balloon vs fountain

balloon

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

  • 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 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. 

verb
  • 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. 

  • To increase or expand rapidly. 

fountain

noun
  • A drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into. 

  • An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure. 

  • A natural source of water; a spring. 

  • A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn. 

  • A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge). 

  • A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it. 

  • A roundel barry wavy argent and azure. 

  • A ground-based firework that projects sparks similar to a water fountain. 

  • Anything that resembles a fountain in operation. 

  • The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue. 

  • A soda fountain. 

verb
  • To flow or gush as if from a fountain. 

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