The difference between Bubble and Void

When used as nouns, bubble means a spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid, whereas void means an empty space.

When used as verbs, bubble means to produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling), whereas void means to make invalid or worthless.

Void is also adjective with the meaning: containing nothing.

check bellow for the other definitions of Bubble and Void

  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. Void as an adjective:

    Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.

  2. Void as an adjective:

    Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.

  3. Void as an adjective:

    Being without; destitute; devoid.

  4. Void as an adjective:

    Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.

  5. Void as an adjective:

    Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.

    Examples:

    "[[null and void]]"

  6. Void as an adjective:

    Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.

  7. Void as an adjective (computing, programming, of a [[function]] or [[method]]):

    That does not return a value.

  1. Void as a noun:

    An empty space; a vacuum.

    Examples:

    "Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go."

  2. Void as a noun (astronomy):

    An extended region of space containing no galaxies

  3. Void as a noun (materials science):

    A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.

  4. Void as a noun (fluid mechanics):

    A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.

  1. Void as a verb (transitive):

    To make invalid or worthless.

    Examples:

    "He voided the check and returned it."

  2. Void as a verb (transitive, medicine):

    To empty.

    Examples:

    "'void one’s bowels"

  3. Void as a verb:

    To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.

    Examples:

    "to void excrement"

  4. Void as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To withdraw, depart.

  5. Void as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.

    Examples:

    "to void a table"

  1. Void as a noun (now, _, rare, historical):

    A voidee.

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