Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The art or practice of ascending in and of managing balloons.
- n. In political and stock-exchange slang, the operation of booming a candidate, or of inflating the money-market, by means of fictitious favorable reports.
- n. In a steam-boiler, the lifting of scum on the surface of the water by the liberation of steam from it.
Wiktionary
- adj. growing rapidly as a balloon
- adj. rising high in the air
- n. the sport or hobby of flying in a balloon
- v. present participle of balloon.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them; the sport of riding in balloons.
- n. (Stock Exchange), U.S. The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales.
WordNet 3.0
- n. flying in a balloon
Examples
“Friends said that ballooning is in Abruzzo's blood.”
The Huffington Post: Richard Abruzzo And Carol Rymer Davis Missing In European Balloon Race
“High altitude ballooning is an emerging hobby, since price of GPS and communications equipment has gotten quite low.”
“If this ballooning is left untreated, it may continue to weaken, burst and bleed into the brain.”
“We fell near Neath, Glamorganshire, only one and a half miles short of the sea, completing a voyage which is a record in English ballooning -- ten hours from start to finish.”
“· Cool window title ballooning (song titles will be ballooned when your media player switches to a new song) · Optionally removes the window from the task bar”
“Clam found that he was not much attracted to the notion of ballooning with Lord Berrybender.”
“If the abnormally constricted condition of the anal orifice has been growing from bad to worse for years, the locality immediately above the anal canal will become dilated or cavernous (caused by retained feces or gases), which cavity is called ballooning of the rectum.”
“As a consequence, the feces and gas deposit and lodge at this latter location, producing in so doing the abnormal cavity called ballooning of the rectum, so often found just above the anal tube.”
“Just half a year after being named to run the world's No. 1 carmaker, Toyoda is confronting the worst crisis in its 70-year history - massive global recalls ballooning to 8.5 million vehicles in a matter of weeks and its once-sterling reputation for quality in tatters.”
“Half a year later, he's slammed as slow and indecisive as Toyota Motor Corp. grapples with the worst crisis in its 70-year history - massive global recalls ballooning to 8.5 million vehicles in a matter of weeks and its once-sterling reputation for quality in tatters.”
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