1. subst. A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.
2. subst. A swelling on a plant.
3. subst. (medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
4. subst. A bubble, as on a painted surface.
5. subst. (roofing) An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.
6. subst. A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.
1. subst. A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
2. subst. A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
bubbles in window glass, or in a lens
3. subst. Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
4. subst. (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 (e
5. subst. (obsolete) Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
6. subst. (figurative) The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed; circumstances, ambience.
7. subst. (Cockney rhyming slang) a Greek (also: bubble and squeak)
8. subst. A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
9. subst. The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
10. subst. Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
11. subst. (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh. (also: bubble bath)
Are you having a bubble?!
12. subst. (computing) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
13. subst. (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
Many players tend to play timidly (not play many hands) around the bubble, to keep their chips and last longer in the game.
14. v. (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
15. v. (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
Rage bubbled inside him.
16. v. (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
17. v. (transitive, archaic) To cheat, delude.
18. v. (intransitive, Scotland, and Northern England) To cry, weep.
1. subst. (zoology) A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.
2. subst. (anatomy) Specifically, the urinary bladder.
3. subst. (botany) A hollow, inflatable organ of a plant.
4. subst. The inflatable bag inside various balls used in sports, such as footballs and rugby balls.
5. subst. A sealed plastic bag that contains wine and is usually packaged in a cask.
6. subst. (figurative) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
7. v. To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
8. v. To store or put up in bladders.
bladdered lard
vesicle
vesicle
1. subst. (cytology) A membrane-bound compartment found in a cell.
2. subst. A small bladder-like cell or cavity; a vesicula.
3. subst. (anatomy) A small sac or cyst or vacuole, especially one containing fluid. A blister formed in or beneath the skin, containing serum. A bleb.
4. subst. (anatomy) A pocket of embryonic tissue that is the beginning of an organ.
5. subst. (geology) A small cavity formed in volcanic rock by entrapment of a gas bubble during solidification.
urinary bladder
urinary bladder
1. subst. (anatomy) An elastic, muscular sac situated in the pelvic cavity, into which urine from the kidneys is stored prior to disposal by urination. Urine enters the bladder via the ureters and exits via the
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