different between wash vs bubble

English

Etymology

From Middle English washen, waschen, weschen, from Old English wascan, from Proto-Germanic *waskan?, *watskan? (“to wash, get wet”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“wet; water”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian waaske (“to wash”), West Frisian waskje (“to wash”), Dutch wassen, wasschen (“to wash”), Low German waschen (“to wash”), German waschen (“to wash”), Danish vaske (“to wash”), Norwegian Bokmål vaske (“to wash”), Swedish vaska (“to wash”), Icelandic vaska (“to wash”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /w??/, /w??/
• (Canada, NYC, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /w??/
• (US, intrusive r) IPA^(key): /w???/
• Rhymes: -??
• Rhymes: -??(?)?

Verb

wash (third-person singular simple present washes, present participle washing, simple past and past participle washed)

1. To clean with water.
   • 1917, Lester Angell Round, Harold Locke Lang, Preservation of vegetables by fermentation and salting, page 9

     Wash the vegetables, drain off the surplus water, and pack them in a keg, crock, or other utensil until it is nearly full

   • 1971, Homemaking Handbook: For Village Workers in Many Countries, page 101

     If using celery or okra, wash the vegetables in safe water.

   • 2010, Catherine Abbott, The Everything Grow Your Own Vegetables Book: Your Complete Guide to planting, tending, and harvesting vegetables, Everything Books ?ISBN, page 215

     Wash the vegetables thoroughly; even a little dirt can contain bacteria. Wash vegetables individually under running water.

2. (transitive) To move or erode by the force of water in motion.

3. (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
4. (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.

5. (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
   • [the landscape] washed with a cold, grey mist

6. (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.

7. (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
8. (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
   • 2012, The Economist, Oct 13th 2012 issue, The Jordan and its king: As beleaguered as ever

     The king is running out of ideas as well as cash. His favourite shock-absorbing tactic—to blame his governments and sack his prime ministers—hardly washes.

9. (intransitive) To bear without injury the operation of being washed.

10. (intransitive) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; said of road, a beach, etc.
11. To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
12. To overlay with a thin coat of metal.

13. (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
14. (transitive) To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.

Usage notes

In older works and possibly still in some dialects, wesh and woosh may be found as past tense forms. Washen may be found as a past participle.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

wash (plural washes)

1. The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.

2. A liquid used for washing.
3. A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.

4. The quantity of clothes washed at a time.

5. (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
6. The sound of breaking of the seas, e.g., on the shore.
   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 16, [1]

     […] the wind in the cordage and the wash of the sea helped the more to put them beyond earshot […]

7. The bow wave, wake, or vortex of an object moving in a fluid, in particular:
   1. The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
      • 2003, Guidelines for Managing Wake Wash from High-speed Vessels: Report of Working Group 41 of the Maritime Navigation Commission, PIANC ?ISBN, page 5

        To date, much of the research undertaken on high-speed vessel wake wash has appeared only as unpublished reports for various authorities and management agencies.

   2. The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
   3. The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
8. (nautical) The blade of an oar.
9. Ground washed away to the sea or a river.

   • The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads, […] where rain water hath a long time settled.

10. A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
11. A shallow body of water.
13. In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
    • 1997, Stanley Desmond Smith, et al. Physiological Ecology of North American Desert Plants, Nature

      In some desert-wash systems (which have been termed “xero-riparian”)

    • 1999, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert

      ...though the wash may carry surface water for only a few hours a year.
14. A situation in which losses and gains or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent; a situation in which there is no net change.
15. (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
16. Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
17. In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
18. A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
    • 1793, Bryan Edwards, History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies

      In order to augment the vinosity of the wash, many substances are recommended by Dr. Shaw, such as tartar, nitre, common salt, and the vegetable or mineral acids.

19. A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
20. Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
21. (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.

22. (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
23. (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.

Synonyms

• lavatory

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene)

Anagrams

• Haws, Shaw, Wahs, haws, shaw, shwa, wahs

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)

1. A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.

   Antonym: antibubble

2. A small spherical cavity in a solid material.

3. (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
4. (figuratively) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
5. (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.

6. (figuratively) The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed.

   Synonyms: circumstances, ambience

   Hyponym: filter bubble
7. 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.

8. (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.

9. A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
10. The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
11. (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.

    Synonyms: giraffe, bubble bath

12. (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.

    Synonym: bubble and squeak

13. (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
14. (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)

15. A group of people who are in quarantine together.

Synonyms

• bull (obsolete)

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Translations

Verb

bubble (third-person singular simple present bubbles, present participle bubbling, simple past and past participle bubbled)

1. (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
2. (intransitive, figuratively) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.

   Rage bubbled inside him.

3. (intransitive, figuratively) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
4. (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 […]
5. (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
6. (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.
7. (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.

8. (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
9. (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.
10. (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
11. (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.

12. (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