amerikai:
brit:
1. An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
2. Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.
3. Such an object designed to transport people through the air.
4. A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
5. A speech bubble.
6. A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
7. A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
the balloon of St. Paul's Cathedral in London
8. A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
9. A bomb or shell.
10. A game played with a large inflated ball.
11. (engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
12. A woman's breast.
13. A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.
1. To increase or expand rapidly.
His stomach ballooned from eating such a large meal.
2. To go up or voyage in a balloon.
3. To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
4. To inflate like a balloon.
5. To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
1. An unusually large payment due at the end of the term of a loan agreement.
Szinonimák: lump sum