| inglese > italiano | |
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| bubble | |
| 1. sost. bolla | |
| inglese > inglese | |
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| bubble | |
| 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. | |
| italiano > inglese | |
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| bolla | |
| 1. subst. bubble; blister | |
| 2. subst. bull (e.g. Papal); seal | |
| 3. subst. bill; note (paper money) | |
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