bubble

/ˈbʌb.əl/ · noun

Meaning

A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
(by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
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.
The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed.
To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
To cheat, delude.
To cry, weep.
To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.

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