Trouble vs Bubble - What's the difference?
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A distressful or dangerous situation.
A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
* (John Milton)
* (William Shakespeare)
A violent occurrence or event.
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*:Indeed, by the report of our elders, this nervous preparation for old age is only trouble thrown away.
A malfunction.
Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
(mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
* Bible, John v. 4
* Milton
To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
* Bible, John xii. 27
* Shakespeare
* John Locke
In weaker sense: to bother; to annoy, pester.
To take pains to do something.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.26:
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.
* Prior
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1979, p. 15:
(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.
As verbs the difference between trouble and bubble
is that trouble is while bubble is to produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such in foods cooking).As a noun bubble is
a spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.trouble
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Noun
(en noun)- Lest the fiend some new trouble raise.
- Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds / Do breed unnatural troubles .
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- She never took the trouble to close them.
Usage notes
* Verbs often used with "trouble": make, spell, stir up, ask for, etc.Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* ask for trouble * distrouble * double trouble * engine trouble * get into trouble * in trouble * teething troubles * trouble and strife * troubled * trouble-free * trouble in paradise * troublemaker/trouble maker * troubler * The Troubles * troubleshoot * troubleshooter * troubleshooting * troublesome * trouble spotSee also
* for uses and meaning of trouble collocated with these words.Verb
(troubl)- An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water.
- God looking forth will trouble all his host.
- Now is my soul troubled .
- Take the boy to you; he so troubles me / 'Tis past enduring.
- Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure.
- Question 3 in the test is troubling me.
- I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
- Why trouble about the future? It is wholly uncertain.
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(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.