What's the difference between bubble and bumble?

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.

Bumble


Definition:

  • (n.) The bittern.
  • (v. i.) To make a hollow or humming noise, like that of a bumblebee; to cry as a bittern.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eye-to-eye, the bumbling bonhomie appeared to be a lacquer of likability over a living obelisk of corporate power.
  • (2) Just a stepover here, a Cruyff turn there, and his opponent would be destroyed ... Only in real life, Boruc stumbled and bumbled and Olivier Giroud pounced to score.
  • (3) The Palestinian comedy team Watan a Watar have enjoyed huge success with their take on an Isis propaganda video featuring a roadblock and a quiz: incorrect answers mean instant execution but these jolly, bumbling jihadis win points to get them to Paradise.
  • (4) Wallace is a hopeless deadpan dropout, a loser in love and a bumbling muddle.
  • (5) Accompanied by prolonged silences, it makes the recipients go weak at the knees and blurt out bumbling apologies, as we saw with Nixon's cathartic admission – and then, of course, forgiveness.
  • (6) Even the suggestion that Christie might enter the race will serve to upend it, with current front-runner Rick Perry causing dismay among some Republicans after a catalogue of bumbling debate performances.
  • (7) The kidnapping of more than 300 schoolgirls by Boko Haram threw the international spotlight on the rebels, but also highlighted a bumbling government approach to the public.
  • (8) And then they find a further delay, some kind of situation in the outfield with Eranga, who's had some kind of affair thrown at him from the stand; Bumble thinks it's a piece of cheese, Wensleydale, no doubt.
  • (9) Deep down, I believe the character really has bumbled her way through a mafia career, using her naivety as protection.
  • (10) Better, in fact, than Romney's bumbling foreign adventures , which rather than providing voters with a storyline on which they could take a practiced ideological stand, was likely to be seen as a mostly embarrassing, ultimately unrelatable foreign policy glad-hand tour, set to Yackety Sax .
  • (11) 3.50pm BST Michael Parkinson is in with Gower and Bumble.
  • (12) Allozyme variation at an average of 37.3 loci was assessed in queens of 16 Bombus and 2 Psithyrus bumble bee species from North America.
  • (13) The film shuffles interconnecting storylines concerning three Manhattan sisters: the warm, well-meaning Hannah (Mia Farrow) is married to the bumbling Elliot (Michael Caine), who is in turn attracted to her sister, Lee (Barbara Hershey).
  • (14) More people who voted Labour in 2015 would choose Theresa May as prime minister than Jeremy Corbyn Having endlessly bumbled around the central questions of Brexit, Labour has now come up with six “tests” for the government’s eventual agreement.
  • (15) As I keep saying, the IMF, ECB and Eurogroup aren’t supervillains and they aren’t bumbling incompetents.
  • (16) Click here for the Paddington trailer There was a swift online reaction to the still image from the film pictured above, in which Paddington looks less like the harmlessly bumbling bear of Michael Bond's books and more a malevolent creature, disturbingly sentient enough to dress itself in a duffel coat.
  • (17) Bumbling out of the shop with far too many sausage rolls?
  • (18) Jonathan was in constant demand whenever a comic toff or a bumbling cleric was called for on TV.
  • (19) He will be the man who wrecked his premiership by bumbling into a referendum commitment that he didn’t originally want to pledge and then bungling his country out of the EU.
  • (20) Clinal variation in colour morph frequency in the bumble bee Bombus melanopygusis analysed.

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