meaning of balloon
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 aerial navigation.
2. A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc. , as at St. Pauls, in London.
3. A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
4. A bomb or shell.
5. A game played with a large inflated ball.
6. The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
7. To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
8. To go up or voyage in a balloon.
9. To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
10. A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish.
Related Words
balloon | ballooned | ballooner | ballooning | balloonist | balloonry |
