A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
bubbles in window glass, or in a lens
Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
Partly imitative, also influenced by burble. Compare Middle Dutch bobbe (“bubble”) > Dutch bubbel (“bubble”), Low German bubbel (“bubble”), Danish boble (“bubble”), Swedish bubbla (“bubble”). The word...
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Rage bubbled inside him.
To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
The target of this event is the most deeply nested common ancestor of all changes that occurred in the document, and it bubbles up the document tree […]