(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.
Gaseous
Definition:
(a.) In the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an aeriform fluid.
(a.) Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous.
Example Sentences:
(1) The use of gaseous insecticides in the chemical control of T. infestans is discussed.
(2) The DCM sampler is expected to contribute to public health impact assessments by facilitating detailed determinations of the identities, compositions, concentrations, sources, formation mechanisms, and biological activity of environmental toxicants in gaseous atmospheres.
(3) The causes were: restricted respiratory movements due to pain, compression of the lungs or pathological changes in the injured lung, and they affected the normal gaseous exchange in a variety of ways.
(4) Blood gaseous composition, mechanisms controlling hemoglobin affinity to oxygen and hemoglobin effects of a single captopril dose were assessed in 124 patients with chronic heart failure (CHF).
(5) In case of B. cinerea, the effect of the volatile and gaseous exudates of the germinating seeds of all plants used on the fungal spore germination differed according to both the sugar and nitrogen source absorbed.
(6) The physiological measurements were arterial oxygen saturation, heart rate, ventilatory frequency, and gaseous analysis in the mask.
(7) This method offers the possibility of a new approach to study of the mode of action of gaseous aerocontaminants on the respiratory tract and particularly upon phagocytic defences.
(8) This research deals with the gaseous and biochemical changes in the cerebrospinal fluid and their effects on the cerebral blood flow and metabolic rates in the acute stage of brain injury.
(9) About 136 gaseous compounds are analysed in animal house air of which 22 are quantified, only.
(10) These observations indicate that, despite the great variation in the fecal flora among individual mice, it is possible to discover the effects induced by altered gaseous environments.
(11) Different variants of the method are estimated and the optimal conditions of cultivation are described (nutrient medium, gaseous phase, depth of explants' immersion, rate of medium flow, etc).
(12) Suspensions of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Bacillus cereus were continuously sparged with nitrogen to remove gaseous products of nitrate reduction.
(13) These include: (1) atmospheric HCl will most commonly exist in the gaseous form; (2) long-range transport of HCl is probably of limited importance; (3) ambient HCI levels are in the low parts per billion range; (4) irritation of the upper airways appears to be the most sensitive indicator of exposure; (5) such effects are likely to occur only at exposure levels much greater than those measured in ambient air; and (6) future health research should focus on occupationally exposed populations and potentially sensitive subgroups, e.g., asthmatics.
(14) It was established that mildronate produced a positive effect on the hemodynamics and gaseous composition of the blood.
(15) Tests based on the analysis of the gaseous components of expired air have been developed to study intestinal absorption and intermediary metabolism of various nutrients.
(16) The oral strains were able to utilize gaseous hydrogen and to grow in a mineral medium with either nitrate of fumarate as hydrogen acceptor.
(17) Significant variations (p less than .005) were observed for the particleboard mass and gaseous formaldehyde collected between sample runs.
(18) Cultures of the sublines were also maintained with either a gaseous phase of 0-1% oxygen or atmospheric (18%) oxygen.
(19) These observations suggested that animals effectively inhaled both gaseous and particulate phase constituents of cigarette smoke.
(20) The concentration of gaseous sulfur showed always a larger variation coefficient than that of particulate sulfur.