different between balloon vs pancake

English

Etymology

1570, "a game played with a large, inflated leather ball" (possibly via Middle French ballon) from Italian pallone (“large ball”) from palla (“ball”), from Lombardic *palla. The Northern Italian form, balla (“ball shaped bundle”), today a doublet, likely derived from Old French balle, from Frankish *balla (“ball”), and may have influenced the spelling of this word. Both Germanic words are from Proto-Germanic *ballô (“ball”), *balluz, from Proto-Indo-European *b?oln- (“bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el- (“to blow, swell, inflate”). Akin to Old High German ballo, bal (“ball”), (German Ballen (“bale”); Ball "ball"). Doublet of ballon. More at ball.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??lu?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??lun/
• Rhymes: -u?n
• Hyphenation: bal?loon

Noun

balloon (plural balloons)

1. An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
2. Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.
3. Such an object designed to transport people through the air.
4. (medicine) A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
5. A speech bubble.
6. A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
7. (architecture) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.

   the balloon of St. Paul's Cathedral in London

8. (chemistry) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
9. (pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell.
10. (obsolete) A game played with a large inflated ball.
11. (engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
12. (slang) A woman's breast.

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:breasts

13. (slang) A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.
    • 2016, David Cornwell, Like it Matters

      And all I had to do in return was take a drive up to Ricardo's place on the way home and then a pretty edgy one back to Rondebosch with a balloon of coke sandwiched between two pairs of underpants.

14. (finance) Synonym of balloon payment
    • 1986, James M. Johnson, Fundamentals of finance for equipment lessors

      The purpose of the balloon is to reduce the periodic payment required during the life of the financing period.

Synonyms

• (inflatable object):
• (child’s toy): toy balloon
• (in medicine):
• (speech bubble): speech bubble, fumetto

Hyponyms

• (transport): hot-air balloon, Montgolfier

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Assamese: ????? (belun)
• ? Bengali: ????? (belun)
• ? Japanese: ???? (bar?n)
• ? Maori: par?nu
• ? Welsh: bal?n
• ? Zulu: ibhaloni

Translations

Verb

balloon (third-person singular simple present balloons, present participle ballooning, simple past and past participle ballooned)

1. (intransitive) To increase or expand rapidly.

   His stomach ballooned from eating such a large meal.

   Prices will balloon if we don't act quickly.
2. (intransitive) To go up or voyage in a balloon.
3. (transitive) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
4. (transitive) To inflate like a balloon.
   • 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, "Peach Scanties," [3]

     A puff of wind from the open door caught and ballooned the scanties; off they sailed, out the window billowing into freedom.

5. (transitive, sports) To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
   • 2015, Steve Wilson, A View From The Terraces (part 2, page 138)

     After four minutes, leading goalscorer Haworth slid in but ballooned the ball over from six yards, and Hume then outran the defence to get to the by-line, but he could only hit his cross straight out.

Translations

See also

• airship
• ball
• ballonet
• blimp
• dirigible
• gondola
• zeppelin

English

Etymology

From Middle English pancake, equivalent to pan +? cake. The juggling sense is by analogy with a pancake being tossed in a pan.

Compare Saterland Frisian Ponkouke, Ponkuuke (“pancake”), West Frisian pankoek (“pancake”), Dutch pannenkoek (“pancake”), German Low German Pannkook (“pancake”), German Pfannkuchen (“pancake”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæn.ke?k/, /?pæ?.ke?k/

Noun

pancake (plural pancakes)

1. A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter.
2. A U.S. style thicker batter cake fried in a pan.
3. (theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
4. (juggling) A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
5. Anything very thin and flat.
   • 2004, William H. Cropper, Great Physicists

     Most of the electrons would pass through the hadron pancake with no interaction, but a few would collide […]

6. Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.
   • 1903, Davis Rich Dewey, Twelfth Census of the United States: Special report: Employees and Wages p. 1200

     &hellip in the poorer grades the heel is made of scrap leather and leather board or pulp, finished with a solid leather top lift. The composite material, called pancake, is made by an operative, usually a girl, called a pancake-maker; it is used sometimes for soles as well as heels.

7. (film, slang) A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.

Synonyms

• (thin fried batter cake): crêpe/crepe, flapjack, griddle cake, hotcake, pikelet

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pancake (third-person singular simple present pancakes, present participle pancaking, simple past and past participle pancaked)

1. (intransitive) To make a pancake landing.
2. (construction, demolition) To collapse one floor after another.
3. (transitive) To flatten violently.

See also

• blintz
• okonomiyaki
• Pan-Cake
• waffle

Anagrams

• cakepan

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pan.k?k/

Noun

pancake m (plural pancakes)

1. pancake

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ponkake, pankake, panne cake

Etymology

From panne (“pan”) +? cake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?panka?k(?)/

Noun

pancake

1. pancake (kind of fried cake)

Descendants

• English: pancake
• Scots: pancake

References

• “panne-c?ke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-05.

Portuguese

Noun

pancake f (plural pancakes)

1. Dated form of panqueca.