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balloon

Heißluftballon

Definitionen

Englisch > Deutsch
balloon
1. Substantiv:
2. [1] (Luft)ballon
3. [2] Sprechblase
[1] “Two more hours passed and the balloon was scarcely four hundred feet above the water.”
„Zwei weitere Stunden vergingen und der Ballon war kaum vierhundert Fuß über Wasser.“
Englisch > Englisch
balloon
1. subst. An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
2. subst. Such an object as a child’s toy.
3. subst. Such an object designed to transport people through the air.
4. subst. (medicine) A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
5. subst. A speech bubble.
6. subst. A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
7. subst. (architecture) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
the balloon of St. Paul's Cathedral in London
8. subst. (chemistry) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
9. subst. (pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell.
10. subst. (obsolete) A game played with a large inflated ball.
11. subst. (engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
12. subst. (slang) A woman’s breast.
13. v. (intransitive) To increase or expand rapidly.
His stomach ballooned from eating such a large meal.
Prices will balloon if we don't act quickly.
14. v. (intransitive) To go up or voyage in a balloon.
15. v. To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
16. v. To inflate like a balloon.
17. v. (transitive, sports) To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
Deutsch > Englisch
Heißluftballon
1. subst. hot air balloon