balloon

balloon
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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. aerostat, blimp; free, sounding, kite, pilot, or dirigible balloon; fire balloon, montgolfier. See aviation. —v. i. swell. See convexity.
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(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. dirigible, aircraft, airship, weather balloon, nondirigible aerostat, montgolfier, free balloon, captive balloon, kite balloon, lighter-than-air craft, toy balloon, zeppelin, observation balloon, barrage balloon, radar balloon, blimp*, bag*, sausage*, gasbag*, zep*.
v.
Syn. bloat, swell up, expand; see inflate 2 .
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(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)
I
n.
aerostat, lighter-than-air craft.
WORD FIND
• altitude-measuring device: altimeter
• anchor line: tether, dragrope, mooring line
• ascent/descent speed-measuring device: variometer
• basket: gondola
• bottom sleeve, where hot air is blown in: appendix, mouth
• broadest portion: equator
• burner’s lighter: sparker
• gas: hot air, helium, hydrogen
• ground crew: chase crew
• ground director of balloon activity: balloonmeister
• high-speed launch used in windy conditions: blastoff
• interior of bag: envelope
• pilot, passenger: aeronaut
• propane gas heater: burner
• rate of descent: sink
• weights, sandbags, used to control altitude: ballast
see blimp
II
v.
inflate, swell, expand, bloat, puff out, dilate, billow.
ANT.: deflate, contract, shrink
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) verb To curve outward past the normal or usual limit: bag, beetle, belly, bulge, jut, overhang, pouch, project, protrude, pro tuber ate, stand out, stick out. See CONVEX.

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