Meaning of Bubble | Babel Free

Definitions

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. Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
   broadly
4. Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
   figuratively
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.
6. The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed.
   figuratively
7. An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
8. Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
   obsolete
9. A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
10. The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
11. A laugh.
    Cockney, slang
12. A Greek.
    Cockney, slang
13. Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
    historical
14. In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
15. The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
16. A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
17. The people who are in this quarantine.
18. Ellipsis of travel bubble.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
19. A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
    slang
20. A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.

Equivalents

Examples

“bubbles in window glass, or in a lens”

“Then a soldier […] / Seeking the bubble reputation / Even in the cannon's mouth”

“real estate bubble”

“dot-com bubble”

“Thanks to the proliferation of semiconductor chips and cell phones—the number of U.S. cell phones grew from essentially zero in 1983 to nearly two hundred million by the end of 2004, and as of 2003 over one billion cell phones were in use worldwide, so by the time the high-tech bubble approached its bursting point in 2000 and 2001, coltan had become an extremely hot commodity.”

“The yawning gap between data-center expenditures and the rest of the economy has caused whispers of bubble to rise to a chorus. […] Rapid construction of canals, railroads, and the fiber-optic cables laid during the dot-com bubble all created frenzies of hype, investment, and financial speculation that crashed markets.”

“Thomas, so often West Brom's most positive attacker down their left side and up against Salgado, twice almost burst the bubble of excitement around the ground but he had two efforts superbly saved by Robinson.”

“He’s wrapped up snugly in a cozy bubble of self-regard, talking for his own sake more than anyone else’s.”

“Citizens of all political persuasions (not to mention members of the Trump administration) can increasingly live in their own news media bubbles, consuming only views similar to their own.”

“Inside the right-wing Facebook bubble, President Trump’s response to Covid-19 has been strong and effective, Joe Biden is barely capable of forming sentences, and Black Lives Matter is a dangerous group of violent looters.”

“"We know we're in a bubble," said one Villager interviewed for the film. "But it's a nice bubble".”

“Later that day, the unit was staffed with only one officer, who was required to stay in the bubble.”

“Gany's a cheat, and I'm a bubble.”

“For no woman, sure, will plead the passion of love for an excuse. This would be to own herself the mere tool and bubble of the man.”

“Are you having a bubble?!”

“Many players tend to play timidly (not play many hands) around the bubble, to keep their chips and last longer in the game.”

“bubble watch”

“"There was an empty room and this is my house," Mark Philip told the Herald. "Where am I supposed to go? Whose bubble am I supposed to infect?"”

“A bare lamp (bulb, globe, 'bubble') radiates light in all directions.”

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