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bubble
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n 1: a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
2: a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that
the planner cannot control; "his proposal was nothing but a
house of cards"; "a real estate bubble" [syn: house of
cards, bubble]
3: an impracticable and illusory idea; "he didn't want to burst
the newcomer's bubble"
4: a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
v 1: form, produce, or emit bubbles; "The soup was bubbling"
2: flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling
brooks" [syn: ripple, babble, guggle, burble,
bubble, gurgle]
3: rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles; "bubble to the surface"
4: cause to form bubbles; "bubble gas through a liquid"
5: expel gas from the stomach; "In China it is polite to burp at
the table" [syn: burp, bubble, belch, eruct]
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double
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adv 1: downward and forward; "he was bent double with pain"
2: two together; "some people sleep better double"
3: to double the degree; "she was doubly rewarded"; "his eyes
were double bright" [syn: doubly, double, twice]
adj 1: having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or
qualities; "a double (or dual) role for an actor"; "the
office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and
private influence"- R.W.Emerson; "every episode has its
double and treble meaning"-Frederick Harrison [syn:
double, dual, twofold, two-fold, treble,
threefold, three-fold]
2: consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in
pairs; "an egg with a double yolk"; "a double (binary) star";
"double doors"; "dual controls for pilot and copilot"; "duple
(or double) time consists of two (or a multiple of two) beats
to a measure" [syn: double, dual, duple]
3: twice as great or many; "ate a double portion"; "the dose is
doubled"; "a twofold increase" [syn: double, doubled,
twofold, two-fold]
4: used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals
in crowded or overlapping arrangements; "double
chrysanthemums have many rows of petals and are usually
spherical or hemispherical" [ant: single]
5: used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in
synapsis [syn: bivalent, double] [ant: multivalent,
univalent]
6: large enough for two; "a double bed"; "a double room"
7: having two meanings with intent to deceive; "a sly double
meaning"; "spoke with forked tongue" [syn: double,
forked]
n 1: a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base;
"he hit a double to deep centerfield" [syn: double, two-
base hit, two-bagger, two-baser]
2: a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts; "his
first job in Hollywood was as a double for Clark Gable" [syn:
double, stunt man, stunt woman]
3: someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an
actor); "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very
image of her mother" [syn: double, image, look-alike]
4: a quantity that is twice as great as another; "36 is the
double of 18"
5: raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; "I
decided his double was a bluff" [syn: doubling, double]
v 1: increase twofold; "The population doubled within 50 years"
[syn: double, duplicate]
2: hit a two-base hit
3: bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain; "He
doubled and vomited violently" [syn: double over, double,
double up]
4: do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions;
"She doubles as his wife and secretary"
5: bridge: make a demand for (a card or suit)
6: make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his
brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: duplicate,
reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate]
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rabble
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n 1: a disorderly crowd of people [syn: mob, rabble, rout]
2: disparaging terms for the common people [syn: rabble,
riffraff, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail]
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redouble
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v 1: double in magnitude, extent, or intensity; "The enemy
redoubled their screaming on the radio"
2: double again; "The noise doubled and redoubled"
3: make twice as great or intense; "The screaming redoubled"
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rubble
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n 1: the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken
up [syn: debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritus]
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stubble
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n 1: material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of
stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
[syn: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw,
stubble]
2: short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not
shaved for a few days
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trouble
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n 1: a source of difficulty; "one trouble after another delayed
the job"; "what's the problem?" [syn: trouble, problem]
2: an angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a fuss"; "they
had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother" [syn: fuss,
trouble, bother, hassle]
3: an event causing distress or pain; "what is the trouble?";
"heart trouble"
4: an effort that is inconvenient; "I went to a lot of trouble";
"he won without any trouble"; "had difficulty walking";
"finished the test only with great difficulty" [syn:
trouble, difficulty]
5: a strong feeling of anxiety; "his worry over the prospect of
being fired"; "it is not work but worry that kills"; "he
wanted to die and end his troubles" [syn: worry, trouble]
6: an unwanted pregnancy; "he got several girls in trouble"
v 1: move deeply; "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought"
[syn: disturb, upset, trouble]
2: to cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "Sorry to trouble
you, but..." [syn: trouble, put out, inconvenience,
disoblige, discommode, incommode, bother]
3: disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or
alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her
father was seriously ill" [syn: perturb, unhinge,
disquiet, trouble, cark, distract, disorder]
4: take the trouble to do something; concern oneself; "He did
not trouble to call his mother on her birthday"; "Don't
bother, please" [syn: trouble oneself, trouble, bother,
inconvenience oneself]
5: cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed [syn:
trouble, ail, pain]
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nubble
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n 1: a small lump or protuberance [syn: nub, nubble]
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hubble
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n 1: United States astronomer who discovered that (as the
universe expands) the speed with which nebulae recede
increases with their distance from the observer (1889-1953)
[syn: Hubble, Edwin Hubble, Edwin Powell Hubble]
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beall
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