Bubble \Bub"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bubbled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bubbling}.] [Cf. D. bobbelen, Dan. boble. See {Bubble}, n.] 1. To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.
The milk that bubbled in the pail. --Tennyson.
2. To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream. --Pope.
3. To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.
At mine ear Bubbled the nightingale and heeded not. --Tennyson.
Bubble \Bub"ble\, n. [Cf. D. bobbel, Dan. boble, Sw. bubbla. Cf. {Blob}, n.] 1. A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.
Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow, Like bubbles in a late disturbed stream. --Shak.
2. A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or a["e]rated waters.
3. A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.
4. A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
5. The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
6. Anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble.
Then a soldier . . . Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. --Shak.
7. A person deceived by an empty project; a gull. [Obs.] ``Ganny's a cheat, and I'm a bubble.'' --Prior.
It is only New York's performance, against a background of slow growth, trade squabbles and start-ling political disillusion, which is now arousing fears of a new bubble, which could burst as it did in 1987.
The public at large, however, was only antagonized by the bubble, which priced it out of the housing market.
That performance is convincing many analysts that far from being a bubble about to burst, Japan's stock market _ like its economy _ is a bedrock of stability that's a growing influence on world markets.
The true collectors could not compete but the greedy tumbled in. Then in 1980, inevitably, the bubble burst, and prices fell like a stone.
This is despite the recession after the bursting of the 'bubble' economy of the late 1980s. Japanese companies already use robots far more widely than the rest of the world.
Let stand a ruling that threw out former major leaguer Jim Bouton's $1 million damage award over a baseball Wrigley subsidiary's bubble gum product that resembles chewing tobacco.
Another standout: the bubble, a halo-like arrangement of teased curls.
The company also makes bubble gum, mostly marketed under the Dubble Bubble brand, as well as Razzles, a gum product pressed into the form of a tablet.
The boy apparently had gotten bubble gum stuck in his throat, Applegate said.
Even though ADA deficiency is rare, it received wide publicity several years ago from television reports of a Texas boy who had to live in a plastic bubble to protect him from infection and who subsequently died.
We bought just before the bubble burst,' says Mr Molloy.
With Congress set for a brawl over taxes, it's time to burst a bubble.
In Japan, those who subscribed for shares in the NTT telecom float lost fortunes, since the Ministry of Finance sought to wring the maximum proceeds from the sale as the stock market bubble of the late 1980s neared its peak.
But there is no escaping the sense that the machine is becoming more mature and less different from its western rivals than it used to be. The bubble may only have hastened the process of change.
Having boomed through the 1980s, the British retail design bubble has burst.
But starting in late 1989, that inflationary bubble began to burst.
But it also helps put the earlier dollar 'bubble' in proper perspective. Neither credible exchange rate commitments nor intervention explain the long period of relative stability, at least after 1987.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1968 for his development of the liquid-hydrogen bubble chamber and for the numerous elementary particles of matter that his team discovered using the device.
Mr. Miyazawa noted that similar forces were at work in Japan's "bubble economy" of the 1980s, resulting in soaring land and stock prices; the recent collapse of that speculative bubble "gave the whole nation a lesson," he said.
Mr. Miyazawa noted that similar forces were at work in Japan's "bubble economy" of the 1980s, resulting in soaring land and stock prices; the recent collapse of that speculative bubble "gave the whole nation a lesson," he said.
But then the bubble burst.
As stocks plummeted yesterday, several players wondered whether the recent spate of takeovers and leveraged buy-outs had become a speculative bubble.
In early 1983, Polly Peck stock crashed after three years of stratospheric growth, in which the shares skyrocketed beyond #32 a share from just nine pence apiece in a speculative bubble.
The average price/earnings ratio of the market peaked at 57 at the end of April. Most observers of the market claim to be glad that the stock market bubble has burst - but they do not want to see share prices fall further from what is still a heady level.
THE BOOMING New Jersey office market is starting to show some of the signs of a bubble about to burst.
Meanwhile bargain hunters have time to shop around. A revival of activity now depends on owners accepting lower prices rather than on buyers bidding each other up into another credit-filled bubble.
Michael Hughes, of BZW, said that although the emerging markets bubble has not burst, there has been a clear change in attitude by investors.
Mrs. Moody got the idea from watching a TV movie about a young man who lacked an immune system and lived inside a protective bubble designed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The Chopin Alveograph Test, for instance, requires dough to be mixed and then blown up and burst like bubble gum, in order to test its elasticity.
Meantime, in the aftermath of the asset price bubble, it is hardly surprising that the debt-laden personal sector is reluctant to spend and that the trade surplus is rising ominously.