What's the difference between babble and bubble?

Babble


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.
  • (v. i.) To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.
  • (v. i.) To talk much; to chatter; to prate.
  • (v. i.) To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones.
  • (v. i.) To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat, as words, in a childish way without understanding.
  • (v. i.) To disclose by too free talk, as a secret.
  • (n.) Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle.
  • (n.) Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Also analogues seem to be the producing of the so-called instinctives as mam(m)a and papa by somewhat older babies which are able to pass over from the babbling into permanent words of the adults' speech in which they persist if used without shifting of sounds since they are produced de novo generation by generation, but they are subordinate to shifting and possible extinction if used in the form of derivatives in the standard language, and some phenomena of the phylogenesis as the survival of less differentiated species contrary to the relatively quick extinction of the highly specialized ones.
  • (2) Then there's me and my buddy Ralph Garman , who does a daily radio show in LA, doing our entertainment podcast Hollywood Babble-On , which is basically just two guys who've worked in showbiz long enough to have informed opinions, sitting around taking the piss out of the entertainment industry.
  • (3) To listen to Gordon Brown this morning was to hear a babble of incoherent assertions, delivered very fast and with striking vigour and confidence, which in no way amount to an intellectual case for power.
  • (4) Phonetic transcriptions of 48 babbling samples from 11 normally hearing subjects, aged 4-18 months, and 39 samples from 14 hearing-impaired (HI) subjects, aged 4-39 months, were analyzed to determine the inventory of consonantal phones for each recording session.
  • (5) Significant monosyllabic-word-list intelligibility improvements are shown in hearing-impaired and in normal-hearing subjects for virtually any environmental noise, including white noise, babble (interfering background conversations), cafeteria noise, high-frequency noise, and low-frequency noise at signal-to-noise ratios to below -20 dB.
  • (6) Furthermore, low-frequency amplification, as used in this study, resulted in no observable degradation in syllable recognition in the presence of multitalker babble.
  • (7) These findings suggest both qualitative and quantitative differences in the babbling of the two groups.
  • (8) Our goal was to illuminate the role of canonical (well-formed syllabic) babbling in the development of speech by mentally retarded children.
  • (9) These findings indicate that for children with specific expressive language delay, vowel babble competes with expressive language, consonantal babble facilitates expressive language, and the length and social responsiveness of babble are independent of expressive language.
  • (10) Thinking of this kind makes Ai not only a great artist, but a thinker of the world's next political and intellectual phase, beyond the turgid babble of contemporary politics.
  • (11) This investigation examined phonetic variation in multisyllable babbling of infants from 0.7 to 0.11.
  • (12) The masking noise is an amplitude-modulated, speech-shaped noise signal, which is designed to simulate a 4-person speech babble in order to assess both the frequency selectivity and the temporal resolution.
  • (13) Acoustic-phonetic differences in the babbling of the two boys were evident in the 8-month sample (the first recording opportunity), and some differences between them became greater over the succeeding samples at 12 and 15 months.
  • (14) Additional testing with a smaller group of patients was carried out with competing noise (speech babble).
  • (15) The role of babbling in language development is not well understood.
  • (16) When both groups listened to speech that had been compressed and presented in a babble, their performance supported a multiplicative distortion theory, with children in the learning disabilities group showing a slightly greater multiplicative effect than the children with no apparent problems.
  • (17) For instance: "Very early experiences need to be rich in touch, face-to-face contact and stimulation through conversation (or reciprocating baby babble).
  • (18) Links between babbling and speech point to innate factors in the ontogeny of spoken language and invite attention to central control mechanisms.
  • (19) For someone who loves art but to whom the art world sounds like babbling in an invented language, this is godsend.
  • (20) Contrary to prevailing accounts of the neurological basis of babbling in language ontogeny, the speech modality is not critical in babbling.

Bubble


Definition:

  • (n.) A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.
  • (n.) A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or aerated waters.
  • (n.) A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.
  • (n.) A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
  • (n.) The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
  • (n.) Anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble.
  • (n.) A person deceived by an empty project; a gull.
  • (n.) To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.
  • (n.) To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream.
  • (n.) To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
  • (2) The survival time of the lambs was markedly shortened with the bubble oxygenator, although much longer than had been anticipated.
  • (3) Some offer a range, depending on whether you think you're a bit of a buff, and know a pinot meunier from a pinot noir and what prestige cuvée actually means or you just want to see a bit of the process and have a nice glass of bubbly at the end of it, before moving on to the next place – touring a pretty corner of France getting slowly, and delightfully, fizzled.
  • (4) Bubbles after N2-He-O2 dives contained substantially more N2 than He (up to 1.9 times more) compared to the dive mixture; bubbles after N2-Ar-O2 dives contained more Ar than N2 (up to 1.8 times more).
  • (5) There was more bubble formation in the eye cup with positively charged than with negatively charged substances.
  • (6) The surface activity of two surfactant preparations, Lipid Extract Surfactant (LES) and Survanta, was examined during adsorption and dynamic compression using a pulsating bubble surfactometer.
  • (7) Private gardens in Belgravia, London, in the middle of a house price bubble.
  • (8) Bubble-free gels as thin as 25 microns can be routinely cast on this device.
  • (9) Following injection at pressures between 2.8 and 26.6 kPa, the mean PO2 of equilibrated saline containing an air bubble was 0.80 kPa higher than the mean value obtained at injection pressures of less than 2.8 kPa.
  • (10) On the point about whether the estate is “viable”: if the alternative is the land beneath it on the open market, for a private developer to pay bubble prices, then nothing is really viable.
  • (11) 'No social housing' boasts luxury London flat advert for foreign investors Read more Only by rebalancing housing provision can we avoid another bursting property bubble.
  • (12) During negative equilibrium gas in the bubble gradually simulates tissue gas with eventual shrinkage of the bubble.
  • (13) And none of them are making money, they are all buying revenue with huge war chests.” Patrick reckoned the 2.0 tech bubble will come to be defined by the unicorn.
  • (14) In summary, weight loss does not result from the gastric bubble alone.
  • (15) Burst your bubble: five conservative articles to read as protests stymie Trump Read more There’s the shrinking minority of Americans who believe he’s doing a good job.
  • (16) The unusual behavior characterized as "bubbling" was interpreted as either thermoregulation or a nectar concentration.
  • (17) Experiments show that the primary source of air bubbles in such a system is the drip chamber.
  • (18) Patients were randomly assigned either to receive the gastric bubble or to have a sham procedure.
  • (19) Training grounds during a World Cup turn out to be a strange little bubble of a world.
  • (20) We all knew from the beginning that Little Mix would be in with a shout for the final rounds, because they were young and possessed of more than a modicum of talent and so no one … old … no matter how talented, would pop their bubble.