different between bubbles vs surf

English

Pronunciation

Noun

bubbles

1. plural of bubble

Noun

bubbles

1. (slang) Sparkling wine; champagne.
   • 2011 Grace Dent "TV OD: Candy Cabs" The Guardian, 9 April 2011:

     my grandest ambition is "pamper time" with "a glass of bubbles" and "some nibbles".

Verb

bubbles

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bubble

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??f/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s?f/
• Rhymes: -??(?)f
• Homophone: serf (in accents with the fern-fir-fur merger)

Etymology

1680s, perhaps from earlier suffe (c. 1590). Unknown, possibly related to sough, or possibly of Indo-Aryan origin, as the word was formerly a reference to the coast of India.The verb is from 1917.

Noun

surf (countable and uncountable, plural surfs)

1. Waves that break on an ocean shoreline.
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     […] perhaps it was the look of the island, with its gray, melancholy woods, and wild stone spires, and the surf that we could both see and hear foaming and thundering on the steep beach […]

   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 5

     'But when the surf fell enough for the boats to get ashore, and Greening held a lantern for me to jump down into the passage, after we had got the side out of the tomb, the first thing the light fell on at the bottom was a white face turned skyward.
2. An instance or session of riding a surfboard in the surf.

3. (Britain, dialect) The bottom of a drain.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

surf (third-person singular simple present surfs, present participle surfing, simple past and past participle surfed)

1. To ride a wave, usually on a surfboard.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To browse the Internet, television, etc.

Translations

Derived terms

• surfer (noun)

Derived terms

• (ride a wave): surfer, surfing, surfboard; crowdsurf, train-surf
• (browse the Internet): channel-surf, counter surf, cybersurf, netsurf, silver surfer

Anagrams

• Furs, furs

French

Noun

surf m (uncountable)

1. surfing

Derived terms

• surf des neiges

Related terms

• surfer
• surfeur
• surfeuse

Italian

Etymology

From English surf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?su?f/, IPA^(key): /s??f/
• Hyphenation: sùrf

Noun

surf m (invariable)

1. (sports) surfing

Derived terms

• surfista
• surfare
• tavola da surf
• windsurf

Spanish

Etymology

From English surf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?su?f/, [?su?f]

• IPA^(key): /?so?f/, [?so?f]

Noun

surf m (uncountable)

1. surfing

Derived terms