[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bubble \bub"ble\, n. cf. d. bobbel, dan. boble, sw. bubbla. cf.
   blob, n.
   1. a thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap
      bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.
      1913 webster

            beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow,
            like bubbles in a late disturbed stream. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. a small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as,
      bubbles rising in champagne or a"erated waters.
      1913 webster

   3. a globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent
      solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.
      1913 webster

   4. a small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for
      testing the strength of spirits.
      1913 webster

   5. the globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            then a soldier . . .
            seeking the bubble reputation
            even in the cannon's mouth.           --shak.
      1913 webster

   7. a person deceived by an empty project; a gull. obs.
      "ganny's a cheat, and i'm a bubble." --prior.
      1913 webster
see also:
blob 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bubble \bub"ble\, v. i. imp.  p. p. bubbled; p. pr.  vb. n.
   bubbling. cf. d. bobbelen, dan. boble. see bubble, n.
   1. to rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated;
      to contain bubbles.
      1913 webster

            the milk that bubbled in the pail.    --tennyson.
      1913 webster

   2. to run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a
      bubbling stream. --pope.
      1913 webster

   3. to sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.
      1913 webster

            at mine ear
            bubbled the nightingale and heeded not. --tennyson.
      1913 webster
see also:
bubbled bubbling bubble 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

bubble
     n 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
     v 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
see also:
house of cards ripple babble guggle burble gurgle 
burp belch eruct 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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