noun
- A hollow globule of gas (e. G., air or carbon dioxide. )
- A speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control.
- usage: "his proposal was nothing but a house of cards"; "a real estate bubble"
- synonyms: house of cards
- An impracticable and illusory idea.
- usage: "he didn't want to burst the newcomer's bubble"
- A dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic.
verb
- Form, produce, or emit bubbles.
- usage: "The soup was bubbling"
- Flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise.
- usage: "babbling brooks"
- Rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles.
- usage: "bubble to the surface"
- Cause to form bubbles.
- usage: "bubble gas through a liquid"
- Expel gas from the stomach.
- usage: "In China it is polite to burp at the table"
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