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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bubble/#m1)

2) A bubble is also a ball of air or gas inside a liquid, like the bubbles in fizzy drinks or boiling water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bubble/#m2)

3) To bubble means to make bubbles, like soup bubbling in a pan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bubble/#m3)

4) To bubble with a feeling means to be full of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bubble/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bubble/#x1)
- Bubbles rose to the top of the fizzy drink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bubble/#x2)
- The soup is bubbling; turn the heat down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bubble/#x3)
- Write what the character says in the speech bubble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bubble/#x4)
- I had a bubble bath with lots of foam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bubble/#x5)
- Bubbles in boiling water are full of steam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bubble/#x6)
- She was bubbling with excitement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bubble/#x7)
- The bubble floated up and popped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bubble/#x8)
- The children stoop towards him, and the bubble bursts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bubble/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/55-sleep-and-hibernation/15/)
- [Baking sets the bubbles, and that is why bread has holes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/4/)
- [That is a living fungus at work, eating sugar and breathing out gas bubbles.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes/2/)
- [The star-nosed mole swims in North American wetlands and smells underwater by blowing little bubbles onto things and sniffing them back in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish/8/)
- [Later breeders chose odd shapes too, such as bubble eyes and double tails.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bubble» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bubble/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.