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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bubble \Bub"ble\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Bubbled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bubbling}.] [Cf. D. bobbelen, Dan. boble. See {Bubble}, noun]
1. To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.
The milk that bubbled in the pail. --Tennyson.
2. To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream. --Pope.
3. To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.
At mine ear Bubbled the nightingale and heeded not. --Tennyson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bubble \Bub"ble\, noun [Cf. D. bobbel, Dan. boble, Sw. bubbla. Cf. {Blob}, noun]
1. A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.
Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow, Like bubbles in a late disturbed stream. --Shak.
2. A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or a["e]rated waters.
3. A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.
4. A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
5. The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
6. Anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble.
Then a soldier . . . Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. --Shak.
7. A person deceived by an empty project; a gull. [Obs.] ''Ganny's a cheat, and I'm a bubble.'' --Prior.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bubble
noun
1: a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
2: a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control; "his proposal was nothing but a house of cards"; "a real estate bubble" [syn: {house of cards}]
3: an impracticable and illusory idea; "he didn't want to burst the newcomer's bubble"
4: a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
verb
1: form, produce, or emit bubbles; "The soup was bubbling"
2: flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling brooks" [syn: {ripple}, {babble}, {guggle}, {burble}, {gurgle}]
3: expel gas from the stomach; "In China it is polite to burp at the table" [syn: {burp}, {belch}, {eruct}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
241 Moby Thesaurus words for "bubble": air, air pocket, airy hope, airy nothing, apparition, autism, babble, ball, balloon, be enthusiastic, bilge, bladder, blain, bleb, blister, blob, blubber, boil, boil over, boll, bolus, boss, bow, brainchild, bubble over, bubble up, bubbles, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burble, burl, button, cahot, carbonation, carry on over, chaff, chimera, china, chine, chip, churn, clump, cobweb, condyle, convex, cork, daydream, deception, delirium, deluded belief, delusion, dereism, dowel, down, dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, droplet, dust, ear, effervesce, effervescence, eggshell, eidolon, ellipsoid, enthuse, ephemera, ephemeral, ephemerid, ephemerides, ephemeris, ether, fairy, false belief, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, feather, ferment, fiction, figment, fizz, fizzle, flange, flap, flue, fluff, foam, froth, fuzz, gall, geoid, glass, glass house, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gnarl, go on over, gob, gobbet, golden dream, gossamer, guggle, gurgle, gush, gush over, hallucination, handle, hill, hiss, house of cards, hump, hunch, ice, idle fancy, ignis fatuus, illusion, imagery, imagination, imagining, insubstantial image, invention, jog, joggle, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lap, lather, lip, loop, lump, maggot, make much of, make-believe, matchwood, mayfly, misbelief, misconception, mist, moil, mole, mote, mountain, myth, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, oblate spheroid, old paper, orb, orbit, orblet, papilloma, parchment, peg, pellet, phantasm, phantom, piecrust, pipe, pipe dream, plash, plop, prolate spheroid, purl, quixotic ideal, rainbow, rave, rave about, rhapsodize, rib, ridge, ring, ripple, romance, rondure, seethe, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion, shadow, shoulder, sick fancy, simmer, slosh, smoke, smolder, snows of yesteryear, sparkle, sphere, spheroid, spherule, spine, spirit, splash, sponge, spume, stir, straw, stud, style, suds, swash, swish, tab, take on over, thick-coming fancies, thin air, thistledown, trick, trill, trip, tubercle, tubercule, unreal hope, utopia, vapor, verruca, vesicle, vision, wale, wart, wash, welt, whim, whimsy, wildest dreams, work, wrong impression
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