Bubble

English Wiktionary

English Wiktionary

The English Wiktionary has a dictionary definition (meanings of a word) for: bubble

Bubble could mean:

Traditional bubbles

• Liquid bubble, a globule of one substance encased in another, usually air in a liquid
  • Soap bubble, a bubble formed by soapy water
  • Antibubble, a droplet of liquid surrounded by a thin film of gas

Arts and Literature

• Bubbles (painting), a painting by Sir John Everett Millais
• Bubbles Yablonsky, the protagonist in a series of mystery novels
• Dome, an architectural element representing the upper half of a sphere
• Speech bubble, a graphic convention used primarily in comics and cartoons
• Bubbles, a monkey in the Dragon Ball series

Economics

• Bubble (economics), a situation where market prices are unsustainably high
  • Dot-com bubble
  • Real estate bubble
  • Stock market bubble
  • "South Sea Bubble"

Film

• The Bubble (1966 film), a science fiction film
• Bubble Boy, a 2001 comedy film directed by Blair Hayes
• Bubble (film), a 2006 improvised thriller directed by Stephen Soderbergh
• The Bubble (2006 film), an Israeli drama about a gay romance

Food and Drink

• Bubble and squeak, a traditional English vegetable dish
• Bubble tea, a Taiwanese beverage
• A colloquial term for sparkling wine, particularly champagne
• Bubble gum, a candy often used to chew and blow bubbles.

Television

• Bubble, a character in the TV series Absolutely Fabulous
• Bubbles, a character in the animated TV series Jabberjaw
• Bubbles (The Powerpuff Girls)
• Bubbles (Trailer Park Boys character)
• Bubbles (The Wire)
• Bubbles the Clown, a doll used in a BBC test card
• Bubbles DeVere, a character in the TV series Little Britain
• Bubbles (The Adventures of Little Carp),an anthropomorphic fish from The Adventures of Little Carp.

Video games

• Bubble Bobble
• Bubbles (video game)
• The main character in the video game Clu Clu Land
• An enemy in the Legend of Zelda video game series

People and animals

• Bubble Eye, a variety of goldfish
• Bubbles (chimpanzee), a chimpanzee who lived with Michael Jackson
• Pamela Harmsworth, Viscountess Rothermere, an English socialite and actress
• William Milbourne James, the child model for the painting and soap advertisement Bubbles
• Beverly Sills, opera singer

Other meanings

• Bubble (automobile), a special sedan also called a Hi-Riser
• Bubble (computing), an error in program execution
• Bubbles (band), a Swedish girl group
• Bubble Act, an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain requiring all joint-stock companies to have a Royal Charter
• Bubble chamber, a particle detector in physics
• Bubble wrap, a packaging material
• Westminster Bubble, a term used to describe isolation among United Kingdom government employees
• A symbol used in logic gate diagrams
• A term used in poker tournaments for the last finishing position before entering the payout structure (See Glossary of poker terms)
• Refers to a college basketball team that has a significant, but not assured, chance to be awarded an at-large bid to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship or NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

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