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English

Image:Balloon arch.jpg|thumb|right|Colorful toy balloons.

Etymology

From ballon.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /bəˈluːn/
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-balloon.ogg


Noun

  1. An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
  2. Such an object as a child’s toy.
  3. Such an object designed to transport people through the air.
  4. A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
  5. A speech bubble.


Synonyms


Derived terms

Translations

speech bubble See speech bubble

Verb

  1. To increase or expand rapidly.
  2. : His stomach ballooned from eating such a large meal.
  3. : Prices will balloon if we don't act quickly.


Translations

See also


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Balloon \Bal*loon"\, v. t.
To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Balloon \Bal*loon"\, v. i.
1. To go up or voyage in a balloon.
[1913 Webster]

2. To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Balloon \Bal*loon"\, n. [F. ballon, aug. of balle ball: cf. It.
ballone. See 1st Ball, n., and cf. Pallone.]
1. A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled
with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float
in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for
a["e]rial navigation.
[1913 Webster]

2. (Arch.) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church,
etc., as at St. Paul's, in London. [R.]
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3. (Chem.) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold
or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a
spherical form.
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4. (Pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell. [Obs.]
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5. A game played with a large inflated ball. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]

6. (Engraving) The outline inclosing words represented as
coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
[1913 Webster]

Air balloon, a balloon for a["e]rial navigation.

Balloon frame (Carp.), a house frame constructed altogether
of small timber.

Balloon net, a variety of woven lace in which the weft
threads are twisted in a peculiar manner around the warp.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet balloon
n 1: small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck
2: large tough non-rigid bag filled with gas or heated air
v 1: ride in a hot-air balloon; "He tried to balloon around the
earth but storms forced him to land in China"
2: become inflated; "The sails ballooned" [syn: inflate, billow]
Moby Dictionary
Graf Zeppelin , accrue , accumulate , advance , aeroplane , aerostat ,
air bubble , airlift , airplane , airship , appreciate , bag , ball ,
ballonet , be airborne , bead , belly , belly out , bilge , billow ,
bladder , bleb , blimp , blister , bloat , blob , blood blister , boll ,
bolus , boom , bouge , breed , broaden , bubble , bug , bulb , bulbil ,
bulblet , bulge , bulk , bulla , captive balloon , conglobulate ,
crescendo , cruise , develop , dilate , dirigible , dirigible balloon ,
distend , drift , ellipsoid , enlarge , expand , extend , ferry ,
fever blister , fill out , flit , fly , fob , gain , gain strength ,
gasbag , geoid , get ahead , glide , globe , globelet , globoid , globule ,
glomerulus , go up , gob , gobbet , goggle , greaten , grow , hop , hover ,
hydroplane , increase , intensify , jet , knob , knot ,
lighter-than-air craft , mount , multiply , mushroom , navigate ,
oblate spheroid , orb , orbit , orblet , pellet , pilot balloon , pocket ,
poke , pooch , pop , pouch , pout , prolate spheroid , proliferate ,
puff up , rigid airship , rise , rondure , round out , run up , sac ,
sack , sail , sailplane , sausage , seaplane , semirigid airship , ship ,
shoot up , snowball , soap bubble , soar , sphere , spherify , spheroid ,
spherule , spread , strengthen , stretch , swell , swell out ,
take the air , take wing , tumefy , vesicle , volplane , wax ,
weather balloon , widen , wing , zeppelin


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