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balloon: large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air; small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck; become inflated; "The sails ballooned"; ride in a hot-air balloon; "He tried to balloon around the earth but storms forced him to land in China"

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blimp collapse: a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon

barometer collapse: an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure

airship collapse: a steerable self-propelled airship

weather vane collapse

trial balloon collapse: a balloon sent up to test air currents; a test of public opinion

weathercock collapse: weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster

sounder collapse: a device for making soundings

gasbag collapse: a boring person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics

straw vote collapse: an unofficial vote taken to determine opinion on some issue

feeler collapse

random sample collapse: a sample grabbed at random; a sample in which every element in the population has an equal chance of being selected

sailplane collapse: fly a plane without an engine

pouch collapse: a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things; (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican); an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air"; send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels; put into a small bag

ellipsoid collapse: a surface whose plane sections are all ellipses or circles; "the Earth is an ellipsoid"; in the form of an ellipse

hydroplane collapse: glide on the water in a hydroplane

seaplane collapse: an airplane that can land on or take off from water; "the designer of marine aircraft demonstrated his newest hydroplane"

sample collapse: a small part of something intended as representative of the whole; all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class; take a sample of; "Try these new crackers"; "Sample the regional dishes"

fob collapse: short chain or ribbon attaching a pocket watch to a man's vest; an adornment that hangs from a watch chain; a vest pocket to hold a pocket watch

hygrometer collapse: measuring instrument for measuring the relative humidity of the atmosphere

volplane collapse

interrogative collapse: relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation; relating to verbs in the so-called interrogative mood; "not all questions have an interrogative construction"

protrude collapse

bolus collapse: a large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine; a small round soft mass (as of chewed food)

boll collapse: German novelist and writer of short stories (1917-1985); the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant

bladder collapse: a bag that fills with air; a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas)

cross question collapse

distend collapse: swell from or as if from internal pressure; "The distended bellies of the starving cows"; cause to expand as it by internal pressure; "The gas distended the animal's body"

accrue collapse: grow by addition; "The interest accrues"; come into the possession of; "The house accrued to the oldest son"

bone of contention collapse: the subject of a dispute; "the real bone of contention, as you know, is money"

airlift collapse: transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable); fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means; "Food is airlifted into Bosnia"

interrogation collapse: formal systematic questioning; a transmission that will trigger an answering transmission from a transponder

catechism collapse: an elementary book summarizing the principles of a Christian religion; written as questions and answers; a series of question put to an individual (such as a political candidate) to elicit their views

round out collapse: make bigger or better or more complete; fill out; "These studies round out the results of many years of research"

bead collapse: a small ball with a hole through the middle; string together like beads; decorate by sewing beads onto; "bead the wedding gown"; form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example

inflate collapse: fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons"; exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated"; increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value; "inflate the currency"; cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit; "The war inflated the economy"

proliferate collapse: cause to grow or increase rapidly; "We must not proliferate nuclear arms"; grow rapidly; "Pizza parlors proliferate in this area"

puff up collapse: make larger or distend; "The estimates were puffed up"

pout collapse: a disdainful grimace; make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip; "mop and mow"; "The girl pouted"

question mark collapse: a punctuation mark (?) placed at the end of a sentence to indicate a question

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