Bubble vs. Fizz — What's the Difference?

A thin, usually spherical or hemispherical film of liquid filled with air or gas

To make a hissing or bubbling sound; effervesce.

A globular body of air or gas formed within a liquid

A hissing or bubbling sound.

A pocket formed in a solid by air or gas that is trapped, as during cooling or hardening.

Effervescence.

The sound made by the forming and bursting of bubbles.

An effervescent beverage.

Something insubstantial, groundless, or ephemeral, especially a fantastic or impracticable idea or belief

An emission of a rapid stream of bubbles.

Something light or effervescent

The sound of such an emission.

A usually transparent glass or plastic dome.

A carbonated beverage, especially champagne.

A protective, often isolating envelope or cover

(intransitive) To emit bubbles.

A usually oval outline, as on a ballot or a standardized test form, intended to be filled in using a pencil or pen.

(intransitive) To make a rapid hissing or bubbling sound.

A rounded or irregularly shaped outline, as in a cartoon or other drawing, containing a character's speech or thoughts, as represented by words or pictures.

(intransitive) To shoot or project something at great velocity.

(Economics) An increase in the price of a commodity, investment, or market that is not warranted by economic fundamentals and is usually caused by ongoing investment or speculation in the expectation that the price will increase further.

To make a hissing sound, such as that of a burning fuse or a bubbling carbonated beverage.

To form or give off bubbles

A hissing sound; as, the fizz of a fly.

To move or flow with a gurgling sound

An effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic)

To rise to the surface

Form bubbles;

To become active or intense enough to come into prominence

To display irrepressible activity or emotion

Capable of being categorized in one class or another; borderline

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

A small spherical cavity in a solid material.

(by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.

(figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.

(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.

(figurative) The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed.

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

(obsolete) Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.

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.

(Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.

(Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.

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

(poker) 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.

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

(intransitive) 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 rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.

To cheat, delude.

To cry, weep.

(transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.

(transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.

(transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.

(transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.

(transitive) To cover with bubbles.

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

(intransitive) To join together in a support bubble

A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.

A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or aërated waters.

A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.

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 that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble.

A person deceived by an empty project; a gull.

To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.

To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream.

To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.

A hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)

A speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control;

An impracticable and illusory idea;

A dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic

Form, produce, or emit bubbles;

Flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise;

Expel gas from the stomach;