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splash
English
Etymology
Probably an alteration of plash.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /splæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Noun
splash (plural splashes)
- (onomatopoeia) The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.
- I heard a splash when the rock landed in the pond.
- A small amount of liquid.
- Add the tomato purée and cook for a further 4-5 minutes. Add a splash of whisky to the pan, scraping up any browned bits from the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon to deglaze. - recipe, Grilled fillet of halibut and langoustine tails with smoked haddock risotto and shellfish froth by Chris Morrison
- I felt a splash of rain, so I put up my hood.
- I felt a splash of water on my leg as the car drove into the nearby puddle.
- A small amount (of color).
- The painter put a splash of blue on the wall to make it more colorful
- A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid.
- There was a visible splash on his pants after he went to the bathroom.
- An impact or impression.
- The new movie made quite a splash upon its release.
- (computing, informal) A splash screen.
- 2008, Ron Carswell, Heidi Webb, Guide to Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and Virtual Server 2005
- When the splash appears with Please wait, wait for Windows to start configuration.
- 2008, Ron Carswell, Heidi Webb, Guide to Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and Virtual Server 2005
- (wrestling) A body press; a move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top turnbuckle, landing stomach first across an opponent lying on the ground below.
- (dated) A cosmetic powder to whiten the complexion.
Synonyms
- (sound of liquid): plash
Translations
Verb
splash (third-person singular simple present splashes, present participle splashing, simple past and past participle splashed)
- To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
- 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “She Moves On”, The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.
- I know the reason I feel so blessed / My heart still splashes inside my chest
- 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “She Moves On”, The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.
- To disperse a fluid suddenly; to splatter.
- (transitive) To hit or expel liquid at.
- To create an impact or impression; to print, post or publicize prominently.
- (transitive) To spend (money).
- (transitive, nautical) To launch a ship.
- 1999 David M. Kennedy, "Victory at Sea", Atlantic Monthly, March 1999:
- In the two years following Midway, Japanese shipyards managed to splash only six additional fleet carriers. The United States in the same period added seventeen, along with ten medium carriers and eighty-six escort carriers.
- 1999 David M. Kennedy, "Victory at Sea", Atlantic Monthly, March 1999:
- (military, slang) To shoot down (an aircraft) over water.
- (transitive, MLE) To stab (a person), causing them to bleed.
Translations
Derived terms
Related terms
- splish
- splosh
Portuguese
Etymology
Probably borrowed from English splash.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /is.?pl?.?/, /is.?pl?.?i/
Interjection
splash
- (onomatopoeia) splash.
Synonyms
- chuá
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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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