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Plash vs Bubble - What's the difference?

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Plash is a related term of bubble.


In lang=en terms the difference between plash and bubble

is that plash is to cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of while bubble is to produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such in foods cooking).

As nouns the difference between plash and bubble

is that plash is (uk|dialectal) a small pool of standing water; a puddle or plash can be the branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches while bubble is a spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.

As verbs the difference between plash and bubble

is that plash is to splash or plash can be to cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of while bubble is to produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such in foods cooking).

plash

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

(plashes)
  • (UK, dialectal) A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
    • Out of the wound the red bloud flowed fresh, / That vnderneath his feet soone made a purple plesh .
    (Francis Bacon)
  • * Isaac Barrow
    • These shallow plashes .
  • A splash, or the sound made by a splash.
  • * Henry James, The Aspern Papers
    • Presently a gondola passed along the canal with its slow rhythmical plash , and as we listened we watched it in silence.

    Verb

  • To splash.
  • * Keats
    • plashing among bedded pebbles
  • * Longfellow
    • Far below him plashed the waters.
  • *
  • To cause a splash.
  • To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter.
    • to plash a wall in imitation of granite
    Related terms
    * plashy

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) plaissier, . Compare pleach.

    Noun

    (plashes)
  • The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.

    • Verb

  • To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of.
  • * to plash a hedge
    • (Evelyn)

    Anagrams

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    bubble

    English

    (wikipedia bubble)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
  • A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
    • bubbles in window glass, or in a lens
  • 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.
  • * Prior
    • Granny's a cheat, and I'm a bubble .
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1979, p. 15:
    • 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.
  • (figurative) The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed; circumstances, ambience.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012
    • , date=June 3 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992) citation , page= , passage=He’s wrapped up snugly in a cozy bubble of self-regard, talking for his own sake more than anyone else’s.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
    • , date=January 23 , author=Alistair Magowan , title=Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Thomas, so often West Brom's most positive attacker down their left side and up against Salgado, twice almost burst the bubble of excitement around the ground but he had two efforts superbly saved by Robinson.}}
  • (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
    • Then a soldier / Seeking the bubble reputation / Even in the cannon's mouth.
  • (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh. (also: bubble bath)
    • Are you having a bubble ?!

    Synonyms

    * (a laugh) giraffe, bubble bath

    Related terms

    * boy in the bubble * bubble and squeak * bubbly * bubble bath * bubble blower * bubble chamber * bubble era * bubble gum * bubble jet printer * bubble team * bubble under * bubble wrap * burst someone's bubble * down bubble * housing bubble * land bubble * on the bubble * stock bubble * up bubble

    Verb

    (bubbl)
  • 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:
    • No, no, friend, I shall never be bubbled out of my religion in hopes only of keeping my place under another government
  • * Addison
    • She has bubbled him out of his youth.
  • * Sterne
    • The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here.
  • (intransitive, Scotland, and, Northern England) To cry, weep.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "bubble")

    Derived terms

    * bubble over * bubble up

    References

    * * * English frequentative verbs English reduplications