BALLOON
\bəlˈuːn], \bəlˈuːn], \b_ə_l_ˈuː_n]\
Definitions of BALLOON
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck
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become inflated; "The sails ballooned"
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large tough non-rigid bag filled with gas or heated air
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ride in a hot-air balloon; "He tried to balloon around the earth but storms forced him to land in China"
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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 aerial navigation.
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A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.
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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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A bomb or shell.
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A game played with a large inflated ball.
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The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
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To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
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To go up or voyage in a balloon.
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To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
By Oddity Software
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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 aerial navigation.
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A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.
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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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A bomb or shell.
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A game played with a large inflated ball.
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The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
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To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
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To go up or voyage in a balloon.
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To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
By Noah Webster.
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A large bag of prepared silk or other material, which, when filled with a lighter-than-air gas such as hydrogen, ascends and floats in the atmosphere; a large, inflated ball.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A large bag, made of light material, and filled with a gas lighter than common air, so as to make it ascend.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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