The difference between Antibubble and Bubble
When used as nouns, antibubble means a droplet of liquid surrounded by a thin film of gas, formed when liquid drops or flows turbulently into the same or another liquid, whereas bubble means a spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
Bubble is also verb with the meaning: to produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
check bellow for the other definitions of Antibubble and Bubble
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Antibubble as a noun:
A droplet of liquid surrounded by a thin film of gas, formed when liquid drops or flows turbulently into the same or another liquid.
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Bubble as a noun:
A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
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Bubble as a noun:
A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
Examples:
"bubbles in window glass, or in a lens"
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Bubble as a noun:
Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
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Bubble as a noun (economics):
A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts (eg the South Sea Bubble).
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Bubble as a noun (obsolete):
Someone who has been ‘bubbled' or fooled; a dupe.
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Bubble as a noun (figurative):
The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed; circumstances, ambience.
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Bubble as a noun (Cockney rhyming slang):
a Greek (also: bubble and squeak)
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Bubble as a noun:
A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
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Bubble as a noun:
The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
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Bubble as a noun:
Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
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Bubble as a noun (Cockney rhyming slang):
A laugh (also: bubble bath).
Examples:
"Are you having a bubble?!"
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Bubble as a noun (computing):
Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
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Bubble as a noun (poker):
The point in a poker tournament when the last player without a prize loses all their chips and leaves the game, leaving only players that are going to win prizes. (e.g., if the last remaining 9 players win prizes, then the point when the 10th player leaves the tournament)
Examples:
"Many players tend to play timidly (not play many hands) around the bubble, to keep their chips and last longer in the game."
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Bubble as a verb (intransitive):
To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
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Bubble as a verb (intransitive, figurative):
To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
Examples:
"Rage bubbled inside him."
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Bubble as a verb (intransitive, figurative):
To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
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Bubble as a verb (transitive, archaic):
To cheat, delude.
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Bubble as a verb (intransitive, Scotland, and, Northern England):
To cry, weep.