balloon1 nounballoon2 verb
balloonbal‧loon1 /bəˈluːn/ ●●○ noun [countable] 
WORD ORIGINballoon1
Origin:
1500-1600 French ballon ‘large football, balloon’, from Italian ballone ‘large football’, from balla ‘ball’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- hot air balloon rides
- A good cabinet officer will take a policy proposal, put a trial balloon out.
- For this design knit the single teddy starting on the seventh stitch to avoid knitting part of the balloon.
- I sail up the hill and along Hyde Hill Lane as if I were a balloon.
- It will be years before I will understand the significance of these little balloons.
- No cardiologist would insert a balloon.
- Tell the students to blow up the balloon and then tape the straw to the balloon.
- The balloons drop at midnight, and free champagne and party favors are included with your ticket.
- They're holding a huge festival in September with 70 balloons.
WORD SETS
aerial, adjectiveaero-, prefixaerobatics, nounaerodrome, nounaeronautics, nounairborne, adjectiveaircraft, nounaircrew, nounairfare, nounairfield, nounairline, nounairliner, nounair pocket, nounairport, nounairship, nounairsick, adjectiveairspace, nounairspeed, nounairstrip, nounair terminal, nounair traffic controller, nounairway, nounairworthy, adjectivealtimeter, nounapron, nounautomatic pilot, nounautopilot, nounaviation, nounaviator, nounballast, nounballoon, nounballooning, nounbank, verbbarrage balloon, nounbiplane, nounblack box, nounblimp, nounboarding card, nounboarding pass, nounbulkhead, nounbusiness class, nounbuzz, verbcabin, nouncaptain, nouncarousel, nounceiling, nouncharter flight, nouncheck-in, nounchock, nounchopper, nounchute, nounclub class, nouncontrail, nouncontrol tower, nounco-pilot, nouncowling, nouncraft, nouncrash landing, noundeparture lounge, noundepartures board, noundirigible, noundisembark, verbdive, verbeconomy class, nouneject, verbejector seat, nounfin, nounflap, nounflier, nounflight, nounflight attendant, nounflight deck, nounflight path, nounflight recorder, nounflight simulator, nounfly, verbflyby, nounflyer, nounflying, nounflypast, nounfree fall, nounfuselage, noungate, nounglider, noungliding, noungondola, nounground, verbground control, nounground crew, nounground staff, nounhangar, nounhang-glider, nounhang-gliding, nounhelicopter, nounhelicopter pad, nounheliport, nounhijacking, nounholding pattern, nounhot-air balloon, nounhydroplane, nouninbound, adjectivein-flight, adjectiveinstrument panel, nounjet, nounjet engine, nounjet-propelled, adjectivejet propulsion, nounjoystick, nounjumbo jet, nounjump jet, nounland, verblanding gear, nounlanding strip, nounlayover, nounlift, nounlight aircraft, nounlounge, nounlow-flying, adjectivemicrolight, nounmonoplane, nounnavigation, nounno-fly zone, nounnose, nounnosedive, nounnosedive, verboverfly, verbparachute, nounparachute, verbparachutist, nounpilot, nounpilot, verbpitch, nounpitch, verbplane, nounplot, verbpod, nounpressurized, adjectiveprop, nounpropeller, nounradio beacon, nounrefuel, verbripcord, nounroll, verbroll, nounrotor, nounrudder, nounrunway, nounseaplane, nounseat belt, nounshort-haul, adjectiveski plane, nounskycap, nounsonic boom, nounspoiler, nounsteward, nounstewardess, nounstrut, nounswept-back, adjectiveswoop, verbtail, nountailspin, nountake-off, nountaxi, verbterminal, nountest pilot, nounthrust, nountouchdown, nountransit lounge, nountransport plane, nounturbojet, nounturboprop, nountwin-engined, adjectiveundercarriage, nounupgrade, verbvapour trail, nounwheel, verbwindsock, nounwind tunnel, nounwing, nounwingspan, nounwingtip, nounzeppelin, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
Can you help me blow up these balloons? He burst the balloon in my face. a balloon flight over the Yorkshire MoorsCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Can you blow up this balloon? The idea went down like a lead balloon (=was not popular or successful).COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
Can you help me blow up these balloons? He burst the balloon in my face. a balloon flight over the Yorkshire Moors Can you blow up this balloon? The idea went down like a lead balloon (=was not popular or successful).· The steel rope had to be used because a normal tight rope wouldn't keep taut between two unpredictable hot air balloons.· Read in studio A rather unusual hot air balloon has completed its maiden voyage.· Vologsky might as well try to take off and escape in a hot air balloon.· Is it not yet another of the Secretary of State's hot air balloons?· Read in studio Five hundred homes had their power supplies cut when a hot air balloon collided with high voltage cables.· Read in studio A world record has been set for tight rope walking between two hot air balloons.
· The winch man was running out the cable, allowing the barrage balloon to rise.· Through his window, Carrington could see a silver barrage balloon, rising slowly on its cable into the clear blue sky.· They flew barrage balloons, commissioned perspectives and held a public inquiry.· Cider and Guinness had given him a barrage balloon for a stomach.· Do you remember barrage balloons Bobbing around like airborne swine?· It was now quite clear that barrage balloons were much more a hindrance than a help to London.
· Visual effects feature largely in this community arts venture, and have included helium balloons and fireworks.· People left the auditorium that morning trailing their doubts behind them like children dragging exhausted helium balloons.· I wish people would stop buying helium balloons and letting them go.· Breastfeeding does perky things to some women's statistics, but it left mine looking like two well-past-their-sell-by-date helium balloons.
· Normally following that kind of response the ramp idea would go down like a lead balloon.· Anyway these questions go down like a lead balloon.
VERB· You look like you have blown up like a balloon and you feel that you are a complete dieting failure.· Tell the students to blow up the balloon and then tape the straw to the balloon.· Work quickly or keep the cutting material in a plastic bag blown up like a balloon and sealed.· But there are two ways of blowing up a balloon.· There was a game where you blew up balloons and sat on them.· The first players then have to blow the balloons back for the second person to take over.
· The soldier, becoming bored with the game, laconically reached out his cigarette end and burst the balloon in my face.· As soon as they succeed the next person in the team bursts her balloon and the game continues until everyone has finished.· Dad was better than anyone; he burst six balloons, one after the other.
· It is an elevating experience filling gas balloons for the Christmas party.· It's a helium filled balloon with a kite attached.· Water babies Fill balloons with warm water and knot the tops securely.
· We all started to inflate our balloons and eventually one burst.· The final piece that we have to add is the generation of pressure without having to inflate a balloon to start with.
· The former Teesside Polytechnic celebrated its name change by releasing hundreds of balloons into the sky above Middlesbrough.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1- Use the loan to pay off the balloon payment.
- We don't want you being left behind in Mbarara if the balloon goes up.
an object made of brightly coloured thin rubber, that is filled with air and used as a toy or decoration for parties: Can you help me blow up these balloons? He burst the balloon in my face.2 (also hot-air balloon) a large bag of strong light cloth filled with gas or heated air so that it can float in the air. It has a basket hanging below it for people to stand in: a balloon flight over the Yorkshire Moors3the circle drawn around the words spoken by the characters in a cartoon SYN bubble4a balloon payment American English money borrowed that must be paid back in one large sum after several smaller payments have been made: a $10,000 balloon payment due in two years5the balloon goes up British English informal used to refer to the moment when a situation starts to become really bad: We’ll have to get out of there before the balloon goes up. → go down like a lead balloon at lead3(3)balloon1 nounballoon2 verb
balloonballoon2 (also balloon out) verb [intransitive] VERB TABLE
balloon
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | balloon |
| he, she, it | balloons | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | ballooned |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have ballooned |
| he, she, it | has ballooned | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had ballooned |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will balloon |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have ballooned |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am ballooning |
| he, she, it | is ballooning | |
| you, we, they | are ballooning | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was ballooning |
| you, we, they | were ballooning | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been ballooning |
| he, she, it | has been ballooning | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been ballooning |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be ballooning |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been ballooning |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- He ballooned to 300 pounds since college.
- The program's cost has ballooned from $270 million to more than $1 billion.
- As firms' share of total deposits has ballooned, so Sberbank's relative power has shrivelled.
- Even as the black population ballooned, whites kept control of the City Council.
- He looked at Angelina and overate, the right side of his. face ballooned like a heavyweight squirrel.
- In recent years, the local police force has ballooned from two officers to 11.
- In this view, hot, insulated mantle wells up beneath a supercontinent, causing it to balloon upward.
- Worse, hard drives in recent years have ballooned in size.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Can you blow up this balloon? The idea went down like a lead balloon (=was not popular or successful).
1to suddenly become larger in amount SYN explode: Can you blow up this balloon? The idea went down like a lead balloon (=was not popular or successful). The company’s debt has ballooned in the past year.2if someone balloons, they suddenly become fat: Paul ballooned after he got married.3to get bigger and rounder: The sheet flapped and ballooned in the wind.- transplantation
- transponder
- transport
- transportable
- Transport and General Workers' Union
- transportation
- transport cafe
- transporter
- Transport for London
- transport plane
- transport ship
- transpose
- transposition
- transputer
- transsexual
- transsexualism
- Trans-Siberian Railway
- transubstantiation
- Transvaal
- transverse
- transvestism
- transvestite
- Transylvania
- Transylvanian
- trap