Balloon - English meaning

bəˈluːn

Balloon – definitions in English dictionary

noun
A small coloured rubber bag that is inflated with air and then sealed at the neck, used as a child's toy or a decoration.
Usage examples:
The room was festooned with balloons and streamers

verb
A small coloured rubber bag which is inflated with air and then sealed at the neck, used as a child's toy or a decoration.
Usage examples:
The room was festooned with balloons and streamers
verb
A large bag filled with hot air or gas to make it rise in the air, typically one carrying a basket for passengers.
Usage examples:
He set his sights on crossing the pacific by balloon
Synonims:
Hot-air balloonFire balloonBarrage balloonWeather balloonAirshipDirigibleZeppelinMontgolfierEnvelopeGasbagBlimp
verb
A rounded outline in which the words or thoughts of characters in a comic strip or cartoon are written.
Usage examples:
A balloon reading ‘ka-pow!’
verb
A large rounded drinking glass, used especially for brandy.
Usage examples:
A balloon of armagnac
verb
A stupid person.
verb
Swell out in a spherical shape.
Usage examples:
The trousers ballooned out below his waist
Synonims:
Swell (out)Puff out/upBulge (out)BagBelly (out)Fill (out)Billow (out)Blow upInflateDistendExpandDilate
verb
(with reference to a ball) lob or be lobbed high in the air.
Usage examples:
The ball ballooned into the air
verb
Travel by hot-air balloon.
Usage examples:
He is famous for ballooning across oceans

noun
A small, thin rubber bag that you blow air into or fill with a light gas until it is round in shape, used for decoration, as a children's toy, or for other purposes such as medical treatment or scientific research
Usage examples:
We tied balloons and streamers to the ceiling ready for the party., angioplasty is a medical proced…

noun
A very large balloon that is filled with hot air or gas and can carry people in a basket (= open container ) hanging under it
Usage examples:
People first flew in a balloon in 1783.

noun
A round shape drawn next to the head of a character in a cartoon (= a story or joke told using drawings), in which the character's words or thoughts are written
Usage examples:
The words appear inside a cartoon-style balloon hovering above the figures., he produced many of th…

verb
To quickly increase in size, weight, or importance
Usage examples:
Medical costs are likely to balloon for families as life spans increase., the rumours soon balloone…

verb
To get bigger and rounder, usually by filling with air
Usage examples:
The silk of the parachute ballooned above me.

verb
To travel using a hot-air balloon
Usage examples:
He planned to become the first person to balloon over the north pole.

Balloon translation into English

Balloon: translate from English into Chinese

气球, 气圈

Balloon: translate from English into Dutch

Ballon, Luchtballon, Bol

Balloon: translate from English into French

Ballon, Gonfler, Bulle, Aérostat, Être ballonné

Balloon: translate from English into German

Ballon, Luftballon, Sprechblase, Blase

Balloon: translate from English into Hindi

गुब्बारा, बैलून, संचयक, बेलून

Balloon: translate from English into Italian

Palloncino, Pallone, Aerostato, Fumetto

Balloon: translate from English into Korean

풍선, 기구, 부푼, 구슬 장식, 부풀게 하다, 풍선꼴 윤곽

Balloon: translate from English into Russian

Воздушный шар, Баллон, Аэростат, Подниматься на воздушном шаре, Раздуваться, Кружок, Неуправляемый аэростат, Надувать

Balloon: translate from English into Spanish

Globo, Balón, Bola, Matraz, Copa, Hincharse, Ir en globo, Subir rápidamente

Word origin

late 16th century (originally denoting a game played with a large inflated leather ball): from French ballon or Italian ballone ‘large ball’.

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Balloon – similar words

ballooned

bəˈluːn

verb
Swell out in a spherical shape.
Usage examples:
The trousers ballooned out below his waist

noun
A small coloured rubber bag that is inflated with air and then sealed at the neck, used as a child's toy or a decoration.
Usage examples:
The room was festooned with balloons and streamers

noun
A large bag filled with hot air or gas to make it rise in the air, typically one carrying a basket for passengers.
Usage examples:
He set his sights on crossing the pacific by balloon

Ballooned - all meanings in English

Balloon synonims

airship

ˈeə.ʃɪp

noun
A power-driven aircraft that is kept buoyant by a body of gas (usually helium, formerly hydrogen) which is lighter than air.
Usage examples:
Academics are developing ways to replace satellites and mobile telephone masts with solar-powered a…

noun
A large aircraft without wings, used especially in the past, consisting of a large bag filled with gas that is lighter than air and driven by engines. passengers were carried in a structure hanging below.

Airship - all meanings in English

bag

bæɡ

noun
A flexible container with an opening at the top, used for carrying things.
Usage examples:
He arrived at the children's ward carrying a bag full of toys for the young patients

verb
Put (something) in a bag.
Usage examples:
Customers bagged their own groceries

noun
A soft container made out of paper or thin plastic, and open at the top, used to hold foods and other goods
Usage examples:
A paper/plastic bag, a bag of apples/nuts, don't eat that whole bag of (= the amount the bag contai…

Bag - all meanings in English

blimp

blɪmp

noun
A pompous, reactionary type of person.
Usage examples:
You'll still find colonel blimps at local party level

noun
An aircraft without wings, consisting of a very large bag that is filled with gas and has a structure attached to the bottom in which people ride, which moves and turns under power provided by engines

noun
A large aircraft without wings, consisting of a large bag filled with gas that is lighter than air and driven by engines. in the past passengers were carried in a structure hanging below.

Blimp - all meanings in English

Blow Up

phrasal verb
Explode.
Usage examples:
The car blew up as soon as it hit the wall

phrasal verb
Lose one's temper.
Usage examples:
Mum had blown up at dad with more than her usual vehemence

phrasal verb
Inflate.
Usage examples:
My stomach had started to blow up

Blow up - all meanings in English

dilate

daɪˈleɪt

verb
Make or become wider, larger, or more open.
Usage examples:
Her eyes dilated with horror

verb
To become or make something, esp. an opening, wider or more open
Usage examples:
[ t ] the doctor put drops in my eyes to dilate the pupils.

verb
To (cause a part of the body to) become wider or further open
Usage examples:
The pupils of the eyes dilate as darkness increases., this drug will dilate the arteries.

Dilate - all meanings in English

dirigible

ˈdɪ.rɪ.dʒə.bəl

adjective
Capable of being steered, guided, or directed.
Usage examples:
A dirigible spotlight

noun
An airship.
Usage examples:
Within the bureau and the fleet, moffett concentrated on the development of patrol and scouting sea…

noun
A large aircraft without wings, consisting of a large bag filled with gas that is lighter than air and driven by engines. the pilot, passengers, etc. travel in a structure hanging below.

Dirigible - all meanings in English

distend

dɪˈstend

verb
Swell or cause to swell by pressure from inside.
Usage examples:
The abdomen distended rapidly

verb
(usually of the stomach or another part of the body) to swell and become large, especially because of pressure from inside
Usage examples:
During digestion, sugar may produce wind that distends the stomach., the medication i take causes m…

Distend - all meanings in English

envelope

ˈen.və.ləʊp

noun
A flat paper container with a sealable flap, used to enclose a letter or document.
Usage examples:
They are all instant communications that are far less bother than putting pen to paper, finding an …

noun
A usually rectangular paper container for a letter
Usage examples:
Don’t forget to put a stamp on the envelope.

noun
A flat, usually square or rectangular, paper container for a letter
Usage examples:
A brown/manila envelope, a sealed envelope, the papers were handed to me in a transparent plastic e…

Envelope - all meanings in English

expand

ɪkˈspænd

verb
Become or make larger or more extensive.
Usage examples:
Their business expanded into other hotels

verb
Extend in one or more directions

verb
To increase something in size, number, or importance
Usage examples:
[ i ] the air in the balloon expands when heated., [ t ] they expanded their number of stores signi…

Expand - all meanings in English

gasbag

ˈɡæs.bæɡ

noun
A person who talks excessively about trivial things.
Usage examples:
Wearisome gasbags with delusions of grandeur

noun
A person who always talks too much

Gasbag - all meanings in English

inflate

ɪnˈfleɪt

verb
Fill (a balloon, tyre, or other expandable structure) with air or gas so that it becomes distended.
Usage examples:
Never use an air line on a garage forecourt to inflate your tyres

verb
To cause an object to increase in size and shape by filling it with air or gas, or (of an object) to become larger as a result of this process
Usage examples:
[ t ] to inflate balloons, [ i ] air bags in cars are designed to inflate automatically on impact.,…

verb
To increase the value or price of something, or to become more valuable or expensive
Usage examples:
People who bought homes years ago have seen the values inflate and property taxes rise with the inf…

Inflate - all meanings in English

montgolfier

proper noun
Joseph michel (1740–1810) and jacques étienne (1745–99), french inventors and pioneers in hot-air ballooning. in 1782 they built a large balloon from linen and paper and successfully lifted a number of animals; the first human ascents followed in 1783.

Montgolfier - all meanings in English

zeppelin

noun
A large german dirigible airship of the early 20th century, long and cylindrical in shape and with a rigid framework. zeppelins were used during the first world war for reconnaissance and bombing, and after the war as passenger transports until the 1930s.
Usage examples:
Relics from a golden age of flight when zeppelins and airships ruled the skies have been on sale at…

noun
A large airship (= an aircraft without wings, containing gas to make it lighter than air, and with an engine)

Zeppelin - all meanings in English

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