Definition of Balloon

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Balloon

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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Balloon Quotations

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.
Richard Branson

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.
Richard Branson

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
Henry Ward Beecher

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
Walter Lippmann

Another term for balloon is bad breath holder.
Demetri Martin

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.
Robyn Hitchcock

If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free.
Jane Birkin

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.
Kim Basinger

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
Gene Fowler

Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.
Thandie Newton

Balloon Translations

balloon in Danish is ballon
balloon in Dutch is ballon, luchtballon
balloon in German is Sprechblase, Ballon, Ballon {m}
balloon in Norwegian is ballong
balloon in Spanish is globo
balloon in Swedish is ballong

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