Word Finder - balloon

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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 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 type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.

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

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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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A game played with a large inflated ball.

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

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A woman's breast.

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

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To increase or expand rapidly.

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His stomach ballooned from eating such a large meal.

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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.

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To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.

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An unusually large payment due at the end of the term of a loan agreement.

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• lump sum

Visit the Grand Canyon, travel to Scotland, hot air balloon ride.

Also I began to make balloon ascensions.

The balloon is inefficient because of its levity; the flying creature is efficient because of its weight.

These fine jet droppers with a mixture of alcohol and water have proved very effective for balloon observations.

The balloon in a calm can only rise and fall in a vertical line.

The balloon is controlled by the wind; the flying creature controls the wind.

Some of the earliest balloon observations made the gradient increase with the height, but such a result is now regarded as abnormal.

So also a balloon begins to rise when the weight of air displaced is greater than the weight of the balloon, and it is in equilibrium when the weights are equal.

In addition to these 6 divisions, there are "army troops" at the disposal of the commander-in-chief, consisting of two mixed "mounted brigades" (cavalry, mounted infantry, and horse artillery) serving as the "protective cavalry," and of various technical troops, such as balloon companies and bridging train.

His head swelled up like a balloon and he suffered multiple organ failure ' .

But if we could look down on the whole from a balloon, we should find that India (apart from Burma, for which see the separate article) consists of three separate and well-defined tracts.

But this elevation was not considered sufficient by Gay-Lussac, who therefore made a second ascent by himself on the 16th of September, when the balloon rose 7016 metres (about 23,000 ft.) above sea-level.

A balloon differs from a sailing ship in being immersed in only one ocean, viz.

It resembles the ship in floating upon the air, as the ship a floats upon the water; in other words, the balloon is lighter than the air, as the ship is lighter than the water.

Its horizontal movements, which ought to be the more important, are accidental movements due to air currents, and cannot be controlled; the balloon, in short, cannot be guided.

One might as well attempt to steer a boat carried along by currents of water in the absence of oars, sails and wind, as to steer a balloon carried along by currents of air.

The balloon has no hold upon the air, and this consequently cannot be employed as a fulcrum for regulating its course.

The balloon, because of its vast size and from its being lighter than the air, is completely at the mercy of the wind.

The balloon cannot be transferred with any degree of certainty from one point of the earth's surface to another, and hence the chief danger in its employment.

Balloon loans are a type of fixed rate mortgage.

This advice was rejected from dread of another revolution in Paris, and a delegation to organize resistance in the provinces was despatched to Tours, but when this was seen to be inefficient Gambetta himself (7th October) quitted Paris in a balloon, and upon arriving at Tours took the supreme direction of affairs as minister of the interior and of war.

The balloon is a mere lifting machine and is in no sense to be regarded as a flying machine.

The balloon floats because it is lighter than the air; the flying creature floats because it extracts from the air, by the vigorous downward action of its wings, a certain amount of upward recoil.

The balloon is passive; the flying creature is active.

Extensive inert surfaces indeed are contra-indicated in a flying machine, as they approximate it to the balloon, which, as has been shown, cannot maintain its position in the air if there are air currents.

These bands, which may serve to strengthen the central cylinder, have been compared with the netting surrounding the delicate wall of an inflated balloon.

Accelerated atherosclerosis may occur following balloon angioplasty, placement of an arterial stent, and following transplantation.

A balloon meant to her some other arrival from the surface of the earth, and she hoped it would be some one able to assist her and Zeb out of their difficulties.

One day my balloon ran away with me and brought me across the deserts to this beautiful country.

You can protect the person sitting under the balloon a little with a plastic bag poncho.

Streamers secured to the ceiling and draped down to the floor or a series of balloon arches work well to create the tunnel feeling.

Any outdoor party game can be appropriate, including relay races, a balloon toss, obstacle courses, and more.

The story of the boy in the balloon grabbed international headlines until it was discovered that Falcon wasn't really in the balloon but instead had been hiding in the attic.

A chair sat in the middle of the living room with a 'Happy Birthday' balloon tied to it.

There is a difficulty in reconciling observed values of the ionization with the results obtained from balloon ascents as to the variation of the potential with altitude.

He was in Paris during part of the siege, but escaped in a balloon, and joined Gambetta.

Three years later, at an unusually early age, he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences, and in 1804 he accompanied Gay Lussac on the first balloon ascent undertaken for scientific purposes.

This fashion continued until, in the 17th century, the sleeves became much fuller; but it was not till the, 8th century that they developed into the familiar exaggerated balloon shape, confined at the wrists by a ribbon, beyond which a ruffle projected.

Pilatre de Rozier, whom he accompanied in a balloon ascent in 1784.

During the siege of Paris he left the city in a balloon and joined Gambetta, for whom he organized a system of spies through which General Trochu was kept informed of the strength and disposition of the Prussians around Paris.

Other branches represented in Great Britain by the Royal Engineers are known in Germany by the title communication troops, and comprise railway, telegraph and airship and balloon battalions.

At Annonay there is an obelisk in honour of the brothers Montgolfier, inventors of the balloon, who were natives of the place.

The physical properties of water and air explain in a great measure how the sailing ship differs from the balloon, and how the latter differs from the flying creature and flying machine constructed on the natural type.

This in the case of the balloon, immersed in one fluid, is impossible.

It forms an integral part, so to speak, of the wind for the time being, and the direction of the wind in every instance determines the horizontal motion of the balloon.

If it were otherwise - if it were rescued from the law of gravitation on the one hand, and bereft of independent movement on the other, it would float about uncontrolled and uncontrollable like an ordinary balloon.

Once it was seriously questioned, our success rate would plummet like a pricked balloon.

The anxiously awaited Friday return occurred not with a bang but the hiss of a deflated balloon as Howie snuck out early and remained invisible the entire weekend.

To control your balloon, use the correct preposition from the top to go forward and the correct preposition from the bottom to stop.

Bandolier 92 reported a meta-analysis of trials looking at a comparison of stents versus balloon angioplasty indicating stents to be better.