| inglés > español | |
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| balloon | |
| 1. globo | |
| inglés > inglés | |
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| balloon | |
| 1. s. An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible. |  |
| 2. s. Such an object as a child’s toy. | |
| 3. s. Such an object designed to transport people through the air. | |
| 4. s. (medicine) A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty. | |
| 5. s. A speech bubble. | |
| 6. s. A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy. | |
| 7. s. (architecture) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc. | |
| the balloon of St. Paul's Cathedral in London | |
| 8. s. (chemistry) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form. | |
| 9. s. (pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell. | |
| 10. s. (obsolete) A game played with a large inflated ball. | |
| 11. s. (engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure. | |
| 12. s. (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. | |
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| globo | |
| 1. n-m. balloon | |
| 2. n-m. globe | |
| 3. n-m. (tennis) lob | |
