Related Searches
Nearby Words
Cheap Balloons www.theselection.com Looking For Cheap Balloons? Everything You Need. Search Now!
Private Balloon Tours www.temeculaballoontours.com Romantic flights for two. Temecula or Del Mar.
Dictionary.com Free Toolbar Dictionary.com Define Ballooned Instantly. Faster Page Loads With Fewer Ads.
Ads
noun
1.
a bag made of thin rubber or other light material, usually brightly colored, inflated with air or with some lighter-than-air gas and used as a children's plaything or as a decoration.
2.
a bag made of a light material, as silk or plastic, filled with heated air or a gas lighter than air, designed to rise and float in the atmosphere and often having a car or gondola attached below for carrying passengers or scientific instruments.
3.
(in drawings, cartoons, etc.) a balloon-shaped outline enclosing words represented as issuing from the mouth of the speaker.
4.
an ornamental ball at the top of a pillar, pier, or the like.
5.
EXPANDa large, globular wineglass.
6.
COLLAPSEChemistry Now Rare. a round-bottomed flask.
verb (used without object)
7.
to go up or ride in a balloon.
8.
to swell or puff out like a balloon.
9.
to multiply or increase at a rapid rate: Membership has ballooned beyond all expectations.
:10
:09
:08
:07
:06
:05
:04
:03
:02
:01
Ballooned
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
verb (used with object)
10.
to fill with air; inflate or distend (something) like a balloon.
adjective
11.
puffed out like a balloon: balloon sleeves.
12.
Finance. (of a loan, mortgage, or the like) having a payment at the end of the term that is much bigger than previous ones.
Origin:
1570–80; < Upper Italian ballone, equivalent to ball(a) (< Langobardic; see ball1) + -one augmentative suffix; or < Middle French ballon < Upper Italian
1570–80; < Upper Italian ballone, equivalent to ball(a) (< Langobardic; see ball1) + -one augmentative suffix; or < Middle French ballon < Upper Italian
Related forms
bal·loon·like, adjective
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source
|
Link To ballooned
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
balloon
1570s, "a game played with a large inflated leather ball," from It. pallone "large ball," from palla "ball," from Langobardic palla (from P.Gmc. *ball-, from PIE *bhel- (2) "to blow, swell;" see bole) + -one, suffix indicating great size. Perhaps borrowed in part from Fr. ballon
EXPAND(16c.), altered (after balle) from It. pallone. It also meant the ball itself (1590s), which was batted back and forth by means of large wooden paddles strapped to the forearms. In 17c., it also meant "a type of fireworks housed in a pasteboard ball" (1630s) and "round ball used as an architectural ornament" (1650s). Acquired modern meaning after Montgolfier brothers' flights, 1783. As a child's toy, it is attested from 1848; as "outline containing words in a comic engraving" it dates from 1844. The verb meaning "to swell, puff up" is attested from 1841. Trial balloon is congnate of French ballon d'essai.
COLLAPSE
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Cite This Source
Cite This Source
American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
balloon bal·loon (bə-l&oomacr;n')
n.
An inflatable spherical device that is inserted into a body cavity or structure and distended with air or gas for therapeutic purposes.
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Cite This Source
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.