Balloon

English Meaning

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 aërial navigation.

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.
4. A usually round or oblong inflatable rubber bag used as a toy.
5. Medicine A sac that is inserted into a body cavity or tube and distended with air or gas for therapeutic purposes, such as angioplasty.
6. A rounded or irregularly shaped outline containing the words that a character in a cartoon is represented to be saying.
7. To ascend or ride in a balloon.
8. To expand or swell out like a balloon. See Synonyms at bulge.
9. To increase or rise quickly.
10. To cause to expand by or as if by inflating.
11. Suggestive of a balloon, as in shape: balloon curtains.