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balloon
  1. An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
  2. Such an object as a child’s toy.
  3. Such an object designed to transport people through the air.
  4. (medicine) A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
  5. A speech bubble.
  6. A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
  7. (architecture) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
  8. (chemistry) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
  9. (pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell.
  10. (obsolete) A game played with a large inflated ball.
  11. (engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
  12. (slang) A woman’s breast.
  13. Synonyms:
  14. Examples:
    1. “We watched the balloon rise into the summer sky to a great cheer.”
      “Once a speech balloon points its tail to its speaker, that character seems more alive.”
ballooning
ballooner
  1. A balloonist.
  2. A type of sail.
  3. Examples:
    1. “My mood favorably changed, I vowed to hang up my career as a mad ballooner once and for all.”
      “What if I'm really wealthy and I need to find that perfect gift for the hot air ballooner in my life?”
ballonet
  1. Any of several small balloons, inside a dirigible, that can be inflated or deflated to control buoyancy during flight.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The pressure inside the ballonet acts on the helium inside the envelope to maintain the shape.”
      “The altitude at which all air has been removed from the ballonet is referred to as the pressure altitude.”
      “The helicopter is fitted with ballonet flotation devices for emergency landing on water.”
ballonnement
  1. (surgery) The ballooning or distending of a part of the body for operative or diagnostic purposes.
balloonist
  1. A person who flies in balloons, especially in hot-air balloons.
  2. Examples:
    1. “At that very moment the bull reaches the balloonist and tosses him over the fence.”
      “But as a balloonist, you learn that the atmosphere is made up of several different layers of wind, which all blow in a different direction.”
      “From 1862 to 1866 he made twenty-eight ascents, with Henry Coxwell as his balloonist.”
balloonry
  1. (dated) The art or practice of ascending in a balloon; aeronautics.
balloonings
balloonists
  1. plural of balloonist
  2. Examples:
    1. “Ten balloons from around the nation took part in the Night Glow, a display event, where balloonists inflate anchored balloons on dusk.”
      “A skilled team of experienced balloonists make sure that the exciting experience is completely safe.”
      “The geographical location and weather conditions allowed balloonists to practice their sport in ideal conditions.”
ballooners
  1. plural of ballooner
  2. Examples:
    1. “As inspired ballooners we regularly participate in national and international balloon events.”
      “Affectionately known as Repack, the road had been popular with local ballooners for years.”
      “So the champagne was instead shared by the ballooners in a party after returning to the launch site.”
ballonets
  1. plural of ballonet
  2. Examples:
    1. “As a rigid airship, it had no need of ballonets, which are used only in pressure airships, or blimps.”
      “Prior art methods of pressurizing and filling the ballonets typically involved the use of ram air scoops.”
      “Unless perfectly synchronized, dual ballonets tend to tip the craft toward the tail or nose.”
balloons
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