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Definition of 'balloon'English
Noun
( wikipedia)
( en-noun)
An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
Such an object as a child’s toy.
Such an object designed to transport people through the air.
(medicine) A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
A speech bubble.
A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
(architecture) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
- the balloon of St. Paul's Cathedral in London
(chemistry) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
(pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell.
A game played with a large inflated ball.
(engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
Synonyms
* (inflatable object)
* toy balloon
* (transport) hot-air balloon, Montgolfier
* (in medicine)
* (speech bubble) speech bubble, fumetto
Derived terms
* barrage balloon
* balloon animal
* balloon-back
* balloon barrage
* balloon clock
* balloon club
* balloon flower
( rel-mid3)
* ballooning
* balloonist
* balloon sail
* balloon tyre
* balloon vine
* go down like a lead balloon
* hot-air balloon
( rel-mid3)
* pilot balloon
* trial balloon
* weather balloon
* when the balloon goes up
( rel-bottom)
Verb
( en-verb)
To increase or expand rapidly.
- His stomach ballooned from eating such a large meal.
- Prices will balloon if we don't act quickly.
To go up or voyage in a balloon.
To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
See also
* airship
* ball
* ballonet
* blimp
* dirigible
* gondola
* zeppelin
Similar to 'balloon'billion, bouillon, baleen, ballon, bollen, bullion, billon, beluin, boolean, belain, bullaun, blowen
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