Balloon

What do we mean by balloon?

A flexible bag designed to be inflated with hot air or with a gas, such as helium, that is lighter than the surrounding air, causing it to rise and float in the atmosphere. noun

Such a bag with sufficient capacity to lift and transport a suspended gondola or other load. noun

Such a bag shaped like a figure or object when inflated; an inflatable. noun

A usually round or oblong inflatable rubber bag used as a toy or decoration. noun

An inflatable device that is inserted into a body cavity or structure and distended with air or gas for therapeutic purposes, such as angioplasty. noun

A rounded or irregularly shaped outline containing the words that a character in a cartoon is represented to be saying. noun

A balloon payment. noun

To ascend or ride in a balloon. intransitive verb

To expand or swell out like a balloon. synonym: bulge. intransitive verb

To increase or rise quickly. intransitive verb

To cause to expand by or as if by inflating. intransitive verb

Suggestive of a balloon, as in shape. adjective

In cricket and base-ball, a lofty hit which gives a fielder the chance to catch a batsman out. noun

In spinning, the convex curve assumed by yarn on a ring-frame. noun

A state barge of Siam, made in fanciful imitation of a sea-monster, and having 70 to 100 oars on a side. noun

To carry up or transport in, or as in, a balloon.

To distend with air, gas, or water, as the abdomen in tympanites, or the rectum or vagina with specially constructed apparatus.

To make ascents in a balloon.

To swell out like a balloon; in ring-spinning, to fly outward centrifugally from the spindle: said of yarn.

An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.

Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.

Such an object designed to transport people through the air.

A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.

A speech bubble.

A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.

A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.

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.

(engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.

A woman's breast.

A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.

Words that are spelled similarly to balloon:
balloon, walloon, galloon, ballon, baloon.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word balloon:
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Words that rhyme with balloon:
moon, boon, tune, impugn, troon, spoon, swoon, maroon, prune, goon, soon, buffoon, rune, immune, loon, monsoon, lampoon, cocoon, lagoon, commune, cartoon, strewn, tycoon, picayune, noon, dune, coon, festoon, attune, typhoon, opportune, croon, afternoon, saloon, hewn, raccoon, noone, pontoon, harpoon, poon, platoon, honeymoon, baboon, toon, june, bassoon, boone, pantaloon, shoon, midafternoon, blue moon, cameroon, inopportune, sassoon, hoon, galloon, muldoon, cardoon, shewn, calhoun, rangoon, koon, kuhn, contrabassoon, full moon, tablespoon, teaspoon, bethune, clune, saskatoon, harvest moon, kroon, suine, witherspoon, cancun, jeune, laffoon, high noon, daniel boone, yoon, good afternoon, new moon, brune, suen, silver spoon, phase of the moon, gruen, greasy spoon, magoon, shoen, mattoon, signature tune, moone, calhoon, sand dune, animated cartoon, cahoon, terhune, ducommun, karun.

Adjectives that are often used to describe balloon:
inflated, hot, small, captive, large, filled, red, aortic, big, deflated, gastric, free, intraaortic, inflatable, huge, spherical, double, pricked, punctured, shaped, larger, yellow, giant, blue, detachable, tethered, rectal, empty, fire, distal, german, tiny, oesophageal, ordinary, pink, kite, percutaneous, green, enormous, round, collapsed, smaller, navigable, bright, thin, beautiful, proximal, largest, pressure, colored, soft, foot, elongated, intragastric, sized, popped, distended, unmanned, manned, mylar, cylindrical, compliant, gigantic, meteorological, inner, plastic, dirigible, overinflated, transparent, uninflated, immense, air, door, coronary.

Consonant match to balloon:
beeline, byline, berlin, baleen, bowline, boleyn, bellon, b-line, ballon, belen, balun, bellin, baloon, ballin, by-line, billon, boulogne, bilin, boline, bullon, bollen, balan, belluine, bee line, bullen, bolan, balin, boylan, belin, balon, belon, by line, bolen, bolin, bohlen, bollin, bailon, bolon, bowlin, bale on, b line, bowlen, baylon, baylen, bail in, bail on, baile in, bailin, bailyn, bal in, bala in, bale in, ball in, ball line, ball on, balla in, bawl in, bayle in, bayle on, beal in, beale in, beilin, bel in, bela in, bell in, bell inn, bell on, bella in, bellah in, belle in, belle on, berle in, biel in, bielen, bil in, bile in, bill in, bo linh, boal in, bohlin, boil in, bole in, boll in, boole in, boule in, bow lane, bowl in, bowl on, boyle in, boylen, bulen, bull in, bull inn, bull on, bulla in, burleigh in.

Words that sound like balloon:
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