different between bubble vs seethe
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
bubble From the web:
- what bubble tea
- what bubbles in urine mean
- what bubble tea is the best
- what bubbles real name
- what bubble tea should i get
- what bubble tea is vegan
- what bubble means
- what bubble tea has the least calories
seethe
English
Alternative forms
- seeth
Etymology
From Middle English sethen, from Old English s?oþan (“to seethe, boil, cook in a liquid; subject to a fiery ordeal, try as with fire; subject to great pain, afflict, afflict grievously, disturb; prepare food for the mind; subject the mind with occupations; be troubled in mind, brood”), from Proto-Germanic *seuþan? (“to seethe, boil”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?sewt-, *h?sut-, *h?sew- (“to move about, roil, seethe”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si?ð/
- Rhymes: -i?ð
Verb
seethe (third-person singular simple present seethes, present participle seething, simple past seethed or (archaic) sod, past participle seethed or (archaic) sodden)
- (transitive, archaic) To boil.
- 1933, Herbert Danby, The Mishnah, p.289:
- When he had cooked or seethed the Peace-offering, the priest took the sodden shoulder of the ram and one unleavened cake out of the basket and one unleavened wafer and put them upon the hands of the Nazirite and waved them.
- 1960, James Enge, Travellers' Rest:
- “Seethe some of that in Gar Vindisc's good water and bring it to us. Bread, too, as long as you don't make it from shellbacks.”
- 1933, Herbert Danby, The Mishnah, p.289:
- (intransitive, of a liquid) To boil vigorously.
- (intransitive, of a liquid) To foam in an agitated manner, as if boiling.
- (intransitive, of a person, figuratively) To be in an agitated or angry mental state, as if boiling.
- (intransitive, of a place, figuratively) To buzz with activity.
- 2011, Kate Kingsley, Kiss & Break Up (page 201)
- Shock Box was the skankiest bar in Hasted, complete with a cheesy jukebox, cheap pints, and a sweaty club in the basement that seethed every weekend with a superhorny boarding-school crowd.
- 2011, Kate Kingsley, Kiss & Break Up (page 201)
Derived terms
- forseethe
Related terms
- suds
Translations
Anagrams
- sheete
seethe From the web:
- seethe what is the meaning
- what is seether veruca salt
- what is seether dangerous about
- what is seether broken about
- what is seether the gift about
- what is seether fake it about
- what is seether fine again about
- what is seether remedy about
you may also like
- bubble vs seethe
- seethe vs smoulder
- steep vs seethe
- seethe vs sparkle
- frog vs him
- mom vs frog
- frog vs monkey
- lions vs frog
- frog vs cake
- frog vs description
- imagery vs frog
- frog vs gay
- crocodile vs frog
- frog vs screwdriver
- sizzle vs squeak
- sizzle vs bristle
- splash vs sizzle
- boil vs sizzle
- fume vs sizzle
- rant vs sizzle