| 单词 | balloon |
| 释义 | balloon —balloonlike, adj. /beuh loohn"/, n. 1. a bag made of thin rubber or other light material, usually brightly colored, inflated with air or with some lighter-than-air gas and used as a children's plaything or as a decoration. 2. a bag made of a light material, as silk or plastic, filled with heated air or a gas lighter than air, designed to rise and float in the atmosphere and often having a car or gondola attached below for carrying passengers or scientific instruments. 3. (in drawings, cartoons, etc.) a balloon-shaped outline enclosing words represented as issuing from the mouth of the speaker. 4. an ornamental ball at the top of a pillar, pier, or the like. 5. a large, globular wineglass. 6. Chem. Now Rare. a round-bottomed flask. v.i. 7. to go up or ride in a balloon. 8. to swell or puff out like a balloon. 9. to multiply or increase at a rapid rate: Membership has ballooned beyond all expectations. v.t. 10. to fill with air; inflate or distend (something) like a balloon. adj. 11. puffed out like a balloon: balloon sleeves. 12. Finance. (of a loan, mortgage, or the like) having a payment at the end of the term that is much bigger than previous ones. [1570-80; < Upper It ballone, equiv. to ball(a) ( < Langobardic; see BALL1) + -one aug. suffix; or < MF ballon < Upper It] |
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