'Balloon' definitions:
Definition of 'balloon'
(from WordNet)
noun
Large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air
noun
Small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck
verb
Ride in a hot-air balloon; "He tried to balloon around the earth but storms forced him to land in China"
verb
Definition of 'Balloon'
From: GCIDE
- Balloon \Bal*loon"\, v. t. To take up in, or as if in, a balloon. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Balloon'
From: GCIDE
- Balloon \Bal*loon"\, v. i.
- 1. To go up or voyage in a balloon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To expand, or puff out, like a balloon. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Balloon'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Arch.) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Chem.) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 5. A game played with a large inflated ball. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Engraving) The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'balloon'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Graf Zeppelin,
- 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
Words containing 'Balloon'
- Ballooned,
- Ballooner,
- Ballooning,
- Air balloon,
- Balloon frame,
- Balloon net,
- Ballooning spider,
- Fire balloon,
- Passive balloon,
- Pilot balloon,
- Sounding balloon,
- balloon bomb,
- balloon fish,
- balloon flower,
- balloon sail,
- balloon seat,
- balloon vine,
- barrage balloon,
- kite balloon,
- meteorological balloon,
- sausage balloon,
- trial balloon,
- hot-air balloon