(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.
Frothy
Definition:
(superl.) Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy.
(superl.) Not firm or solid; soft; unstable.
(superl.) Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a frothy speaker or harangue.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said: "A frothy pint of ale and a Snickers from the fridge."
(2) Ian Gordon, banks analyst at Investec, said: "We currently see no relative or absolute support for RBS' 'frothy' valuation; a correction is due.
(3) A man aged 54 years presented multiple symptoms (acroparesthesia, familial deafness, cardiomyopathy, diarrhea, adenopathy with infiltration of frothy macrophages, pancytopenia with a dense marrow, chronic meningitis, renal failure) associated with intermittent fever, with feverish attacks and a temperature of 40 degrees C, and with a severe biologic febrile syndrome.
(4) June 26, 2014 9.05am BST Ilya Spivak, currency strategist at DailyFX, predicts the Bank of England will announce measures to cool the "frothy" UK property market this morning ( from 10.30am ) Here's why: The pace of housing price increases accelerated to a year-on-year pace of 11.1 percent in May according to data from the Nationwide Building Society, marking a seven-year high.
(5) Macroscopic lesions that were found in turkeys, but not in chickens, consisted of pallor of the intestinal tract and distension of the cecum with frothy or nonfrothy fluid contents.
(6) The first of April is normally a day of frothy fun, where newspapers and brands compete to produce the best jokes and the worst puns to fool their readers.
(7) A patient is described who showed typical features of alveolar cell carcinoma, including production of a huge amount of clear frothy lung liquid (as much as 4 liter per day), diffuse dissemination of nodular lesions throughout the lung, and tall columnar cell proliferation outlining the alveolar walls uniformly without architectural destruction in the terminal lung unit.
(8) The system had suffered many attacks over the years, from politicians talking of a "welfare trap", government means-testing, and frothy-mouthed journalists reporting isolated cases of benefit fraud.
(9) 2 In another bowl, whisk the egg, buttermilk and vanilla until frothy.
(10) This contained a lot of false and frothy promises to “initiate an inclusive process of national debate …” blah, blah, blah.
(11) Now, five years later, signs of frothiness, if not outright bubbles, are reappearing in housing markets in Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, France, Germany, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and, back for an encore, the UK (well, London).
(12) The patient developed clinical signs of pulmonary oedema very shortly after the end of the anaesthetic (tachypnoea, cyanosis, a decrease in oxygen saturation when FIO2 < 1, pink frothy secretions in the endotracheal tube).
(13) The new word was defined as "the frothy mixture of lube and faecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex".
(14) But most people don’t have the option of popping over to a local farm to purchase a frothy pint or two over the gate.
(15) Physical examination revealed no vaginal discharge in 18 (48.6%) of the women, 12 (22.4%) cases had frothy leukorrhea in women with trichomoniasis.
(16) During the fourth week, sudden worsening took place with attacks of dyspnea, cyanosis and frothy sputum.
(17) Even China’s bullish securities regulators admitted markets had become frothy before they turned down.
(18) Third, bubbles are a sure sign of economic fragility, and the housing market, particularly in London, is well into frothy territory.
(19) I’ve thought about writing novels in the past, and I’ve always been blocked by the fact that I’m not particularly deep or wise or anything else – and what really helped to unblock it was [the idea that] you can write a light, frothy entertainment that’s got a certain tone, and if you hold the tone all the way through, you’ve got a book.” On tape, later, Marr’s own tone – authoritative, quick, clear, offering just enough to obscure what he doesn’t want to give away – is the same as always, but it is striking how different he seems in person from the familiar figure on the TV news, gesticulating enthusiastically in front of the palace of Westminster, riding waves of complex and entertaining metaphors.
(20) Such frothy excess hasn't been seen since the peak of the late 1980s boom," said Gosling.