balloon vs contract

balloon

verb
  • To increase or expand rapidly. 

  • Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down. 

  • To go up or voyage in a balloon. 

  • To inflate like a balloon. 

  • To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air. 

  • To take up in, or as if in, a balloon. 

noun
  • Such an object designed to transport people or equipment through the air. 

  • An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible. 

  • A bomb or shell. 

  • The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure. 

  • A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form. 

  • A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy. 

  • A woman's breast. 

  • A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc. 

  • A speech bubble. 

  • Synonym of balloon payment 

  • Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration. 

  • A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty. 

  • A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc. 

contract

verb
  • To bring on; to incur; to acquire. 

  • To enter into a contract with. 

  • To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for. 

  • To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen. 

  • To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain. 

  • To betroth; to affiance. 

  • To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one. 

  • To gain or acquire (an illness). 

  • To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit. 

noun
  • An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone. 

  • An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed. 

  • An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement. 

  • The document containing such an agreement. 

  • A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts. 

  • The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump. 

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