Balloon

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Balloon \Bal*loon"\, v. t.
     To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Balloon \Bal*loon"\, v. i.
     1. To go up or voyage in a balloon.
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     2. To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     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.]
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     6. (Engraving) The outline inclosing words represented as
        coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
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     {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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  142 Moby Thesaurus words for "balloon":
     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