Thesaurus: balloon

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1. n. 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 aerial navigation.
2. n. A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.
3. n. A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
4. n. A bomb or shell.
5. n. A game played with a large inflated ball.
6. n. The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
7. v. t. To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
8. v. i. To go up or voyage in a balloon.
9. v. i. To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
10. n. large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air
11. n. small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck
12. v. ride in a hot-air balloon