Balloon

Noun

 * 1) An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
 * 2) Such an object as a child’s toy.
 * 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.

Verb

 * 1)  To increase or expand rapidly.

Adjectives for Balloon
gigantic; invisible;floating; lifeless; air-filled; gaseous.

Verbs for Balloon
anchor—; attach to—; ballast—; blow—; burst—; check—; command—; dispatch—; cut away—; deflate—; elevate—; experiment with —s; fire—; guide—; improve—;inflate—; liberate—; lift—; lighten—; man —; navigate—; power—; propel—; steady—; suspend—; swell—; —ascends; —circles; —collapses; —descends; —drifts; — expands; —explodes; —floats; —journeys;—kites; —rises; —sallies; —soars; —spins; —tosses ; —wallows.

Thesaurus
accrue, accumulate, advance, aeroplane, aerostat, air bubble, airlift, airplane, airship, appreciate, bag, ball, ballonet, be airborne, bead, belly, belly out, bilge, billow, bladder, bleb, blimp, blister, bloat, blob, blood blister, boll, bolus, boom, bouge, breed, broaden, bubble, bug, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, bulge, bulk, bulla, captive balloon, conglobulate, crescendo, cruise, develop, dilate, dirigible, dirigible balloon, distend, drift, ellipsoid, enlarge, expand, extend, ferry, fever blister, fill out, flit, fly, fob, gain, gain strength, gasbag, geoid, get ahead, glide, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, go up, gob, gobbet, goggle, greaten, grow, hop, hover, hydroplane, increase, intensify, jet, knob, knot, lighter-than-air craft, mount, multiply, mushroom, navigate, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, pellet, pilot balloon, pocket, poke, pooch, pop, pouch, pout, prolate spheroid, proliferate, puff up, rigid airship, rise, rondure, round out, run up, sac, sack, sail, sailplane, sausage, seaplane, semirigid airship, ship, shoot up, snowball, soap bubble, soar, sphere, spherify, spheroid, spherule, spread, strengthen, stretch, swell, swell out, take the air, take wing, tumefy, vesicle, volplane, wax, weather balloon, widen, wing, zeppelin

Etymology
1570, "a game played with a large, inflated leather ball" (possibly via ballon:) from  pallone: "large ball" from palla: "ball", of  origin, from  palla: "ball" from  from  from. Akin to ballo:, bal: "ball" ( Ballen: "bale"; Ball: "ball"). More at.

Synonyms

 * toy balloon
 * hot-air balloon, montgolfier
 * speech bubble, fumetto
 * speech bubble, fumetto
 * speech bubble, fumetto

Derived terms

 * barrage balloon
 * balloon animal
 * balloon-back
 * balloon barrage
 * balloon clock
 * balloon club
 * balloon flower


 * ballooning
 * balloonist
 * balloon sail
 * balloon tyre
 * balloon vine
 * hot-air balloon


 * pilot balloon
 * trial balloon
 * weather balloon
 * when the balloon goes up