balloon
US: /bəˈɫun/
UK: /bəlˈuːn/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
balloon /bə'lu:n/- danh từ
- khí cầu, quả bóng
- captive (barrage) balloon: khí cầu có dây buộc xuống đất
- observation balloon: khí cầu quan trắc
- pilot balloon: khí cầu xem chiều gió
- meteorological balloon: bóng khí tượng
- (hoá học) bình cầu
- (kiến trúc) quả cầu (trên đầu cột) ô ghi lời (ở một bức tranh khôi hài)
- khí cầu, quả bóng
- nội động từ
- lên bằng khí cầu
- phồng ra, phình ra, căng lên (như quả bóng)
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) tăng giá, lên giá
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb+ noun
1 a small bag made of very thin rubber that becomes larger and rounder when you fill it with air or gas. Balloons are brightly coloured and used as decorations or toys: to blow up / burst / pop a balloon + My balloon has burst! + A thousand balloons were released to mark the event.
2 (also hot-air balloon) a large balloon made of strong fabric that is filled with hot air or gas to make it rise in the air, usually carrying a basket for passengers
Idioms: when the balloon goes up (BrE, informal) when the trouble that you are expecting begins: We have to get out of here before the balloon goes up!
more at LEAD
+ verb [V]
1 ~ (out / up) to suddenly swell out or get bigger: Her skirt ballooned out in the wind. + Unemployment ballooned to fourteen per cent.
2 (usually go ballooning) to travel in a HOT-AIR BALLOON as a sport
Collocation
1 toy
ADJ.
helium
helium balloons for the children's party
VERB + BALLOON
blow up, inflate | burst, pop
BALLOON + VERB
burst, pop
2 in the sky
ADJ.
barrage, hot-air
VERB + BALLOON
go up in
We went up in a balloon.
BALLOON + NOUN
flight | race
PREP.
by ~
She crossed the Atlantic by hot-air balloon.
Concise dictionary
balloons|ballooned|ballooningbə'luːnnoun
+small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck
+large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air
verb
+ride in a hot-air balloon
+become inflated
