The difference between Bubble and Giraffe

When used as nouns, bubble means a spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid, whereas giraffe means a ruminant, of the genus giraffa, of the african savannah with long legs and highly elongated neck, which make it the tallest living animal.


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 Bubble and Giraffe

  1. Bubble as a noun:

    A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.

  2. Bubble as a noun:

    A small spherical cavity in a solid material.

    Examples:

    "bubbles in window glass, or in a lens"

  3. Bubble as a noun:

    Anything resembling a hollow sphere.

  4. 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).

  5. Bubble as a noun (obsolete):

    Someone who has been ‘bubbled' or fooled; a dupe.

  6. Bubble as a noun (figurative):

    The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed; circumstances, ambience.

  7. Bubble as a noun (Cockney rhyming slang):

    a Greek (also: bubble and squeak)

  8. Bubble as a noun:

    A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.

  9. Bubble as a noun:

    The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.

  10. Bubble as a noun:

    Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.

  11. Bubble as a noun (Cockney rhyming slang):

    A laugh (also: bubble bath).

    Examples:

    "Are you having a bubble?!"

  12. Bubble as a noun (computing):

    Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.

  13. 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."

  1. Bubble as a verb (intransitive):

    To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).

  2. Bubble as a verb (intransitive, figurative):

    To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.

    Examples:

    "Rage bubbled inside him."

  3. Bubble as a verb (intransitive, figurative):

    To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.

  4. Bubble as a verb (transitive, archaic):

    To cheat, delude.

  5. Bubble as a verb (intransitive, Scotland, and, Northern England):

    To cry, weep.

  1. Giraffe as a noun:

    A ruminant, of the genus Giraffa, of the African savannah with long legs and highly elongated neck, which make it the tallest living animal; yellow fur patterned with dark spots, often in the form of a network; and two or more short, skin-covered horns, so-called; strictly speaking the horn-like projections are ossicones.

  2. Giraffe as a noun:

    A giraffe unicycle.

  3. Giraffe as a noun (Cockney rhyming slang):

    A laugh.

    Examples:

    "Are you having a giraffe?!"

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