balloon

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for balloon

balloon 🔊 /bʌluˈn/

balloon : බැලූනය

balloon : බැලුම

balloon : ව්‍යෝමයානාව

balloon : බැලුනය

balloon definition

Noun.

  1. A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation.
  2. A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.
  3. A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
  4. A bomb or shell.
  5. A game played with a large inflated ball.
  6. The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.

Transitive verb. To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.

Intransitive verb.

  1. To go up or voyage in a balloon.
  2. To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.