'Ballooning' definitions:
Definition of 'ballooning'
(from WordNet)
noun
Flying in a balloon
Definition of 'Ballooning'
From: GCIDE
- Ballooning \Bal*loon"ing\, n.
- 1. The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them; the sport of riding in balloons.
- Syn: balloonry (archaic) [1913 Webster +PJC]
- 2. (Stock Exchange) The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales. [U.S.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'ballooning'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- access,
- accession,
- accretion,
- accrual,
- accruement,
- accumulation,
- addition,
- advance,
- aeronautics,
- aggrandizement,
- air service,
- airline,
- amplification,
- appreciation,
- ascent,
- astronautics,
- augmentation,
- aviation,
- bagging,
- baggy,
- bellying,
- billowing,
- billowy,
- blind flying,
- bloated,
- bloating,
- boom,
- boost,
- bosomy,
- broadening,
- buildup,
- bulbose,
- bulbous,
- bulging,
- bumped,
- bumpy,
- bunched,
- bunchy,
- cloud-seeding,
- commercial aviation,
- contact flying,
- crescendo,
- cruising,
- development,
- distended,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- edema,
- elevation,
- enlargement,
- expansion,
- extension,
- flight,
- flood,
- floppy,
- flying,
- gain,
- general aviation,
- gliding,
- greatening,
- growth,
- gush,
- hike,
- hillocky,
- hummocky,
- increase,
- increment,
- inflation,
- jump,
- leap,
- limp,
- loose,
- lop,
- lop-eared,
- loppy,
- mounting,
- moutonnee,
- multiplication,
- nodding,
- pilotage,
- pneumatic,
- potbellied,
- pouching,
- productiveness,
- proliferation,
- raise,
- rise,
- rounded,
- sagging,
- sagging in folds,
- saggy,
- sailing,
- sailplaning,
- snowballing,
- soaring,
- spread,
- surge,
- swag,
- swelling,
- tumescence,
- up,
- upping,
- upsurge,
- upswing,
- uptrend,
- upturn,
- verrucated,
- verrucose,
- warty,
- waxing,
- widening,
- winging
Words containing 'Ballooning'
- Balloon,
- Ballooned,
- Ballooner,
- 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