balloon

[Bal*loon·]

A balloon is a colorful bit of rubber that can be blown up or filled with helium. Many children's parties are decorated with balloons.

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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'89rial navigation.

Noun
large tough non-rigid bag filled with gas or heated air

Noun
small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck

Verb
become inflated; "The sails ballooned"

Verb
ride in a hot-air balloon; "He tried to balloon around the earth but storms forced him to land in China"

n.
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 aerial navigation.

n.
A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.

n.
A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.

n.
A bomb or shell.

n.
A game played with a large inflated ball.

n.
The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.

v. t.
To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.

v. i.
To go up or voyage in a balloon.

v. i.
To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.

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'89rial 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 infated ball. [Obs.] 6. (Engraving) The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure. Air balloon, a balloon for a'89rial 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.

Balloon

Bal*loon", v. t. To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.

Balloon

Bal*loon", v. i. 1. To go up or voyage in a balloon. 2. To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.

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'89rial navigation.

To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.

To go up or voyage in a balloon.

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Usage Examples

All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.