balloon
球囊,热气球,气球,水球
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Definitions
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- : a bag made of thin rubber or other light material, usually brightly colored, inflated with air or with some lighter-than-air gas and used as a children's plaything or as a decoration.
- : a bag made of a light material, as silk or plastic, filled with heated air or a gas lighter than air, designed to rise and float in the atmosphere and often having a car or gondola attached below for carrying passengers or scientific instruments.
- : a balloon-shaped outline enclosing words represented as issuing from the mouth of the speaker.
- : an ornamental ball at the top of a pillar, pier, or the like.
- : a large, globular wineglass.
- : Chemistry Now Rare. a round-bottomed flask.
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- : to go up or ride in a balloon.
- : to swell or puff out like a balloon.
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Phrases
- balloon goes up, the
- go over (like a lead balloon)
- trial balloon
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Yet the costs of law enforcement are ballooning and, according to City Council members, unsustainable.
Zhong isn’t the only one whose fortune has ballooned from Nongfu’s trading debut.
Perhaps this is why search interest in SEO itself, which was largely stagnant from mid-2017 to early this year, has ballooned.
In a brief moment of rapid expansion, that burst of energy inflated the cosmos like a balloon.
Future satellites or weather balloons could provide data on whether this has happened, says Pengfei Yu.
He was like an un-tied balloon that had been inflated and immediately released.
She had grown so perfect and gentle and consoling that it was unbearable, she was a big, round smooth balloon without a face.
The Great Texas Balloon Race on July 29th-August 4th feature daily races with some of the best balloon pilot talent in the game.
Manned, unmanned, a balloon, a kite—you still have to get the information into the hands of the firefighters.
This was a tethered reconnaissance balloon, as first used 220 years ago in the French Revolutionary War.
For, at that moment Squinty stood up on his hind legs, as the boy had taught him, and walked over toward the big balloon basket.
Squinty cuddled down in the basket of the balloon, between two bags full of something, and shivered.