balloon

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
2. isim Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.
3. isim Such an object designed to transport people or equipment through the air.
4. isim A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
5. isim A speech bubble.
6. isim A wide rounded glass with a stem and foot, used for wine, brandy, etc.
7. isim A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.

   “the balloon of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London”

8. isim A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
9. isim A bomb or shell.
10. isim A game played with a large inflated ball.
11. isim The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
12. isim A woman's breast.
13. isim A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.

    “And all I had to do in return was take a drive up to Ricardo's place on the way home and then a pretty edgy one back to Rondebosch with a balloon of coke sandwiched between two pairs of underpants.”

14. isim Synonym of balloon payment.

    “The purpose of the balloon is to reduce the periodic payment required during the life of the financing period.”

15. fiil To increase or expand rapidly.

    “His stomach ballooned from eating such a large meal.”

16. fiil To go up or voyage in a balloon.
17. fiil To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
18. fiil To inflate like a balloon.

    “A puff of wind from the open door caught and ballooned the scanties; off they sailed, out the window billowing into freedom.”

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

    “After four minutes, leading goalscorer Haworth slid in but ballooned the ball over from six yards, and Hume then outran the defence to get to the by-line, but he could only hit his cross straight out.”

20. fiil Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down.

    “The plane ballooned into the air about 20 feet, banging down again for another good-sized hop.”