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Definition of Balloon

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. Related Definitions: Aerial, Air, And, As, At, Atmosphere, Attached, Bag, Ball, Balloon, Bomb, Car, Church, Coming, Distilled, Especially, Expand, Figure, Filled, Float, For, Form, From, Game, Gas, Glass, Globe, Go, Heated, Hold, Hydrogen, If, In, Inclosing, Inflated, Is, Large, Like, London, Light, Made, Material, Mouth, Navigation, Neck, Of, On, One, Or, Other, Out, Outline, Paul, Pictured, Pillar, Played, Puff, Receive, Rise, Round, Shell, Short, Silk, So, Spherical, Take, The, To, Top, Up, Vessel, Voyage, Whatever, With

Balloon Quotations 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 Another term for balloon is bad breath holder. Demetri Martin 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 Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. Walter Lippmann

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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