boil vs bubble

boil

verb
  • To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce. 

  • To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation. 

  • To feel uncomfortably hot. 

  • To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid. 

  • To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil. 

  • To begin to turn into a gas, seethe. 

  • To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas. 

  • To be uncomfortably hot. 

  • To cook in boiling water. 

noun
  • The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point. 

  • A dish of boiled food, especially seafood. 

  • A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood. (Compare a bake or clambake.) 

  • The collective noun for a group of hawks. 

  • A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection. 

bubble

verb
  • To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning. 

  • To join together in a support bubble 

  • To form into a protruding round shape. 

  • To cry, weep. 

  • To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling). 

  • To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface. 

  • To cover with bubbles. 

  • To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid. 

  • To express in a bubbly or lively manner. 

  • To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch. 

  • To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’). 

  • Rage bubbled inside him. 

  • To apply a filter bubble, as to search results. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides. 

  • A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light. 

  • Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory. 

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

  • A small spherical cavity in a solid material. 

  • Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project. 

  • A Greek. 

  • The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed. 

  • Anything resembling a hollow sphere. 

  • 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. 

  • A laugh. 

  • 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. 

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