I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
barrage balloon
blow up...balloon
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Can you blow up this balloon ?
hot-air balloon
trial balloon
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Senator Lott is floating trial balloons to test public opinion on the bill.
went down like a lead balloon (= was not popular or successful )
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The idea went down like a lead balloon .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
air
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The steel rope had to be used because a normal tight rope wouldn't keep taut between two unpredictable hot air balloons .
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Read in studio A rather unusual hot air balloon has completed its maiden voyage.
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Vologsky might as well try to take off and escape in a hot air balloon .
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Is it not yet another of the Secretary of State's hot air balloons ?
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Read in studio Five hundred homes had their power supplies cut when a hot air balloon collided with high voltage cables.
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Read in studio A world record has been set for tight rope walking between two hot air balloons .
barrage
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The winch man was running out the cable, allowing the barrage balloon to rise.
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Through his window, Carrington could see a silver barrage balloon , rising slowly on its cable into the clear blue sky.
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They flew barrage balloons , commissioned perspectives and held a public inquiry.
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Cider and Guinness had given him a barrage balloon for a stomach.
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Do you remember barrage balloons Bobbing around like airborne swine?
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It was now quite clear that barrage balloons were much more a hindrance than a help to London.
helium
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Visual effects feature largely in this community arts venture, and have included helium balloons and fireworks.
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People left the auditorium that morning trailing their doubts behind them like children dragging exhausted helium balloons .
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I wish people would stop buying helium balloons and letting them go.
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Breastfeeding does perky things to some women's statistics, but it left mine looking like two well-past-their-sell-by-date helium balloons .
lead
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Normally following that kind of response the ramp idea would go down like a lead balloon .
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Anyway these questions go down like a lead balloon .
■ VERB
blow
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You look like you have blown up like a balloon and you feel that you are a complete dieting failure.
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Tell the students to blow up the balloon and then tape the straw to the balloon.
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Work quickly or keep the cutting material in a plastic bag blown up like a balloon and sealed.
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But there are two ways of blowing up a balloon .
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There was a game where you blew up balloons and sat on them.
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The first players then have to blow the balloons back for the second person to take over.
burst
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The soldier, becoming bored with the game, laconically reached out his cigarette end and burst the balloon in my face.
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As soon as they succeed the next person in the team bursts her balloon and the game continues until everyone has finished.
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Dad was better than anyone; he burst six balloons , one after the other.
fill
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It is an elevating experience filling gas balloons for the Christmas party.
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It's a helium filled balloon with a kite attached.
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Water babies Fill balloons with warm water and knot the tops securely.
inflate
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We all started to inflate our balloons and eventually one burst.
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The final piece that we have to add is the generation of pressure without having to inflate a balloon to start with.
release
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The former Teesside Polytechnic celebrated its name change by releasing hundreds of balloons into the sky above Middlesbrough.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
go down like a lead balloon
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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hot air balloon rides
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A good cabinet officer will take a policy proposal, put a trial balloon out.
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For this design knit the single teddy starting on the seventh stitch to avoid knitting part of the balloon .
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I sail up the hill and along Hyde Hill Lane as if I were a balloon .
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It will be years before I will understand the significance of these little balloons.
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No cardiologist would insert a balloon .
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Tell the students to blow up the balloon and then tape the straw to the balloon.
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The balloons drop at midnight, and free champagne and party favors are included with your ticket.
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They're holding a huge festival in September with 70 balloons.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He ballooned to 300 pounds since college.
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The program's cost has ballooned from $270 million to more than $1 billion.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As firms' share of total deposits has ballooned, so Sberbank's relative power has shrivelled.
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Even as the black population ballooned, whites kept control of the City Council.
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He looked at Angelina and overate, the right side of his. face ballooned like a heavyweight squirrel.
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In recent years, the local police force has ballooned from two officers to 11.
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In this view, hot, insulated mantle wells up beneath a supercontinent, causing it to balloon upward.
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Worse, hard drives in recent years have ballooned in size.