ballooning
IPA: bʌɫˈunɪŋ
noun
- The act of something that swells or expands.
- (uncountable) The sport or hobby of flying in a hot-air balloon.
- The mechanical kiting used by spiders, mites, caterpillars, etc. to travel through the air.
adjective
- Growing rapidly as a balloon.
- Rising high in the air.
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Examples of "ballooning" in Sentences
- The first ballooning will be a legend.
- Ballooning was a risky business for the pioneers.
- Friends said that ballooning is in Abruzzo's blood.
- Hot air ballooning is the activity of flying hot air balloons.
- Clam found that he was not much attracted to the notion of ballooning with Lord Berrybender.
- If this ballooning is left untreated, it may continue to weaken, burst and bleed into the brain.
- High altitude ballooning is an emerging hobby, since price of GPS and communications equipment has gotten quite low.
- · Cool window title ballooning (song titles will be ballooned when your media player switches to a new song) · Optionally removes the window from the task bar
- We fell near Neath, Glamorganshire, only one and a half miles short of the sea, completing a voyage which is a record in English ballooning -- ten hours from start to finish.
- As a consequence, the feces and gas deposit and lodge at this latter location, producing in so doing the abnormal cavity called ballooning of the rectum, so often found just above the anal tube.
- Just half a year after being named to run the world's No. 1 carmaker, Toyoda is confronting the worst crisis in its 70-year history - massive global recalls ballooning to 8.5 million vehicles in a matter of weeks and its once-sterling reputation for quality in tatters.
- If the abnormally constricted condition of the anal orifice has been growing from bad to worse for years, the locality immediately above the anal canal will become dilated or cavernous (caused by retained feces or gases), which cavity is called ballooning of the rectum.