Balloon
[bə'luːn] or [bə'lun]
Definition
(noun.) large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air.
(noun.) small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck.
(verb.) become inflated; 'The sails ballooned'.
(verb.) ride in a hot-air balloon; 'He tried to balloon around the earth but storms forced him to land in China'.
Inputed by Harlow--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.
(n.) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
(n.) A bomb or shell.
(n.) A game played with a large inflated ball.
(n.) The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
(v. t.) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
(v. i.) To go up or voyage in a balloon.
(v. i.) To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
Editor: Maris
Definition
n. an inflated air-tight envelope of paper or silk constructed to float in the air and carry a considerable weight when filled with heated air or light gas: anything inflated empty: (obs.) a game played with a large inflated ball.—v.i. to ascend in a balloon: to puff out like a balloon.—n. Balloon′ist an aeronaut.
Typed by Keller
Unserious Contents or Definition
Blighted hopes and adversity come with this dream. Business of every character will sustain an apparent falling off. To ascend in a balloon, denotes an unfortunate journey.
Typed by Lloyd
Examples
- The German government paid $1,250,000 into the Zeppelin fund for experiments, and contributed a large sum in addition to the maintenance of a balloon corps. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I had no more presaged such feats than I had looked forward to an ascent in a balloon, or a voyage to Cape Horn. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- His robe filled with air and stood out all around him like a balloon. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A cable holds the balloon captive. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It lay in the level plain right under our feet--all spread abroad like a picture--and we looked down upon it as we might have looked from a balloon. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The wind tended to carry the aeroplane to the east, but Orville Wright was able to hold it on a fairly even course, and to reach the balloon at Shuter’s Hill that marked the turning point. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It's like puttin' gas in a balloon. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- At other times, free balloons are liberated, carrying sets of automatic registering instruments. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- An air space of two feet is left between the cover and the balloons. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Germany meantime was intensely interested in Count Zeppelin’s dirigible balloons, which, although as long as a battle-ship, had flown with great success. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Two captive balloons had been floated to show the course and also to give an indication of the proper altitude to maintain. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Thinking the English slow to take up the interest in balloons, he wrote that we should not suffer pride to prevent our p rogress in science. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Wireless messages have been successfully sent from aeroplanes, balloons and submarine vessels, and the naval vessels of all nations are kept in easy communication by this method. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In communicating between points on land, poles of great height can be used, or captive balloons. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Perhaps, translated to another sphere, Thy spirit--like thy light, refined and clear-- Ballooned with purest hydrogen, shall rise, And add a PATENT PLANET to the skies. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
Edited by Fred