Crossword clues for ballooning
ballooning
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ballooning \Bal*loon"ing\, n.
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The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them; the sport of riding in balloons.
Syn: balloonry (archaic)
(Stock Exchange) The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales. [U.S.]
Wiktionary
1 growing rapidly as a balloon. 2 rising high in the air. n. 1 The act of something that swells or expands. 2 The sport or hobby of flying in a balloon. v
(present participle of balloon English)
WordNet
n. flying in a balloon
Wikipedia
Ballooning may refer to:
- Hot air ballooning
- Balloon (aircraft)
- Ballooning (spider)
- Ballooning degeneration (disease)
Ballooning, sometimes called kiting, is a means by which spiders, and some other small invertebrates, can move through the air by releasing one or more gossamer threads to catch the wind. By this means they are wafted aloft and are at the mercy of the air currents. This procedure is mostly used by spiderlings to disperse, but larger individuals have been observed using it. The spider climbs to a high point, stands on its toes and points its abdomen to the sky, releasing fine silk threads from its spinnerettes until lift off occurs. Journeys achieved vary from a few metres to hundreds of kilometres. Even atmospheric data have collected samples of balloons at five kilometres above the earth and ships in mid-ocean have reported spider landings. Mortality is high.
Usage examples of "ballooning".
Rouleau, as instructed, made his preparation for the ballooning with slow deliberation, giving Fitzfarris ample time to do a booming business with his game.
Day by day the ballooning fever grew more intense, and when the King of Sweden visited Paris of course he had to be entertained with a grand display of the new discovery.
Anyway, this was more important than ballooning so Stafford picked up the telephone to cancel the appointment with Hunt.
And while in ballooning there is no wind, since the balloon is a part of the wind, flying is a wild perpetual creation of and plunging into wind.
As far as the scale of things was concerned, he might have been ballooning over an ordinary cloudscape in India.
As far as the scale of things was concerned, he might have been ballooning over an ordinary cboudscape on Earth.
A tenuous aerogel foam bubbled and farted, rushing out into a ballooning mass as the dog lunged forward, teeth snapping, making a soft growling sound deep in its throat.
Much of the pollution was aeroplankton shells ballooning on their cubic millimeters of hydrogen.
Geli knows a friend of a friend who stays out on a farm in the Goldene Aue, a ballooning enthusiast named Schnorp, who is heading toward Berlin.
During the ride, Rouleau eagerly inquired of Edge what else he knew about balloons and the technicalities of ballooning.
The thick undergrowth of ballooning weeds, pitcher plants, and rubbery reedlike growths rustled and flapped, spattering water on her shins.
What surprised me, brothers, was the way that had been cleaned up, there being no longer any dirty ballooning slovos from the rots of the Dignified Labourers, not any dirty parts of the body added to their naked plotts by dirty-minded pencilling malchicks.
And in each of these universes, the process continues, with new universes sprouting from far-flung regions in the old, generating a never ending web of ballooning cosmic expanses.
Finally Mrs Wright bought herself a velvet dress which, she explained, was suitable to her age and appearance and Emily, carried away by the excitement of the shops with all their Christmas delights, allowed herself--with no difficulty at all--to be persuaded into buying a lovely flyaway chiffon dress in rose pink, its scooped-out neckline bound with a darker satin and with ballooning elbow sleeves.
The door of the cabin opened and Dilsey emerged once more, this time in a man's felt hat and an army overcoat, beneath the frayed skirts of which her blue gingham dress fell in uneven balloonings, streaming too about her as she crossed the yard and mounted the steps to the kitchen door.