English Dictionary

balloon

/bəˈluːn/

verb

(intransitive) To increase or expand rapidly. / (intransitive) To go up or voyage in a balloon. / (transitive) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon. / (transitive) To inflate like a balloon.

The number of attendees at the conference ballooned overnight.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To increase or expand rapidly.

His stomach ballooned from eating such a large meal.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To go up or voyage in a balloon.

意味（3）

(transitive) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.

意味（4）

(transitive) To inflate like a balloon.

A puff of wind from the open door caught and ballooned the scanties; off they sailed, out the window billowing into freedom.

意味（5）

(transitive, sports) To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.

After four minutes, leading goalscorer Haworth slid in but ballooned the ball over from six yards, and Hume then outran the defence to get to the by-line, but he could only hit his cross straight out.

意味（6）

(aviation) Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down.

The plane ballooned into the air about 20 feet, banging down again for another good-sized hop.