Bubble vs Froth - What's the difference?
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A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
(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 (eg the ).
(obsolete) Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
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(figurative) The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed; circumstances, ambience.
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(Cockney rhyming slang) a Greek (also: bubble and squeak)
A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
* Shakespeare
(Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh. (also: bubble bath)
To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such in foods cooking).
(archaic) To cheat, delude.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 443:
* Addison
* Sterne
(intransitive, Scotland, and, Northern England) To cry, weep.
foam
(figuratively) unimportant events or actions; drivel
* L'Estrange
To create froth in.
To bubble.
To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
* Dryden
* Tennyson
To cover with froth.
Froth is a synonym of bubble.
In intransitive terms the difference between bubble and froth
is that bubble is to produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such in foods cooking) while froth is to bubble.bubble
English
(wikipedia bubble)Noun
(en noun)- bubbles in window glass, or in a lens
- Granny's a cheat, and I'm a bubble .
- 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.
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- Then a soldier / Seeking the bubble reputation / Even in the cannon's mouth.
- Are you having a bubble ?!
Synonyms
* (a laugh) giraffe, bubble bathVerb
(bubbl)- No, no, friend, I shall never be bubbled out of my religion in hopes only of keeping my place under another government
- She has bubbled him out of his youth.
- The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "bubble")Derived terms
* bubble over * bubble upfroth
English
Noun
- Froth is a very important feature of many types of coffee.
- It was a long speech, but all froth .
- Thousands of African children die each day: why do the newspapers continue to discuss unnecessary showbiz froth ?
Derived terms
* froth fly * froth insect * froth spit * froth wormVerb
(en verb)- I like to froth my coffee for ten seconds exactly.
- The chemical frothed up when I added the acid.
- He froths treason at his mouth.
- Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more?
- A horse froths his chain.