| bubble bath | a bath in which you add something to foam and scent the bath water |
| bubble dance | a solo dance similar to a fan dance except large balloons are used instead of fans |
| bubble shell | marine gastropod mollusk having a very small thin shell |
blister pack
bubble pack | packaging in which a product is sealed between a cardboard backing and clear plastic cover |
| bubble | a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic |
| bubble chamber | an instrument that records the tracks of ionizing particles |
bubble jet printer
bubble-jet printer
bubblejet | a kind of ink-jet printer |
b hookah
narghile
nargileh
sheesha
shisha
chicha
calean
kalian
water pipe
hubble-bubble
hubbly-bubbly | an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water, a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola |
| magnetic bubble memory | a nonvolatile storage device that holds information in the form of bubbles on a thin film of magnetic silicate, no longer used in most computers |
Hubble's law
Hubble law | (astronomy) the generalization that the speed of recession of distant galaxies (the red shift) is proportional to their distance from the observer |
| bubble | an impracticable and illusory idea, he didn't want to burst the newcomer's bubble |
house of cards
bubble | 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 |
| bubble gum | a kind of chewing gum that can be blown into bubbles |
| bubble and squeak | leftover cabbage fried with cooked potatoes and sometimes meat |
| air bubble | a bubble of air |
| bubble | a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide) |
| soap bubble | a bubble formed by a thin soap film |
Hubble
Edwin Hubble
Edwin Powell Hubble | United States astronomer who discovered that (as the universe expands) the speed with which nebulae recede increases with their distance from the observer (-) |
Hubble's constant
Hubble constant
Hubble's parameter
Hubble parameter | (cosmology) the ratio of the speed of recession of a galaxy (due to the expansion of the universe) to its distance from the observer, the Hubble constant is not actually a constant, but is regarded as measuring the expansion rate today |
| bubble gum dermatitis | an allergic contact dermatitis developed around the lips of children who chew bubble gum |
burp
bubble
belch
eruct | expel gas from the stomach, In China it is polite to burp at the table |
| bubble | form, produce, or emit bubbles, The soup was bubbling |
| bubble | cause to form bubbles, bubble gas through a liquid |
bubble over
overflow
spill over | overflow with a certain feeling, The children bubbled over with joy, My boss was bubbling over with anger |
| bubble | rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles, bubble to the surface |
bubble up
intumesce | move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating, also used metaphorically, Gases bubbled up from the earth, Marx's ideas have bubbled up in many places in Latin America |
ripple
babble
guggle
burble
bubble
gurgle | flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise, babbling brooks |