balloon
IPA: bʌɫˈun
noun
- An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
- Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.
- Such an object designed to transport people or equipment 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.
- (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.
- (obsolete) A game played with a large inflated ball.
- (engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
- (slang) A woman's breast.
- (slang) A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.
- (finance) Synonym of balloon payment.
verb
- (intransitive) To increase or expand rapidly.
- (intransitive) To go up or voyage in a balloon.
- (transitive) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
- (transitive) To inflate like a balloon.
- (transitive, sports) To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
- (aviation) Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down.
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Examples of "balloon" in Sentences
- The balloon is distensible.
- The balloon fell to the ground.
- The first ballooning will be a legend.
- I guess the balloon is transported in another truck?
- The balloon uses the Sun radiation to heat the inside air.
- Her word balloon is split in half by Joker firing the gun.
- Gabrielle sobs quietly and releases the balloon into the air.
- How safe is Ballooning compared to other forms of air travel
- Hot air ballooning is the activity of flying hot air balloons.
- The event is the largest hot air balloon festival in the world.
- The history of ballooning, both with hot air and gas, spans many centuries.
- A balloon is inflated inside of the stomach to prevent the tube from falling out.
- To open up the narrow valve, the balloon is briefly inflated, deflated and withdrawn.
- To open up the narrow valve, the balloon is briefly inflated, deflated and then withdrawn.
- Onlookers gathered at vantage points, in boats and on hot air balloons to witness the rare phenomenon.
- Then a deflated balloon is threaded over the wire and inflated into a sausage shape to stretch and enlarge the narrowed area.
- These colored rectangles help create the impression of depth and set apart a white balloon from a background that may be partially white itself.
- Half the patients also underwent angioplasty and most of them received a stent -- a wire-mesh tube inserted into the artery to hold it open after the balloon is withdrawn.
- "I shall," says he, "make a balloon -- the _last balloon_ -- in proportions extraordinarily gigantic, twenty times larger than the largest, which shall realise that which has never been but a dream in the American journals, which shall attract, in France, England, and America, the crowd always ready to run to witness the most insignificant ascent.