balloon
nomverbecourant dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//bəˈluːn//
- Royaume-Uni//bəˈlʉwn//
- États-Unis//bəˈlun//
- Australie//bəˈlʉːn//
- Écosse//bəˈlʉn//
An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
nom
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An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
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Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.
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Such an object designed to transport people or equipment through the air.
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A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
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A speech bubble.
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A wide rounded glass with a stem and foot, used for wine, brandy, etc.
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A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
the balloon of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London
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A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
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A bomb or shell.
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obsolèteA game played with a large inflated ball.
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The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
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argotA woman's breast.
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argotA small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.
And all I had to do in return was take a drive up to Ricardo's place on the way home and then a pretty edgy one back to Rondebosch with a balloon of coke sandwiched between two pairs of underpants.
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Synonym of balloon payment.
The purpose of the balloon is to reduce the periodic payment required during the life of the financing period.
Étymologie
First use appears c. 1591, "a game played with a large, inflated leather ball" (possibly via Middle French ballon) from Italian pallone (“large ball”) from palla (“ball”), from Lombardic *palla. The Northern Italian form, balla (“ball-shaped bundle”), today a doublet, likely derived from Old French balle, from Frankish *balla (“ball”), and may have influenced the spelling of this word. Both Germanic words are from Proto-Germanic *ballô (“ball”), *balluz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoln- (“bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”). Akin to Old High German ballo, bal (“ball”), (German Ballen (“bale”); Ball "ball"). Doublet of ballon. More at ball.
verbe
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To increase or expand rapidly.
His stomach ballooned from eating such a large meal.
Prices will balloon if we don't act quickly.
For the franchise’s ballooning, unmanageable cast of mutants, picking sides now seems to have less to do with choosing between cooperation (which the recent movies implicitly distrust) and resistance, and more with whichever flashback-prone white dude’s overbearing savior complex works for you.
ScotRail has long been run at a significant subsidy, with only the Edinburgh-Glasgow express line making a profit from fares, but government support has ballooned since the start of the pandemic.
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To go up or voyage in a balloon.
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To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
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To inflate like a balloon.
A puff of wind from the open door caught and ballooned the scanties; off they sailed, out the window billowing into freedom.
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To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
After four minutes, leading goalscorer Haworth slid in but ballooned the ball over from six yards, and Hume then outran the defence to get to the by-line, but he could only hit his cross straight out.
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Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down.
The plane ballooned into the air about 20 feet, banging down again for another good-sized hop.
Formes
- pluriel
- balloons
- passé
- ballooned
- participe passé
- ballooned
- participe présent
- ballooning
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- balloons
balloon · An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
ballot · A small ball placed in a container to cast a vote; now, by…ballpark · A field, stadium or park where ball, especially baseball, is…ballroom · A large room used for dancing and banquets.