(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.
Fizz
Definition:
(v. i.) To make a hissing sound, as a burning fuse.
(n.) A hissing sound; as, the fizz of a fly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Everyone worked hard, but it is fair to pick out Willian because of his work-rate, quality on the ball, participation in the first goal and quality of the second.” It had been Willian’s fizzed cross, 11 minutes before the break, which Dragovic had nodded inadvertently inside Shovkovskiy’s near post to earn the hosts their initial lead.
(2) Behind the scenes, at least, it appears Anelka has proved a welcome addition to the club's ranks, with Berahino, who scored the visitors' third goal with a fizzing drive, praising the veteran as a positive influence on his fellow frontmen.
(3) He fizzes with energy and ideas, and when asked to describe himself, says “loyal, workaholic”.
(4) A pologies in advance for the lack of fizz, the absence of oomph, the non-appearance of verve in today's Rumour Mill.
(5) Carlgren flapped a Luke Garbutt corner to the edge of the box and the Manchester United midfielder chested it down before sending a fizzing volley back past the Sweden goalkeeper.
(6) 'Portland, Oregon and sloe gin fizz, if that ain't love then tell me what is, uh huh…" Best name in the league... You're not fooling anyone Simon.
(7) It’s as though you went out one warm evening – an evening fizzing with delicious potential – you went out for just one drink… and woke up two days later in a skip.
(8) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
(9) With the exception of a Junior Stanislas shot that fizzed wide in the 66th minute, they could not create the same attacking verve they had previously shown.
(10) Yet it still felt vaguely surprising when Yaya Touré shrugged himself from his own fitful display – occasionally at his brutish best, just as often rather sluggish, and nothing like the player who rampaged in this arena as City all but claimed the title last April – to fizz in a riposte 12 minutes from time, but there was to be no relief at the end.
(11) Liverpool were irresistible for a golden period after the interval, which climaxed in Sadio Mané, the £30m signing from Southampton, fizzing home their fourth goal.
(12) Dukureh fizzes with energy: “Just seeing how much passion there is, how we all want this change – it’s good for me,” she says.
(13) He denies his team-mates look to him as England’s main man – “We have a lot of players in this squad that have done well this season for their clubs; I am just one of them” – but on the occasions he was able to find space on the ball against Portugal he proved his threat, with one fizzing effort from distance particularly troubling José Sá in the Portugal goal.
(14) When we were little, she was always tempting us with sugary treats: a bottomless Smarties bin and her legendary coke floats – a lump of vanilla ice-cream fizzing in a glass of cold cola.
(15) The West Ham United forward gave the hosts a 2-1 victory with his goal from outside the area, which he sent fizzing into the top corner with his left foot, and when he was substituted in stoppage time he could not hold back the tears.
(16) Saints sweep upfield, and Rodriguez has the Liverpool defence jogging backwards in impotent panic, but with options either side, he fizzes a useless low shot wide left.
(17) Barcelona started as they meant to continue, fizzing the ball across the turf and carrying the match to their opponents.
(18) In normal circumstances the Westminster village would already be fizzing with speculation about George Osborne’s eighth budget , which he will deliver nine days hence.
(19) Alejandro Faurlin fizzed a low shot wide after swivelling near the penalty spot.
(20) He was 36 yards out but his hard, flat shot fizzed past a poorly positioned wall, seeming to swish slightly, almost imperceptibly right then left then right again, like the tailfin of a dolphin.