bubble

«bubble» in Mova's school dictionary: a thin round ball of liquid with air or gas inside, like… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a bubble, bubbles); verb (bubble, bubbles, bubbled, bubbling)

meaning for a pupil

1) A bubble is a thin round ball of liquid with air or gas inside, like a soap bubble. tree →

2) A bubble is also a ball of air or gas inside a liquid, like the bubbles in fizzy drinks or boiling water. tree →

3) To bubble means to make bubbles, like soup bubbling in a pan. tree →

4) To bubble with a feeling means to be full of it. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, bubbles show gas: when water boils, bubbles of steam rise; fizzy drinks have bubbles of carbon dioxide; plants under water make oxygen bubbles. Soap bubbles show rainbow colours and are always round. In everyday life, children blow bubbles; in safety, a bubbling pan is hot. In comics, words go in speech bubbles. Phrases: blow bubbles, bubble bath, speech bubble, bubble wrap, burst someone's bubble.

examples

• The children blew bubbles in the garden. tree →
• Bubbles rose to the top of the fizzy drink. tree →
• The soup is bubbling; turn the heat down. tree →
• Write what the character says in the speech bubble. tree →
• I had a bubble bath with lots of foam. tree →
• Bubbles in boiling water are full of steam. tree →
• She was bubbling with excitement. tree →
• The bubble floated up and popped. tree →
• The children stoop towards him, and the bubble bursts. tree →

note

Regular verb: bubbled, bubbling. Adjective: bubbly (also means lively and cheerful). «Burst someone's bubble» means to spoil their happy idea. Soap bubbles are round because that shape holds the air with the least skin.

In the corpora

• Fish have no eyelids, but many rest by slowing down and floating still; some parrotfish sleep in a bubble of slime.
• Baking sets the bubbles, and that is why bread has holes.
• That is a living fungus at work, eating sugar and breathing out gas bubbles.
• The star-nosed mole swims in North American wetlands and smells underwater by blowing little bubbles onto things and sniffing them back in.
• Later breeders chose odd shapes too, such as bubble eyes and double tails.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bubble» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.