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# balloon

«balloon» in Mova's school dictionary: **a thin rubber bag that you fill with air or gas; it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (balloon, balloons); verb (balloon — to swell up fast)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A balloon is a thin rubber bag that you fill with air or gas; it floats if filled with helium. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/balloon/#m1)

2) A hot-air balloon is a very big balloon with a basket that can carry people through the sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/balloon/#m2)

3) To balloon is to grow bigger very fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/balloon/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a counted thing in problems; at parties and celebrations; in science balloons show air takes up space, and a rubbed balloon sticks to a wall (static electricity); in safety, burst balloons can choke small children

### examples

- There are 4 bags. Each bag has 7 balloons. How many balloons are there? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/balloon/#x1)
- Sam had 12 balloons and 5 popped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/balloon/#x2)
- Mia has 6 red balloons and 3 blue balloons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/balloon/#x3)
- We blew up balloons for Dad's party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/balloon/#x4)
- The balloon floated up into the sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/balloon/#x5)
- Rub a balloon on your hair and it sticks to the wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/balloon/#x6)
- A hot-air balloon drifted over the fields. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/balloon/#x7)
- Pop! The balloon burst when it hit the rose bush. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/balloon/#x8)
- “Well, really,” exclaimed a small Fire-balloon, “why not? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/balloon/#x9)

### note

The thing being counted; no clue for the operation. Trap: balloons that pop or fly away are gone: subtract them. Spelling: double l and double o: balloon. Keep burst balloons away from babies.

### In the corpora

- [Water inside plant cells pushes outwards and keeps stems firm, like air in a balloon; without enough water the plant wilts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/11/)
- [A blown-up balloon shrinks a little in the cold and grows again when warmed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/9/)
- [Carbon dioxide is heavier than air, so a balloon filled with it from the reaction does not float.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/18-the-fizz-vinegar-lemon-and-soda/13/)
- [Helium atoms are so tiny they slip through the rubber skin of a party balloon, so it shrinks in a few days.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/20-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons/6/)
- [The first hot-air balloon passengers, in 1783, were a sheep, a duck and a cockerel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/20-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «balloon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/balloon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.