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Balloony vs. Balloon — What's the Difference?

Balloony vs. Balloon — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Balloony and Balloon

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Balloony

Resembling or reminiscent of a balloon or balloons.

Balloon

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.

Balloony

Tending to balloon

Balloon

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
The room was festooned with balloons and streamers
His derision pricked the fragile balloon of her vanity

Balloon

A large bag filled with hot air or gas to make it rise in the air, typically one carrying a basket for passengers
He set his sights on crossing the Pacific by balloon
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Balloon

A rounded outline in which the words or thoughts of characters in a comic strip or cartoon are written
A balloon reading ‘Ka-Pow!’

Balloon

A large rounded drinking glass, used especially for brandy
A balloon of armagnac

Balloon

A stupid person.

Balloon

Swell out in a spherical shape
The trousers ballooned out below his waist

Balloon

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

Balloon

Travel by hot-air balloon
He is famous for ballooning across oceans

Balloon

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.

Balloon

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

Balloon

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

Balloon

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

Balloon

(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.

Balloon

See speech bubble.

Balloon

See thought bubble.

Balloon

A balloon payment.

Balloon

To ascend or ride in a balloon.

Balloon

To expand or swell out like a balloon.

Balloon

To increase or rise quickly
Expenses ballooning out of control.

Balloon

To cause to expand by or as if by inflating
Unforeseen expenditures that ballooned the deficit.

Balloon

Suggestive of a balloon, as in shape
Balloon curtains.

Balloon

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

Balloon

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

Balloon

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

Balloon

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

Balloon

A speech bubble.

Balloon

A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.

Balloon

(architecture) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
The balloon of St. Paul's Cathedral in London

Balloon

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

Balloon

(pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell.

Balloon

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

Balloon

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

Balloon

(slang) A woman's breast.

Balloon

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

Balloon

(finance) balloon payment

Balloon

(intransitive) To increase or expand rapidly.
His stomach ballooned from eating such a large meal.
Prices will balloon if we don't act quickly.

Balloon

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

Balloon

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

Balloon

(transitive) To inflate like a balloon.

Balloon

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

Balloon

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

Balloon

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.

Balloon

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

Balloon

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

Balloon

A bomb or shell.

Balloon

A game played with a large inflated ball.

Balloon

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

Balloon

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

Balloon

To go up or voyage in a balloon.

Balloon

To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.

Balloon

Small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck

Balloon

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

Balloon

Ride in a hot-air balloon;
He tried to balloon around the earth but storms forced him to land in China

Balloon

Become inflated;
The sails ballooned

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