Meaning

19 senses
  1. A spherically contained volume of air or other gas in a liquid, commonly a soapy liquid.

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    пузы́рьpuzýrʹ

    пузи́рpuzýr, бу́льбашкаbúlʹbaška, бу́лькаbúlʹka

    a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)

  2. A small spherical cavity in a solid material.

    bubbles in window glass, or in a lens

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    пузы́рьpuzýrʹ, пузырёкpuzyrjók

  3. (broadly)Anything resembling a hollow sphere.

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    пузы́рьpuzýrʹ, пузырёкpuzyrjók

    бу́льбашкаbúlʹbaška

  4. (figuratively)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.

    real estate bubble

    dot-com bubble

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    пузы́рьpuzýrʹ

  6. (figuratively)The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed; especially, a homogeneous atmosphere in which subjects are spared exposure to culture or ideas different from their own.

    пузы́рьpuzýrʹ

  7. An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.

  8. A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.

  9. The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.

  10. (Cockney, slang)A laugh.

    Are you having a bubble?!

  11. (Cockney, slang)A Greek.

  12. (historical)Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.

Examples

140 sentences
  1. Don't burst my bubble.

    Не руйнуй мою мрію.

    ruНе разрушай мою мечту.

    deZerstöre nicht meinen Traum!

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  2. Tom is chewing bubble gum.

    Том жує жувальну гумку.

    ruТом жуёт жвачку.

    deTom kaut einen Kaugummi.

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  3. Have you ever taken a bubble bath?

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  4. How often do you take a bubble bath?

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  5. Tom's problem is that he lives in his own bubble.

    ruПроблема Тома в том, что он живёт в своём собственном мирке.

    deToms Problem ist, dass er in seiner eigenen kleinen Welt lebt.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
spherically contained volume of air or other gas:
Русский
By meaning 2
spherically contained volume of air or other gas:
small spherical cavity in a solid:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
spherically contained volume of air or other gas:

Origin

Partly imitative, also influenced by burble. Compare Middle Dutch bobbe (“bubble”) > Dutch

Partly imitative, also influenced by burble. Compare Middle Dutch bobbe (“bubble”) > Dutch bubbel (“bubble”), Low German bubbel (“bubble”), Danish boble (“bubble”), Swedish bubbla (“bubble”). The word was first used in its economic sense in association with the collapse of the South Sea Company in 1720, based on the metaphor of an inflated soap bubble bursting.

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