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balloon
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES barrage balloon blow up...balloon ▪ Can you blow up this balloon? hot-air balloon trial balloon ▪ Senator Lott is floating trial balloons to test public opinion on the bill. went down like a lead balloon (=was not popular or successful) ▪ The idea went down like a lead balloon. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS NOUN air ▪ The steel rope had to be used because a normal tight rope wouldn't keep taut between two unpredictable hot air balloons. ▪ Read in studio A rather unusual hot air balloon has completed its maiden voyage. ▪ Vologsky might as well try to take off and escape in a hot air balloon. ▪ Is it not yet another of the Secretary of State's hot air balloons? ▪ Read in studio Five hundred homes had their power supplies cut when a hot air balloon collided with high voltage cables. ▪ Read in studio A world record has been set for tight rope walking between two hot air balloons. barrage ▪ The winch man was running out the cable, allowing the barrage balloon to rise. ▪ Through his window, Carrington could see a silver barrage balloon, rising slowly on its cable into the clear blue sky. ▪ They flew barrage balloons, commissioned perspectives and held a public inquiry. ▪ Cider and Guinness had given him a barrage balloon for a stomach. ▪ Do you remember barrage balloons Bobbing around like airborne swine? ▪ It was now quite clear that barrage balloons were much more a hindrance than a help to London. helium ▪ Visual effects feature largely in this community arts venture, and have included helium balloons and fireworks. ▪ People left the auditorium that morning trailing their doubts behind them like children dragging exhausted helium balloons. ▪ I wish people would stop buying helium balloons and letting them go. ▪ Breastfeeding does perky things to some women's statistics, but it left mine looking like two well-past-their-sell-by-date helium balloons. lead ▪ Normally following that kind of response the ramp idea would go down like a lead balloon. ▪ Anyway these questions go down like a lead balloon. VERB blow ▪ You look like you have blown up like a balloon and you feel that you are a complete dieting failure. ▪ Tell the students to blow up the balloon and then tape the straw to the balloon. ▪ Work quickly or keep the cutting material in a plastic bag blown up like a balloon and sealed. ▪ But there are two ways of blowing up a balloon. ▪ There was a game where you blew up balloons and sat on them. ▪ The first players then have to blow the balloons back for the second person to take over. burst ▪ The soldier, becoming bored with the game, laconically reached out his cigarette end and burst the balloon in my face. ▪ As soon as they succeed the next person in the team bursts her balloon and the game continues until everyone has finished. ▪ Dad was better than anyone; he burst six balloons, one after the other. fill ▪ It is an elevating experience filling gas balloons for the Christmas party. ▪ It's a helium filled balloon with a kite attached. ▪ Water babies Fill balloons with warm water and knot the tops securely. inflate ▪ We all started to inflate our balloons and eventually one burst. ▪ The final piece that we have to add is the generation of pressure without having to inflate a balloon to start with. release ▪ The former Teesside Polytechnic celebrated its name change by releasing hundreds of balloons into the sky above Middlesbrough. PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES go down like a lead balloon EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ hot air balloon rides EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A good cabinet officer will take a policy proposal, put a trial balloon out. ▪ For this design knit the single teddy starting on the seventh stitch to avoid knitting part of the balloon. ▪ I sail up the hill and along Hyde Hill Lane as if I were a balloon. ▪ It will be years before I will understand the significance of these little balloons. ▪ No cardiologist would insert a balloon. ▪ Tell the students to blow up the balloon and then tape the straw to the balloon. ▪ The balloons drop at midnight, and free champagne and party favors are included with your ticket. ▪ They're holding a huge festival in September with 70 balloons. II. verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ He ballooned to 300 pounds since college. ▪ The program's cost has ballooned from $270 million to more than $1 billion. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As firms' share of total deposits has ballooned, so Sberbank's relative power has shrivelled. ▪ Even as the black population ballooned, whites kept control of the City Council. ▪ He looked at Angelina and overate, the right side of his. face ballooned like a heavyweight squirrel. ▪ In recent years, the local police force has ballooned from two officers to 11. ▪ In this view, hot, insulated mantle wells up beneath a supercontinent, causing it to balloon upward. ▪ Worse, hard drives in recent years have ballooned in size.
balloon
I. bal‧loon1 /bəˈluːn/ noun [COUNTABLE] [date : 1500-1600; Language : French; Origin : ballon 'large football, balloon', from Italian ballone 'large football', from balla 'ball'] 1. an object made of brightly coloured thin rubber, that is filled with air and used as a toy or decoration for parties: ▪ Can you help me blow up these balloons? ▪ He burst the balloon in my face.
2. (also hot air balloon) a large bag of strong light cloth filled with gas or heated air so that it can float in the air. It has a basket hanging below it for people to stand in: ▪ a balloon flight over the Yorkshire Moors
3. the circle drawn around the words spoken by the characters in a cartoon SYN bubble
4. a balloon payment American English money borrowed that must be paid back in one large sum after several smaller payments have been made: ▪ a $10,000 balloon payment due in two years
5. the balloon goes up British English informal used to refer to the moment when a situation starts to become really bad: ▪ We’ll have to get out of there before the balloon goes up. ⇨ go down like a lead balloon at lead3(3)
II. balloon2 (also balloon out) verb [INTRANSITIVE] 1. to suddenly become larger in amount SYN explode: ▪ The company’s debt has ballooned in the past year.
2. if someone balloons, they suddenly become fat: ▪ Paul ballooned after he got married.
3. to get bigger and rounder: ▪ The sheet flapped and ballooned in the wind.
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