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The correct spelling is bubble.
How to pronounce bubble
/ˈbʌb.əl/
nounIPA: /ˈbʌb.əl/
Say it like: Bub-ble
The correct spelling is bubble. A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid. For example: "bubbles in window glass, or in a lens"
Usage Examples
“bubbles in window glass, or in a lens”
“dot-com bubble”
“Are you having a bubble?!”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- 2.A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- 3.(by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- 4.Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- 5.A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
verb
- 1.To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- 2.To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- 3.To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- 4.To cheat, delude.
- 5.To cry, weep.
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