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balloon

გამოთქმა: /bəˈluːn/

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Universal
  • 1a small coloured rubber bag which is inflated with air and then sealed at the neck, used as a child’s toy or a decoration: the room was festooned with balloons and streamers figurativehis derision pricked the fragile balloon of her vanity
  • 2 (also hot-air balloon) a large bag filled with hot air or gas to make it rise in the air, typically one carrying a basket for passengers:he set his sights on crossing the Pacific by balloon
  • 3a rounded outline in which the words or thoughts of characters in a comic strip or cartoon are written: a balloon reading ‘Ka-Pow!’
  • 4 (also balloon glass) a large rounded drinking glass, used especially for brandy: a balloon of armagnac
  • 5Scottish informal a stupid person.

ზმნა

Universal
  • 1swell out in a spherical shape:the trousers ballooned out below his waist
  • (of an amount of money spent or owed) increase rapidly:the company’s debt has ballooned in the last five years
  • (of a person) increase rapidly in weight:I ate out of boredom and I just ballooned up
  • 2British (with reference to a ball) lob or be lobbed high in the air:the ball ballooned into the air
  • 3travel by hot-air balloon:he is famous for ballooning across oceans

when the balloon goes up

British informal when the action or trouble starts: we’ve got to get our man out of there before the balloon goes up
[probably with allusion to the release of a balloon to mark the start of an event]

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