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balloon

/buh-loon/US // bəˈlun //UK // (bəˈluːn) //

球囊,热气球,气球,水球

Related Words

blimp飞艇,飞碟,爆炸物,爆炸物的swell肿胀,胀大,膨胀,胀inflate膨胀,充气,膨大,充气机enlarge扩大,扩大范围,扩大规模,扩大化expand拓展,扩充,扩大,扩展dirigible飞艇,飞行器,飞碟,飞船bladder膀胱,膀子,膀臂,膀胱癌airship飞艇,飞船,舰艇zeppelin齐柏林,齐柏林飞船,齐柏林飞艇,齐柏林号distend胀大,涨大,胀破,膨胀bulge突起,凸起,隆起,凸出belly肚皮,腹部,肚子,肚腩dilate使膨胀,使膨胀的,扩大,使膨胀和增加blow up炸毁,炸毁了,爆炸,炸掉puff out喷出,鼓起勇气来

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 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.
    • : 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.
    • : a balloon-shaped outline enclosing words represented as issuing from the mouth of the speaker.
    • : an ornamental ball at the top of a pillar, pier, or the like.
    • : a large, globular wineglass.
    • : Chemistry Now Rare. a round-bottomed flask.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to go up or ride in a balloon.
    • : to swell or puff out like a balloon.
    • : to multiply or increase at a rapid rate: Membership has ballooned beyond all expectations.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to fill with air; inflate or distend like a balloon.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : puffed out like a balloon: balloon sleeves.
    • : Finance. having a payment at the end of the term that is much bigger than previous ones.

Phrases

  • balloon goes up, the
  • go over (like a lead balloon)
  • trial balloon

Synonyms & Antonyms

nouninflated material or vehicle
Forms: ballooned
Synonyms
blimp飞艇,飞碟,爆炸物,爆炸物的airship飞艇,飞船,舰艇bladder膀胱,膀子,膀臂,膀胱癌dirigible飞艇,飞行器,飞碟,飞船zeppelin齐柏林,齐柏林飞船,齐柏林飞艇,齐柏林号
verbbillow out; bloat
Forms: ballooned
Synonyms
enlarge扩大,扩大范围,扩大规模,扩大化expand拓展,扩充,扩大,扩展inflate膨胀,充气,膨大,充气机swell肿胀,胀大,膨胀,胀belly肚皮,腹部,肚子,肚腩bulge突起,凸起,隆起,凸出dilate使膨胀,使膨胀的,扩大,使膨胀和增加distend胀大,涨大,胀破,膨胀blow up炸毁,炸毁了,爆炸,炸掉puff out喷出,鼓起勇气来

Examples

  • Yet the costs of law enforcement are ballooning and, according to City Council members, unsustainable.

  • Zhong isn’t the only one whose fortune has ballooned from Nongfu’s trading debut.

  • Perhaps this is why search interest in SEO itself, which was largely stagnant from mid-2017 to early this year, has ballooned.

  • In a brief moment of rapid expansion, that burst of energy inflated the cosmos like a balloon.

  • Future satellites or weather balloons could provide data on whether this has happened, says Pengfei Yu.

  • He was like an un-tied balloon that had been inflated and immediately released.

  • She had grown so perfect and gentle and consoling that it was unbearable, she was a big, round smooth balloon without a face.

  • The Great Texas Balloon Race on July 29th-August 4th feature daily races with some of the best balloon pilot talent in the game.

  • Manned, unmanned, a balloon, a kite—you still have to get the information into the hands of the firefighters.

  • This was a tethered reconnaissance balloon, as first used 220 years ago in the French Revolutionary War.

  • For, at that moment Squinty stood up on his hind legs, as the boy had taught him, and walked over toward the big balloon basket.

  • Squinty cuddled down in the basket of the balloon, between two bags full of something, and shivered.

  • There were a great many of them in the balloon, and Squinty thought they must have something good in them.

  • Mandy Ann had put on her best frock, a white one, stiff with starch, and standing out like a small balloon.

  • There was nothing left before him now but San Francisco or a balloon; heaven being out of the question.

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