Balloon vs. Orb — What's the Difference?

A balloon is a flexible bag that can be inflated with a gas, such as helium, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, oxygen, and air. For special tasks, balloons can be filled with smoke, liquid water, granular media (e.g.

A sphere or spherical object.

A small coloured rubber bag which is inflated with air and then sealed at the neck, used as a child's toy or a decoration

A celestial body, such as the sun or moon.

A large bag filled with hot air or gas to make it rise in the air, typically one carrying a basket for passengers

(Archaic) The earth.

A rounded outline in which the words or thoughts of characters in a comic strip or cartoon are written

One of a series of concentric transparent spheres thought by ancient and medieval astronomers to rotate about the earth and carry the celestial bodies.

A large rounded drinking glass, used especially for brandy

A globe surmounted by a cross, used as a symbol of monarchial power and justice.

A stupid person.

An eye or eyeball.

Swell out in a spherical shape

(Archaic) Something of circular form; a circle or orbit.

(with reference to a ball) lob or be lobbed high in the air

To shape into a circle or sphere.

Travel by hot-air balloon

(Archaic) To encircle; enclose.

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.

To move in an orbit.

Such a bag with sufficient capacity to lift and transport a suspended gondola or other load.

A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star

Such a bag shaped like a figure or object when inflated; an inflatable.

One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions

A usually round or oblong inflatable rubber bag used as a toy or decoration.

(architectural element) A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere

(Medicine) An inflatable device that is inserted into a body cavity or structure and distended with air or gas for therapeutic purposes, such as angioplasty.

An orbit of an heavenly body

See speech bubble.

(rare) The time period of an orbit

See thought bubble.

(poetic) The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity

A balloon payment.

(poetic) Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel

To ascend or ride in a balloon.

(rare) A sphere of action.

To expand or swell out like a balloon.

A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal or imperial power

To increase or rise quickly

A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics))

To cause to expand by or as if by inflating

(military) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.

Suggestive of a balloon, as in shape

(architecture) A blank window or panel.

An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.

To form into an orb or circle.

Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.

To become round like an orb.

Such an object designed to transport people or equipment through the air.

To encircle; to surround; to enclose.

(medicine) A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.

A blank window or panel.

A speech bubble.

A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.

A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.

One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be inclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions.

(architecture) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.

A circle; esp., a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit.

(chemistry) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.

A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.

(pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell.

The eye, as luminous and spherical.

(obsolete) A game played with a large inflated ball.

A revolving circular body; a wheel.

(engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.

A sphere of action or influence.

(slang) A woman's breast.

Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See 1st Mound.

(slang) A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.

A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defense, esp. infantry to repel cavalry.

(finance) balloon payment

To form into an orb or circle.

(intransitive) To increase or expand rapidly.

To encircle; to surround; to inclose.

(intransitive) To go up or voyage in a balloon.

To become round like an orb.

(transitive) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.

The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye

(transitive) To inflate like a balloon.

An object with a spherical shape;

To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.

(aviation) Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down.

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.

A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.

A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.

A bomb or shell.

A game played with a large inflated ball.

The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.

To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.

To go up or voyage in a balloon.

To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.

Small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck

Large tough non-rigid bag filled with gas or heated air

Ride in a hot-air balloon;

Become inflated;