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bubble
English
Etymology
Partly imitative, also influenced by burble. Compare Middle Dutch bobbe (“bubble”) > Dutch bubbel (“bubble”), Low German bubbel (“bubble”), Danish boble (“bubble”), Swedish bubbla (“bubble”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?b.?l/
- Rhymes: -?b?l
Noun
bubble (plural bubbles)
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- Antonym: antibubble
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- (figuratively) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- (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.
- 2007, Elizabeth Grossman, High Tech Trash, Island Press (?ISBN), page 46:
- Thanks to the proliferation of semiconductor chips and cell phones—the number of U.S. cell phones grew from essentially zero in 1983 to nearly two hundred million by the end of 2004, and as of 2003 over one billion cell phones were in use worldwide, so by the time the high-tech bubble approached its bursting point in 2000 and 2001, coltan had become an extremely hot commodity.
- 2007, Elizabeth Grossman, High Tech Trash, Island Press (?ISBN), page 46:
- (figuratively) The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed.
- Synonyms: circumstances, ambience
- Hyponym: filter bubble
- An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
- 1998, District of Columbia Appropriations for 1998: Hearings
- Later that day, the unit was staffed with only one officer, who was required to stay in the bubble.
- 1998, District of Columbia Appropriations for 1998: Hearings
- (obsolete) Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
- 1709, Matthew Prior, Cupid and Ganymede
- Gany's a cheat, and I'm a bubble.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1979, p. 15:
- For no woman, sure, will plead the passion of love for an excuse. This would be to own herself the mere tool and bubble of the man.
- 1709, Matthew Prior, Cupid and Ganymede
- A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- Synonyms: giraffe, bubble bath
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
- Synonym: bubble and squeak
- (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
- (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)
- A group of people who are in quarantine together.
Synonyms
- bull (obsolete)
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
bubble (third-person singular simple present bubbles, present participle bubbling, simple past and past participle bubbled)
- (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- (intransitive, figuratively) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- Rage bubbled inside him.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- (transitive, archaic) To cheat, delude.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 443:
- No, no, friend, I shall never be bubbled out of my religion in hopes only of keeping my place under another government […]
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 443:
- (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
- (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- 1942, McCall’s, volume 69, page 94:
- Groggily her mind went back through the long hours to 10 P.M. She had fed Junior, bubbled him, diped him—according to plan.
- 1942, McCall’s, volume 69, page 94:
- (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- 1922, Conal O’Riordan, In London: The Story of Adam and Marriage, page 164:
- It seemed to Adam that he felt the blood in his toes creeping up his legs and body until it reached his brain where, finding it could go no farther, it bubbled him into dumbness: it added to his confusion to know that he looked as if some such accident had befallen his circulation.
- 2011, Tim O’Brien, Northern Lights, page 201:
- The frothing sensation bubbled him all over, a boiling without heat or any sound or light.
- 1922, Conal O’Riordan, In London: The Story of Adam and Marriage, page 164:
- (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
- 1929, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 201, page 50:
- She bubbled her lips at Junior and wrinkled her eyes.
- 1929, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 201, page 50:
- (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
- (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
- 2019, Crash Course for the ACT, 6th Edition: Your Last-Minute Guide to Scoring High, page 15:
- You don’t want to go back and forth between the test booklet and your answer sheet to bubble your answers.
- 2019, Crash Course for the ACT, 6th Edition: Your Last-Minute Guide to Scoring High, page 15:
- (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:bubble.
Derived terms
- bubble over
- bubble under
- bubble up
Translations
References
- bubble at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [4]
- Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
- A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
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dot
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: d?t, IPA(key): /d?t/
- (US) enPR: dät, IPA(key): /d?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English *dot, from Old English dott (“a dot, point”), from Proto-Germanic *duttaz (“wisp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dot, Dotte (“a clump”), Dutch dot (“lump, knot, clod”), Low German Dutte (“a plug”), dialectal Swedish dott (“a little heap, bunch, clump”).
Noun
dot (plural dots)
- A small, round spot.
- a dot of colour
- (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
- A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in ?, ?, ?, ?, ?.
- (mathematics) A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part, for indicating multiplication or a scalar product, or for various other purposes.
- One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
- (obsolete) A lump or clot.
- Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
- a dot of a child
- (cricket, informal) A dot ball.
- (MLE) buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun
- (MLE) Clipping of dotty (“shotgun”).
Synonyms
- (small spot): speck, spot
- (at the end of a sentence or abbreviation): full stop (British), period (US), point
- (as a diacritic): tittle (over the letters i and j)
- (mathematics, in a decimal): decimal point
- (in Morse code): dit
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
dot (third-person singular simple present dots, present participle dotting, simple past and past participle dotted)
- (transitive) To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
- His jacket was dotted with splashes of paint.
- (transitive) To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
- Dot your is and cross your ts.
- To mark by means of dots or small spots.
- to dot a line
- To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
- to dot a landscape with cottages
- (colloquial) To punch (a person).
Synonyms
- stipple
Derived terms
Preposition
dot
- Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.
- The work is equal to F dot ?x.
Coordinate terms
- cross
- ·
Translations
Etymology 2
From French dot.
Alternative forms
- dote
Noun
dot (plural dots)
- (US, Louisiana) A dowry.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 53
- "Have you the pictures still?" I asked.
- "Yes; I am keeping them till my daughter is of marriageable age, and then I shall sell them. They will be her dot."
- 1927, Anna Bowman Dodd, Talleyrand: the Training of a Statesman:
- As a bride, Madame de Talleyrand had brought a small dot of fifteen thousand francs to the family fund.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 53
Related terms
- dotal
- dotation
Anagrams
- DTO, ODT, OTD, TOD, Tod, tod
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *dh?tim, accusative of Proto-Indo-European *dh? (“to put”). Alternatively it might represent a univerbation of do +? të.
Verb
dot
- "Can't" in negative sentences and "can" in interrogative ones. Can be added in sentences with mund to add emphasis.
Related terms
- do
- të
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin d?te
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?d?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
dot m (plural dots)
- dowry
- gift, talent
Synonyms
- (gift): do
Further reading
- “dot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?t/
- Hyphenation: dot
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
dot m or f (plural dotten, diminutive dotje n)
- a tuft, a bunch, a clump
- (informal) a lot, a large amount
- een dot geld - a lot of money
- cutie, something small and adorable
- darling, sweetie (almost always used in its diminutive form - dotje)
- a swab
Synonyms
- (cutie): kleintje
- (darling): schatje, liefje
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dos. Doublet of dose.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
dot f (plural dots)
- dowry, marriage portion
Derived terms
- coureur de dot
Further reading
- “dot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Irish
Alternative forms
- dod
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d???t??/
Contraction
dot (triggers lenition)
- (Munster) Contraction of do do (“to your sg, for your sg”).
Related terms
Klamath-Modoc
Alternative forms
- tút (Gatschet)
Noun
dot
- tooth
References
- Barker, M. A. R. (1963). Klamath Dictionary. University of California Publications in Linguistics 31. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press.
- Gatschet, Samuel S. (1890). The Klamath Indians of southwestern Oregon. Volume II, Part II. United States Government Printing Office.
Latvian
Etymology
From earlier *duoti, *duotie, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *d??tei, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh?ti (“to give”). The present tense forms are new formations, replacing the old athematic forms (still attested in dialectal forms like domu (“I give”) instead of dodu). The past tense forms are from earlier *davu (cf. Lithuanian davia?); the e was extended from the past active participle form devis (< *devens < *de-d-wens).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [duôt]
Verb
dot (tr., no conj., pres. dodu, dod, dod, past devu)
- to give (to hand to someone, so that s/he can have it)
- to give, to provide (to allow the use of a material object, to free a place for someone else's use)
- (colloquial) to give in marriage
- (colloquial) to allow (e.g., a son or daughter) to work, to be employed
- to give, to grant, to procure, to secure (a state, circumstances)
- to give, to dedicate, to donate, to provide (at birth)
- (dated sense) to allow, to permit
- to give (to express orally or in writing)
- to give (to add to a text)
- (mathematics, usually in the past passive participle form dots) to be given, to be known from the start
- (of physical or mental states) to give (to create, to inspire, to generate)
- (of results, effects) to give, to provide, to be the cause (of something)
- (of material objects, values; also of spiritual or cultural values) to give, to produce, to create
- (colloquial) to give, to pay
- (colloquial, a person's age, by sight) to give, to estimate as
- (colloquial) to hit
- (colloquial) to shoot, to give a shot
Conjugation
Derived terms
- prefixed verbs:
- other derived terms:
- dev?js
- devums
- doties
References
Luxembourgish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /do?t/
Verb
dot
- inflection of doen:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Malay
Noun
dot (plural dot-dot, informal 1st possessive dotku, impolite 2nd possessive dotmu, 3rd possessive dotnya)
- nipple, teat
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
From Proto-Iranian *dugd? (compare Persian ????? (do?tar), ???? (do?t), Pashto ???? (lur), Avestan ????????????????????????????? (dug?dar)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *d?ug?d?? (compare Sanskrit ?????? (duhit?), from *d?u??itr-), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ugh?t?r (compare Armenian ?????? (dustr), Greek ???????? (thygatéra), Lithuanian dukt?, Russian ???? (do??), English daughter).
Noun
dot f
- daughter
Related terms
- dotmam
- keç
- pis
Northern Sami
Etymology
From Proto-Samic *totë.
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /?to?h(t)/
Determiner
d?t
- yonder, that way over there (very far from speaker and listener)
Inflection
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?[5], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *daudaz.
Adjective
d?t
- dead
Inflection
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
- d?do
Descendants
- Middle Dutch: dôot
- Dutch: dood
- Afrikaans: dood
- Limburgish: doead
- Dutch: dood
Further reading
- “d?t”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
Compare German tot, Dutch dood, English dead, Swedish död, Icelandic dauður.
Adjective
dot
- dead
Volapük
Noun
dot (nominative plural dots)
- doubt
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