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Definition of burble in English: burbleverbˈbəːb(ə)lˈbərbəl 1no object Make a continuous murmuring noise. 发出汩汩声 a stream burbled through the woods Example sentencesExamples - All over the world, bottles of red wine are being uncorked and coffee percolators are burbling away pleasantly in anticipation: it must be time for Norah Jones's second album.
- With the engine still burbling away, I strapped myself in.
- You could run along the path at midnight, hard earth under your feet, the creek burbling along beside you - and the experience was exactly what you would have had one hundred years ago.
- The engine started, burbled away cheerfully for a while and then stopped.
- At this pleasant Victorian seaside resort, they fry in oversized skillets burbling with oil - and heaps of sliced onions.
- And the fountains burbling in the background are very soothing.
- As the larger yachts and cruisers burbled into harbour it gave the added fascination of playing spot the millionaire; but everyone here dressed down and ‘distressed casual’ was definitely the look.
- With the V twin burbling away it is a very comfortable and relaxing bike to ride at 110 km/h on the highway.
- He drew deeply on his hookah, wheezing and coughing, making it burble and bubble in the still air.
- It had a trout stream burbling through the middle of it - I didn't fish - and too many ruined barns to do up.
- Pink streamers swirled from my sodden jeans, tendrils of crimson whipping off into the water burbling around my boots.
- ‘Summer Rain’ is a pleasant bossa-nova shuffle, highlighted by a muted trumpet burbling through the verses.
- I walked in rain and got kissed and saw bright green grass and heard a creek burbling and that was good.
- Sucking and burbling, the water was whipped into a clockwise motion and the whole course changed.
- As the last piece of meat is born away across the marina and the crowd slowly disperses, we wash the boat and ourselves down and then tow the filleted carcass out to sea, the little outboard burbling happily on whiskey fumes in the darkness.
- I jammed my head over the railing on the gorge's upstream side: nothing but the pretty stream burbling over rocks and between snowbanks 70 feet below.
- Cristophe is complaining about Wizards of the Coast while Seb gets the coffee-maker burbling.
- Flashlight was sinus infection listening - all bass swell and muffled percussion burbling beneath tattered acoustic overlay.
- A small house stood in the middle of the glade, a brook burbling next to it.
- There's a coffee machine burbling invitingly several feet away, just beyond my reach.
Synonyms gurgle, bubble, murmur, purr, purl, tinkle, whir, drone, rumble, buzz, hum literary plash - 1.1 Speak continuously and at length in an unintelligible or confused way.
he burbled on about annuities 为养老年金的事,他不停地嘟囔。 with object he was burbling inanities 他絮絮不休地讲着些蠢话。 Example sentencesExamples - And along beside Mott's Road the stream is gurgling, babbling, chattering, bubbling, giggling, chortling, burbling - so many words to express the natural joy, the hilarity of nature doing what it does best: glorifying God in its self.
- So I'm just going to keep randomly burbling away until I've completed 100 posts.
- Later a man is seen crying in the sand, burbling: ‘I've ruined my life.’
- ‘The living world,’ she burbles, ‘is made of rainbows within rainbows, in an endless progression.’
- It is quite absurd, not to mention infuriating, to have some moron from Sky burbling on about the next attraction when one has not had time to absorb the emotion from the film one has just seen.
- He then burbles on for a while about how he didn't come to the jungle to win (he actually seems to think winning means something tangible, like winning Wimbledon) and then claims he plays ‘a bigger - or smaller’ game.
- For months I've been wandering around, burbling about how crazily happy I am, scared it would end since I don't know how it started.
- Now I am hiding in my room sniggering & eating ice cream, & in a second I'll probably start giggling uncontrollably & burbling about Jim Morrison.
- We sit down to talk in an upstairs boardroom and are joined by Sylla's young nephew, who burbles quietly to himself then falls asleep.
- Read any supermodel burbling on about the ‘secret’ of her breathtaking beauty and she'll confide, ‘I drink lots of water.’
- Nelly burbles about ‘not wanting to hide behind metaphor ‘and uncovering her ‘wiser self‘.
- Good thing she got her column done before Paul Hamm's victory yesterday, because it would have messed up the theme of American defeat she's burbling over.
- As I handed her the key she burbled, ‘Thank you so much!’
- The lot in front of me never seem to contribute much, but tonight they dumped the kids and brought their quiet mates along, who burbled about how ‘exciting’ the game was when we were 2-down at half time.
- She burbles out some sympathetic remarks and says ‘We've all had to wait around too you know!’
- He could have burbled on, said things he didn't mean to say, kept it going just for appearances.
- ‘The delivery model for service on this airline could easily be workshopped into a far more efficient, customer-oriented system than the shambles in front of us today,’ the man on my right burbled.
- Around the conference table, eight extremely believable-looking exec types, many with the faces of prominent local actors, glare him down as he burbles.
- Last time I watched, there was some blonde buffoon on Question Time, burbling in an anachronistic fashion about something or the other.
- As we chatted, his infant son burbled happily in the background.
- Lloyd Goodrich, an ex-director of the Whitney, burbled about the caricaturist's ‘designs of such complexity, completeness, and control.’
Synonyms prattle, blather, blether, blither, babble (on), gabble, prate, drivel, rattle on/away, ramble, maunder, go on, run on, talk at length, talk incessantly, talk a lot chatter, yap, gossip British talk nineteen to the dozen Scottish & Irish slabber on informal jabber, blabber, yatter, jaw, gab, gas, chit-chat, yackety-yak British informal rabbit, witter, waffle, natter, chunter, talk the hind legs off a donkey North American informal run off at the mouth Australian/New Zealand informal mag archaic twaddle, twattle, claver, clack
2often as noun burblingAeronautics (of an airflow) break up into turbulence. 〔航空〕气流动荡 Example sentencesExamples - At greater than approximately 110-120 kias (altitude 1200-3500ft) there is significant buffeting or burbling of airflow felt in the airframe.
- Just before a wing stalls, the airflow "burbles," or becomes turbulent over the upper surface of the wing.
- The airflow over the tail was burbling and that is when I lost control.
noun ˈbəːb(ə)lˈbərbəl mass noun1Continuous murmuring noise. 发出汩汩声 the steady burble of running water Example sentencesExamples - Once on the move the steering lightens up and provides all the feel you'd expect from a fully manual system, while the V6 emits a subdued burble.
- Hinting at the soulful surplus of house music, Melchior works with tiny elements: a burble of a bassline, a snippet of singing, and hi-hat drums that point toward the heavens without lifting their arms.
- As she crests the ridge, high above the water, she catches the first white-noise burble.
- When cruising effortlessly at 100 km/h with the six-speed auto in top it's doing just 1600 rpm, but get on the gas and it sprints away, emitting a nice V8 burble in the process.
- He could hear the burble of a small stream and quickened his pace, grinning when he saw the water.
- And if properly looked after, the big V8 is a lovely motor that will behave itself and deliver a low, buttery burble as you cruise along.
- The power delivery is seamless, the engine note rising from a deep burble like a powerboat tethered to a jetty to a howl like a Formula One car.
- With only the burble of the fountain to create an illusion of coolness, I avoided any color that suggested heat.
- The engine kicks into life - but not so much with a deep-throated roar as a pleasing, tinny burble.
- There are times when sound cues are used (a jingle of wind chimes, the burble of water), and the aural presentation here emphasizes them nicely.
- Gensets with integral sound shields can be very quiet, especially when fitted with exhaust systems that separate cooling water from the exhaust gas, avoiding the annoying burble/splash of the conventional exhaust system.
- Start the engine and there is a pleasant burble from the back.
- As he steps away, the pilot hears a deep and powerful burble, which immediately repeats itself and seems to emanate from somewhere in the bowels of the plane.
- He felt excitement as a burble of acid at the base of his throat and stomach.
- The wind burble was - you guessed it - rotor wash.
- The flowers and bushes are in bloom; flox cossets the rocks on the neighbor's front lawn; at night you can hear the burble of a waterfall across the street.
- Wesley's muffled weeping rises over the burble of the respirators.
- It's happiest cruising at sedate velocities and is particularly enjoyable topless, when the V-8's dual-exhaust burble can be best appreciated.
- I remain a big fan of the engine though - the throaty burble they emanate still sends a chill up my spine each time I hear one.
- Once on the move you find the SP exhaust produces a nice note at low revs - not that loud, but with a sporty burble (in a four-pot way).
Synonyms burble, babble, purl, gurgle - 1.1 Rambling speech.
漫谈,东拉西扯 无聊地东拉西扯了一小时。 Example sentencesExamples - Chattering, always chattering with the indecipherable burble of an audience.
- The less robust sauna inhabitants start to fill the sauna with a burble of profanity, as they pray that their eyes don't boil and explode.
- In a spoken statement, use of these terms above a certain threshold renders understanding impossible, and turns strings of words into a calming but meaningless background burble.
- So… you need a Famous Writer, or at a pinch, a Famous Reviewer (which is all too often an oxymoron) to produce the necessary burble for the blurb.
- It's not conversation but the complacent burble of a radio on a windowsill.
- So much babble and burble is spoken about the internet and cyber-space that I almost recoil from it but the web conforms entirely to the free market idea of an end-independent spontaneous order.
- It's accumulated about a million words of burble over nearly four years.
Synonyms lengthy explanation, lengthy story, saga, yarn, recitation, burble, burbling, maundering, shaggy-dog story
Derivativesnoun Chicago is filled with fountains, from small burblers in neighborhoods to soaring plumes of wind-driven water. Example sentencesExamples - Having dealt with Sir Elton rather charitably, Mr Rosen moves on to that mighty burbler of the previous generation, John Lennon.
- Experience these burblers and their caboose companions before the last curtain call.
- Old Brian Jenkins (Lab, Tamworth), himself one of the yarniest burblers at Westminster, told Sir Jock: ‘You're very good at not making recommendations.’
- Belgian duo Patrick and Steve Hoody continue Ruff Dog's burst out of the starting blocks with this zippy electronic burbler.
OriginMiddle English (in the sense 'to bubble'): imitative. Current senses date from the late 19th century. Definition of burble in US English: burbleverbˈbərbəlˈbərbəl [no object]1Make a continuous murmuring noise. 发出汩汩声 the wind burbled at his ear 风在他耳边呼呼作响。 Example sentencesExamples - ‘Summer Rain’ is a pleasant bossa-nova shuffle, highlighted by a muted trumpet burbling through the verses.
- Pink streamers swirled from my sodden jeans, tendrils of crimson whipping off into the water burbling around my boots.
- Cristophe is complaining about Wizards of the Coast while Seb gets the coffee-maker burbling.
- At this pleasant Victorian seaside resort, they fry in oversized skillets burbling with oil - and heaps of sliced onions.
- Flashlight was sinus infection listening - all bass swell and muffled percussion burbling beneath tattered acoustic overlay.
- As the last piece of meat is born away across the marina and the crowd slowly disperses, we wash the boat and ourselves down and then tow the filleted carcass out to sea, the little outboard burbling happily on whiskey fumes in the darkness.
- The engine started, burbled away cheerfully for a while and then stopped.
- All over the world, bottles of red wine are being uncorked and coffee percolators are burbling away pleasantly in anticipation: it must be time for Norah Jones's second album.
- With the engine still burbling away, I strapped myself in.
- There's a coffee machine burbling invitingly several feet away, just beyond my reach.
- It had a trout stream burbling through the middle of it - I didn't fish - and too many ruined barns to do up.
- You could run along the path at midnight, hard earth under your feet, the creek burbling along beside you - and the experience was exactly what you would have had one hundred years ago.
- I walked in rain and got kissed and saw bright green grass and heard a creek burbling and that was good.
- He drew deeply on his hookah, wheezing and coughing, making it burble and bubble in the still air.
- And the fountains burbling in the background are very soothing.
- As the larger yachts and cruisers burbled into harbour it gave the added fascination of playing spot the millionaire; but everyone here dressed down and ‘distressed casual’ was definitely the look.
- I jammed my head over the railing on the gorge's upstream side: nothing but the pretty stream burbling over rocks and between snowbanks 70 feet below.
- A small house stood in the middle of the glade, a brook burbling next to it.
- With the V twin burbling away it is a very comfortable and relaxing bike to ride at 110 km/h on the highway.
- Sucking and burbling, the water was whipped into a clockwise motion and the whole course changed.
Synonyms gurgle, bubble, murmur, purr, purl, tinkle, whir, drone, rumble, buzz, hum - 1.1 Speak in an unintelligible or silly way, typically at unnecessary length.
嘟嘟囔囔地说;絮絮不休 he burbled on about annuities 为养老年金的事,他不停地嘟囔。 with object he was burbling inanities 他絮絮不休地讲着些蠢话。 Example sentencesExamples - Lloyd Goodrich, an ex-director of the Whitney, burbled about the caricaturist's ‘designs of such complexity, completeness, and control.’
- Nelly burbles about ‘not wanting to hide behind metaphor ‘and uncovering her ‘wiser self‘.
- As we chatted, his infant son burbled happily in the background.
- She burbles out some sympathetic remarks and says ‘We've all had to wait around too you know!’
- Later a man is seen crying in the sand, burbling: ‘I've ruined my life.’
- As I handed her the key she burbled, ‘Thank you so much!’
- And along beside Mott's Road the stream is gurgling, babbling, chattering, bubbling, giggling, chortling, burbling - so many words to express the natural joy, the hilarity of nature doing what it does best: glorifying God in its self.
- He could have burbled on, said things he didn't mean to say, kept it going just for appearances.
- So I'm just going to keep randomly burbling away until I've completed 100 posts.
- It is quite absurd, not to mention infuriating, to have some moron from Sky burbling on about the next attraction when one has not had time to absorb the emotion from the film one has just seen.
- For months I've been wandering around, burbling about how crazily happy I am, scared it would end since I don't know how it started.
- Read any supermodel burbling on about the ‘secret’ of her breathtaking beauty and she'll confide, ‘I drink lots of water.’
- ‘The living world,’ she burbles, ‘is made of rainbows within rainbows, in an endless progression.’
- Around the conference table, eight extremely believable-looking exec types, many with the faces of prominent local actors, glare him down as he burbles.
- He then burbles on for a while about how he didn't come to the jungle to win (he actually seems to think winning means something tangible, like winning Wimbledon) and then claims he plays ‘a bigger - or smaller’ game.
- Good thing she got her column done before Paul Hamm's victory yesterday, because it would have messed up the theme of American defeat she's burbling over.
- The lot in front of me never seem to contribute much, but tonight they dumped the kids and brought their quiet mates along, who burbled about how ‘exciting’ the game was when we were 2-down at half time.
- Last time I watched, there was some blonde buffoon on Question Time, burbling in an anachronistic fashion about something or the other.
- Now I am hiding in my room sniggering & eating ice cream, & in a second I'll probably start giggling uncontrollably & burbling about Jim Morrison.
- ‘The delivery model for service on this airline could easily be workshopped into a far more efficient, customer-oriented system than the shambles in front of us today,’ the man on my right burbled.
- We sit down to talk in an upstairs boardroom and are joined by Sylla's young nephew, who burbles quietly to himself then falls asleep.
Synonyms prattle, blather, blether, blither, babble, babble on, gabble, prate, drivel, rattle away, rattle on, ramble, maunder, go on, run on, talk at length, talk incessantly, talk a lot - 1.2often as noun burblingAeronautics (of an airflow) break up into turbulence.
〔航空〕气流动荡 Example sentencesExamples - The airflow over the tail was burbling and that is when I lost control.
- At greater than approximately 110-120 kias (altitude 1200-3500ft) there is significant buffeting or burbling of airflow felt in the airframe.
- Just before a wing stalls, the airflow "burbles," or becomes turbulent over the upper surface of the wing.
nounˈbərbəlˈbərbəl 1Continuous murmuring noise. 发出汩汩声 Example sentencesExamples - And if properly looked after, the big V8 is a lovely motor that will behave itself and deliver a low, buttery burble as you cruise along.
- The engine kicks into life - but not so much with a deep-throated roar as a pleasing, tinny burble.
- As he steps away, the pilot hears a deep and powerful burble, which immediately repeats itself and seems to emanate from somewhere in the bowels of the plane.
- Once on the move you find the SP exhaust produces a nice note at low revs - not that loud, but with a sporty burble (in a four-pot way).
- When cruising effortlessly at 100 km/h with the six-speed auto in top it's doing just 1600 rpm, but get on the gas and it sprints away, emitting a nice V8 burble in the process.
- Gensets with integral sound shields can be very quiet, especially when fitted with exhaust systems that separate cooling water from the exhaust gas, avoiding the annoying burble/splash of the conventional exhaust system.
- Hinting at the soulful surplus of house music, Melchior works with tiny elements: a burble of a bassline, a snippet of singing, and hi-hat drums that point toward the heavens without lifting their arms.
- He could hear the burble of a small stream and quickened his pace, grinning when he saw the water.
- The flowers and bushes are in bloom; flox cossets the rocks on the neighbor's front lawn; at night you can hear the burble of a waterfall across the street.
- He felt excitement as a burble of acid at the base of his throat and stomach.
- Wesley's muffled weeping rises over the burble of the respirators.
- It's happiest cruising at sedate velocities and is particularly enjoyable topless, when the V-8's dual-exhaust burble can be best appreciated.
- Start the engine and there is a pleasant burble from the back.
- The wind burble was - you guessed it - rotor wash.
- The power delivery is seamless, the engine note rising from a deep burble like a powerboat tethered to a jetty to a howl like a Formula One car.
- As she crests the ridge, high above the water, she catches the first white-noise burble.
- I remain a big fan of the engine though - the throaty burble they emanate still sends a chill up my spine each time I hear one.
- There are times when sound cues are used (a jingle of wind chimes, the burble of water), and the aural presentation here emphasizes them nicely.
- Once on the move the steering lightens up and provides all the feel you'd expect from a fully manual system, while the V6 emits a subdued burble.
- With only the burble of the fountain to create an illusion of coolness, I avoided any color that suggested heat.
Synonyms burble, babble, purl, gurgle - 1.1 Rambling speech.
漫谈,东拉西扯 无聊地东拉西扯了一小时。 Example sentencesExamples - The less robust sauna inhabitants start to fill the sauna with a burble of profanity, as they pray that their eyes don't boil and explode.
- It's accumulated about a million words of burble over nearly four years.
- Chattering, always chattering with the indecipherable burble of an audience.
- In a spoken statement, use of these terms above a certain threshold renders understanding impossible, and turns strings of words into a calming but meaningless background burble.
- So… you need a Famous Writer, or at a pinch, a Famous Reviewer (which is all too often an oxymoron) to produce the necessary burble for the blurb.
- So much babble and burble is spoken about the internet and cyber-space that I almost recoil from it but the web conforms entirely to the free market idea of an end-independent spontaneous order.
- It's not conversation but the complacent burble of a radio on a windowsill.
Synonyms lengthy explanation, lengthy story, saga, yarn, recitation, burble, burbling, maundering, shaggy-dog story
OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘to bubble’): imitative. Current senses date from the late 19th century. |