bubble up meaning: definition, quotations

bubble up

verbalso spelled bubble-up

To move upward in bubbles or in a way suggesting bubbles.

The kid was fascinated by the air bubbling up from the aquarium vent.
So when the well blew, the methane did not bubble up gently.2011, Courtney Farrell, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, →ISBN, page 8:

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So while content can bubble up, it can also flow down to many smaller blogs and reach both a large audience and deep into networks.2013, Karine Nahon, Jeff Hemsley, Going Viral, →ISBN, page 89:
The fact that item 3 seems to slowly bubble up to its correct position gives the bubblesort algorithm its name.2013, Rod Stephens, Essential Algorithms: A Practical Approach to Computer Algorithms, →ISBN:

To reach the surface; to emerge.

Many of the old feelings bubbled up when I met her again.
And stifle them we must to play the role, voices steady, manners nonchalant, amid the torrents of profanities and soul-shrinking depravities that bubble up in a mainstream without margins2008, Diana West, The Death of the Grown-Up, →ISBN:

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Notice the feelings that bubble up as you write your “What I Don't Know List.”2013, Achim Nowak, Infectious, →ISBN:
But it didn't all bubble up and become clear until that last . . . week or so.2014, Alice Clayton, Mai Tai'd Up, →ISBN, page 92:

noun

A culvert that is open to the air on top.

This amount of cleaning is estimated to take ten months with the remaining two months being devoted to cleaning catch basins, depressed culverts (bubble-ups) , storm drain siphons, wash rack sumps, and so forth.1974, Anaheim (Calif.). Office of Administrative Officer, The Budget, page 2-127:
According to information received from Caltrans, about 470 hectares (1,400 acres) south of Highway 101 drain under the freeway through several bubble-ups and culverts and discharge onto NASA property2002, NASA Ames Development Plan: Environmental Impact Statement:

A commotion or controversy.

Virtual teams are formed to champion specific ideas and keep them alive in the memory. Bubble-ups and meltdowns, of course, require reconstructions and maintenance.1991, Robert Johansen, Leading Business Teams:
. Despite the regular talk-show bubble-ups whenever the entertainment industry “crosses the line,” concern over the power of the Hollywood boogeyman isn't particularly widespread.2011, Dante Chinni, James Gimpel, Our Patchwork Nation: The Surprising Truth About the "Real" America, →ISBN:

Something that causes effervescence.

Use it in the bath or shower. Instead of bath oils, bubble-ups, moisturizers. Instead of a bar of soap!1972, Creativity, page 161:
Bubble-ups are used on Christmas trees to add sparkle and in beer mugs or glasses in displays to give the beer a look of freshness.1985, Stanley M. Ulanoff, Handbook of Sales Promotion, page 562:

An act or process of bubbling up.

The Times did say the tax credit may, and I repeat, may, create more jobs in the long run, but the five million unemployed are not interested in the long run. They want jobs now. They cannot wait to see if they will benefit from this latest trickle-down. What they want, you see, is now a little trickle-up. They want some bubble-up.1969, AFL-CIO. Industrial Union Dept, Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention, page 12:
Trickle-down luxury, bubble-up status.2012, James B. Twitchell, Living It Up: Our Love Affair with Luxury, →ISBN, page 70:

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The bubble-up process can happen very quickly because professional bloggers are always on the lookout for new content to post.2013, Karine Nahon, Jeff Hemsley, Going Viral, →ISBN, page 89:
Open very slowly over a sink to release the pressure gradually and avoid bubble-ups.2013, Emma Christensen, True Brews, →ISBN:
Darwin famously provided a bubble-up theory of organismic complexity, arguing that “in order to make a perfect and beautiful machine it is not requisite to know how to make it” (MacKenzie, quoted in Dennett 2009).2013, Bryce Huebner, Macrocognition, →ISBN: