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Balloon Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Balloon?
[n] large tough non-rigid bag filled with gas or hot air
[n] small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck [v] become inflated; "The sails ballooned" [v] ride in a hot air balloon Synonyms | Synonyms for Balloon: billow | inflate Related Terms | Find terms related to Balloon: 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 | Graf Zeppelin | 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 See Also | aviate | envelope | expand | fly | gasbag | hot-air balloon | lighter-than-air craft | meteorological balloon | pilot | plaything | reflate | ripcord | toy | trial balloon Balloon In Webster's Dictionary \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.
2. (Arch.) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church,
etc., as at St. Paul's, in London. [R.]
3. (Chem.) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold
or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a
spherical form.
4. (Pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell. [Obs.]
5. A game played with a large inflated ball. [Obs.]
6. (Engraving) The outline inclosing words represented as
coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
{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.
\Bal*loon"\, v. t. To take up in, or as if in, a balloon. \Bal*loon"\, v. i. 1. To go up or voyage in a balloon. 2. To expand, or puff out, like a balloon. |
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