单词 | ballooning |
释义 | ballooningn. I. Lifting in or like a balloon. 1. The action or practice of ascending in balloons; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > ballooning > [noun] airgonation1784 balloonation1784 ballooning1784 balloonery1785 balloonism1785 balloon flying1802 balloon navigation1816 aeronautism1847 hot-air ballooning1891 1784 H. Smeathman Let. 16 July in T. J. Pettigrew Mem. of Lettsom (1817) II. 275 This I thought might have been done by ballooning. 1787 New Ann. Reg. 1786 Misc. Papers 188 The late rage of ballooning, which had spread itself beyond even the nations of Europe, begins now to be appeased. 1802 Times 22 Sept. 3/3 This is the age for Ballooning, and we hope the experiments daily making in this Science may end without further mischief. ?1821 in A. Mathews Mem. C. Mathews (1839) III. viii. 178 A very learned dissertation on ballooning. 1854 Harper's Mag. Mar. 522/2 Had it not been that hydrogen gas was so highly inflammable, this combination of the two systems of ballooning might have been pronounced an admirable invention. 1877 J. S. Blackie Wise Men Greece 343 Helmless balloonings in the pathless air. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 269/1 A very important development of military ballooning is the navigable balloon. 1961 Daily Tel. 1 May 13/1 President of the ballooning club in Holland. 2003 Scotl. Mag. July–Aug. 33/1 The thing to remember about ballooning is that you are always at the mercy of the winds. 2. Zoology. The dispersal of animals, esp. young or small spiders, by means of floating in the air on a thread or web of gossamer. ΚΠ 1858 Penny Cycl. 2nd Suppl. 35/2 Although spiders are not provided with wings..they have a power of ballooning with their silken threads, by means of which they can make distant journeys through the atmosphere. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 664/2 This [sc. crossing of the sea] is effected by the so-called habit of ‘ballooning’ practised by very young spiders, which float through the air..in the direction of the prevalent winds. 1965 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 34 750 Ballooning habits enable small spiders to join the aerial plankton, plentifully up to heights of 200 ft and occasionally even up to 10 000 ft. 1995 M. J. Roberts Spiders of Brit. & Northern Europe 20 This aerial dispersal (commonly called 'ballooning') is most effectively carried out when warm days follow a cold spell and air currents are rising. 3. The rising into the air of an aeroplane, esp. after bouncing on landing. Cf. balloon v. 6. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > landing > bouncing or uneven porpoising1911 ballooning1922 porpoise1931 bump1941 1922 Flight 1 June 317/2 Some serious porpoising or ‘ballooning’..may occur. 1935 P. W. F. Mills Elem. Pract. Flying vii. 103 The underlying cause of ballooning is usually too fast a gliding speed. 1983 D. Stinton Design of Aeroplane x. 370 Sloppier landing habits, failure to get the tail down on landing..cause too many ballooning, wheelbarrowing and mishandling incidents. 2006 Business & Commerc. Aviation (Nexis) 1 Oct. 76 Extending the flaps to 15 degrees for approach results in some modest ballooning. II. Inflating or expanding like a balloon. 4. a. The fact or process of becoming puffed out or swollen like a balloon; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [noun] > distension extensionc1400 distension1607 distending1633 ballooning1848 1848 C. D. Meigs Females & their Dis. xli. 602 Do not allow this ballooning of the belly to become too great. 1883 Times 1 Jan. 4/2 The less ballooning there is in the skirt so much the better for the grace of the wearer. 1902 Decatur (Illinois) Rev. 15 June 3/2 The sleeves..ending just above the wrist to allow a ballooning of the material. 1989 Times (Nexis) 28 Mar. His subsequent ballooning back up to 20 stone. 2001 New Scientist 20 Jan. 31 The thorny ballooning of a frightened pufferfish. b. Originally: an artificial inflation of the value of a commodity or of stock. Later more generally: a large or rapid increase in value, scale, etc. ΚΠ 1864 Chicago Tribune 24 June 1/1 The ballooning of gold continues, and a grand panic among prices is in progress. 1922 J. E. Meeker Work of Stock Exchange xv. 408 Short selling is impossible there [sc. in the unorganized markets] and hence there is no adequate check to the uneconomic ‘ballooning’ of prices. 1952 Land Econ. 28 67/2 This adjustment..prevents a ballooning of the rate base which places a greater burden in the aggregate on the consumers in later time periods. c. Medicine. Dilatation of the walls of a cavity of the body, as a symptom or during treatment. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [noun] > distension ablowingeOE swelling1377 inflation?1440 upblowing1527 fullness1583 flatus1702 insufflation1823 pouching1847–9 ballooning1889 1889 T. Bryant in Lancet 5 Jan. 8/1 On the diagnostic value of ‘ballooning of the rectum’ in cases of stricture of the bowel... The surgeon will often find..that he has entered a cavity, the walls of which are expanded or ‘ballooned’... The extent of ballooning will be found to vary in every case. 1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. I Ballooning, vaginal, distension of vagina as by tampons, water- or air-bags, etc. 1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxvi. 700 Acute dilatation of the stomach, characterised by extreme gaseous ballooning of the organ, with pain and collapse, may occur after abdominal operations, and have a fatal result. 1963 Sunday Tribune (Albert Lea, Minn.) 9 June 1/1 The defect was a ballooning of spinal cord tissue at the base of the spine, a meningomyelocele. 1991 Saudi Med. Jrnl. 12 331/2 True sacculation is a ballooning of some portion of the uterine wall during pregnancy resulting in a very thin sometimes translucent walled sac. 1996 S. Lavery et al. Hamlyn Encycl. Complementary Health 192/2 Very occasionally, they [sc. headaches] may have a more serious cause such as..aneurysm (ballooning of a blood vessel) in the brain. d. Physiology. Abnormal distension of a cell. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > alteration of tissue > distension of cells insufflation1823 spongiosis1907 ballooning1913 1913 E. M. Brockbank in Med. Chron. Sept. 292 When the acidity of the gastric juice reaches a certain degree..the red corpuscles are seen to distend in a most peculiar manner which for descriptive convenience I describe as ‘ballooning’. 1962 Lancet 28 Apr. 885/2 Severe fatty change of the fine droplet type, without ‘ballooning’ of the cells. 2001 Cats July 8/1 Due to some unknown mechanism related to the diabetes, the cells that form the outer sheath around the nerve fibers undergo splitting and ‘ballooning’. 5. Textiles. The extension outwards of a fibre or thread in spinning, etc. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > defect or irregularity in noba1398 twitter1639 twit1819 slub1825 snick1875 ballooning1904 1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 39/1 Ballooning (Cotton Spinning), a defect in ring spinning caused by the high velocity of the ring traveller. This has the effect of causing the spun thread to fly outwards as it winds round the bobbin. 1924 T. Lawson Woollen Yarn Production p. ix Ballooning, extension of the arc of the axis of the spinning thread. 1963 A. J. Hall Student's Handbk. Textile Sci. v. 261 (caption) Showing how the accumulation of static electricity on a thread..can cause the individual fibres of which the thread is composed to repel each other and so cause ‘ballooning’ sufficient to make the manipulation of the thread difficult. 2003 C. A. Lawrence Fund. Spun Yarn Technol. vi. 299 The ballooning of the thread line tends to keep the edge fibers of the spinning triangle from being twisted together. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). ballooningadj. 1. a. That ascends in or as in a balloon. Also figurative: wandering like a balloon. ΚΠ 1846 Foreign Q. Rev. Jan. 357 There are..two kinds of men amongst them [sc. the Germans]... There is what we may call the winged German and the walking German, or if you please, the ballooning German and the architectural German. 1863 Eclectic Mag. Apr. 424/1 Man is not only a ballooning animal, but also progressively such. 1878 T. Sinclair Mount 33 Gas-brained, ballooning, wandering men. 1958 G. Wallace Flying Witness i. 14 Highlight of a summer fête..had been an ascent by one of a famous trio of ballooning brothers—Arthur, Stanley and Percival Spencer. 1999 Western Daily Press (Bristol) (Nexis) 6 Aug. 9 Richard Branson is set to bring another 150 jobs... The ballooning millionaire is already on track to open a mobile phone business in the town. b. Zoology. Of an animal, esp. a spider: travelling by ballooning using gossamer. Cf. ballooning n. 2. ΚΠ 1874 Amer. Naturalist 8 593 December is, in Texas, the month for ballooning spiders to emigrate. 1926 A. S. Pearse Animal Ecol. vii. 275 (heading) Ballooning and gliding animals. 1971 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 32 456 Apparently the flying or ballooning spider has served western man as a reminder of the marvellous extremes in the great chain of being. 1998 Audubon Jan.–Feb. 85/1 Some investigators speculate that spiders and other ‘ballooning’ creatures may control their altitude by trimming the lengths of silk that lift them. 2. a. Soaring, swelling, or puffed out like a balloon. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [adjective] > distending > inflating inflating1541 ballooning1875 1875 R. W. Emerson Lett. & Social Aims i. 16 A grand pair of ballooning wings. 1948 D. Thomas Let. 25 May (1987) 676 Thank God I don't have to..see that red, blubbery circle mounted on ballooning body. 1970 Daily Tel. 14 Jan. 15/4 Midi-dresses with big ballooning sleeves, hip sashes, polo necks. 1982 T. Keneally Schindler's Ark xxiv. 240 The doctor was forced to work with a ballooning face, now half again its normal size, with one eye sealed up. 1991 S. Faludi Backlash ii. vii. 172 French designer Christian Dior unveiled the ‘New Look’..featuring crinolined rumps, corseted waists, and long ballooning skirts. b. Originally Finance. Increasing or rapidly escalating; characterized by such rapid increase. Cf. balloon v. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > increasing rapidly or sharply fast-growing1597 skyrocketing1833 skyrockety1856 bounding1887 ballooning1896 mushrooming1954 rocketing1959 1896 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 585/2 Farming will go on, and go on profitably; but it will never realize all the bright dreams of the ballooning years in the early eighties. 1903 Lincoln (Nebraska) Evening News 3 Sept. 5/4 Corn traders saw visions of ballooning prices. 1922 J. E. Meeker Work of Stock Exchange xv. 406 Usually at a time when prices on the organized exchanges are already declining in the anticipation of further trouble, this ballooning and unhealthy speculation in the imperfectly organized markets is at its height. 1976 Economist (Nexis) 28 Aug. 10 With enormous oil bills, ballooning trade deficits and a full share of drought,..speculation against the franc has left it as shaky as sterling. 1989 M. Dorris Broken Cord ix. 140 The more I delved into the ballooning emergency of fetal alcohol syndrome among Indian people, the more I became unmoored from the internal preoccupations of the Ivy League. 2002 BusinessWeek 8 July 29/1 A ballooning federal budget shortfall and a widening trade gap are towering..over the nascent recovery. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1784adj.1846 |
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