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bal·loon       (bə-lōōn')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
    1. 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.
    2. Such a bag with sufficient capacity to lift and transport a suspended gondola or other load.
    3. Such a bag shaped like a figure or object when inflated; an inflatable.
  2. A usually round or oblong inflatable rubber bag used as a toy.
  3. Medicine A sac that is inserted into a body cavity or tube and distended with air or gas for therapeutic purposes, such as angioplasty.
  4. A rounded or irregularly shaped outline containing the words that a character in a cartoon is represented to be saying.

v.   bal·looned, bal·loon·ing, bal·loons

v.   intr.
  1. To ascend or ride in a balloon.
  2. To expand or swell out like a balloon. See Synonyms at bulge.
  3. To increase or rise quickly.

v.   tr.
To cause to expand by or as if by inflating.

adj.   Suggestive of a balloon, as in shape: balloon curtains.


[French ballon, from Italian dialectal ballone, augmentative of balla, ball, of Germanic origin; see bhel-2 in Indo-European roots.]

bal·loon'ist n.
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ballooning

noun
flying in a balloon 

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Ballooning

Bal*loon"ing\, n. 1. The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.

2. (Stock Exchange) The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales. [U.S.]

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