| Englisch > Deutsch | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| Heißluftballon | |
| 1. subst. hot air balloon | |
