balloon
Speech parts
1. balloon - Noun
2. balloon - Verb
Meaning
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.
A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.
A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
A bomb or shell.
A game played with a large inflated ball.
The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
To go up or voyage in a balloon.
To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
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Examples
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
Seeing John Major govern the country is like watching Edward Scissorhands try to make balloon animals.
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.
Hands, do what you're bid Bring the balloon of the mind That bellies and drags in the wind Into its narrow shed.
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.