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n. A flexible bag designed to be inflated with hot air or with a gas, such as helium, that is lighter than the surrounding air, causing it to rise and float in the atmosphere.

n. Such a bag with sufficient capacity to lift and transport a suspended gondola or other load.

n. Such a bag shaped like a figure or object when inflated; an inflatable.

n. A usually round or oblong inflatable rubber bag used as a toy.

n. Medicine A sac that is inserted into a body cavity or tube and distended with air or gas for therapeutic purposes, such as angioplasty.

n. A rounded or irregularly shaped outline containing the words that a character in a cartoon is represented to be saying.

verb-intransitive. To ascend or ride in a balloon.

verb-intransitive. To expand or swell out like a balloon. See Synonyms at bulge.

verb-intransitive. To increase or rise quickly.

v. To cause to expand by or as if by inflating.

adj. Suggestive of a balloon, as in shape: balloon curtains.

n. An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.

n. Such an object as a child’s toy.

n. Such an object designed to transport people through the air.

n. A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.

n. A speech bubble.

n. A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.

v. To increase or expand rapidly.

v. To go up or voyage in a balloon.

n. 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 aërial navigation.

n. A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.

n. A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.

n. A bomb or shell.

n. A game played with a large inflated ball.

n. The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.

v. To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.

verb-intransitive. To go up or voyage in a balloon.

verb-intransitive. To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.

n. A large inflated ball of leather, used in playing certain games; a game played with such a ball.

n. In chem., a round vessel with a short neck, used as a receiver in distillation; a glass receiver of a spherical form.

n. In architecture, a ball or globe on the top of a pillar.

n. In pyrotechnics, a ball of pasteboard or a kind of bomb stuffed with combustibles, which, bursting like a bomb, exhibits sparks of fire like stars.

n. In weaving, a cylindrical reel on which sized woolen yarn for warp is wound in order to be dried by rapid revolution in a heated chamber.

n. A bag or hollow vessel filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, or any other gaseous fluid lighter than common air, and thus caused to rise and float in the atmosphere.

n. In comic engravings, a figure shaped like a balloon and inclosing words which are represented as issuing from the mouth of a speaker.

n. A state barge of Siam, made in fanciful imitation of a sea-monster, and having 70 to 100 oars on a side.

n. In cricket and base-ball, a lofty hit which gives a fielder the chance to catch a batsman out.

n. In spinning, the convex curve assumed by yarn on a ring-frame.

To carry up or transport in, or as in, a balloon.

To distend with air, gas, or water, as the abdomen in tympanites, or the rectum or vagina with specially constructed apparatus.

To make ascents in a balloon.

To swell out like a balloon; in ring-spinning, to fly outward centrifugally from the spindle: said of yarn.

n. large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air

n. small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck

v. become inflated

v. ride in a hot-air balloon

""I shall," says he, "make a balloon -- the _last balloon_ -- in proportions extraordinarily gigantic, twenty times larger than the largest, which shall realise that which has never been but a dream in the American journals, which shall attract, in France, England, and America, the crowd always ready to run to witness the most insignificant ascent."

ballooned    ballooning    balloons   

toy    plaything    fly    pilot    aviate   

captive balloon    registration balloon    steering balloon    airship    zeppelin    gondola    dirigible    ball    blimp    ballonet   

toy    montgolfier    hot-air balloon    fumetto    speech bubble   

Bethune    Boone    Calhoun    June    Karun    Kuhn    Moon    Noone    Rangoon    Sassoon   

bubble    rocket    parachute    tank    airplane    toy    ball    lantern    globe    dome