Balloony vs. Balloon: What's the Difference?

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A flexible bag designed to be inflated with hot air or with a gas, such as helium, that is lighter than the surrounding air, causing it to rise and float in the atmosphere.

Such a bag with sufficient capacity to lift and transport a suspended gondola or other load.

Such a bag shaped like a figure or object when inflated; an inflatable.

A usually round or oblong inflatable rubber bag used as a toy or decoration.

(Medicine) An inflatable device that is inserted into a body cavity or structure and distended with air or gas for therapeutic purposes, such as angioplasty.

See speech bubble.

See thought bubble.

A balloon payment.

To ascend or ride in a balloon.

To expand or swell out like a balloon.

To increase or rise quickly

To cause to expand by or as if by inflating

Suggestive of a balloon, as in shape

An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.

Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.

Such an object designed to transport people or equipment through the air.

(medicine) A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.

A speech bubble.

A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.

(architecture) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.

(chemistry) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.

(pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell.

(obsolete) A game played with a large inflated ball.

(engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.

(slang) A woman's breast.

(slang) A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.

(finance) balloon payment

(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.

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

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

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 aërial navigation.

A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.

A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.

A bomb or shell.

A game played with a large inflated ball.

The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.

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

To go up or voyage in a balloon.

To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.

Small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck

Large tough non-rigid bag filled with gas or heated air

Ride in a hot-air balloon;

Become inflated;