different between mongoose vs balloon

English

Wikispecies

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• mungoose (archaic)

Etymology

1690s. Borrowed from Portuguese mangusto, from Marathi ?????? (mu?g?s), from Old Marathi ???????????????????????? (mu?gusa), from Telugu ?????? (mu?gisa). Spelling altered by folk-etymological association with goose. Displaced native Old English n?dreb?ta (literally “snake biter”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??.?u?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m??.?us/, /?m??.?us/

Noun

mongoose (plural mongooses or (nonstandard) mongeese)

1. Any of several species of generalist predatory Carnivores in the family Herpestidae; the various species range in size from rats to large cats. The Indian mongoose is noted as a predator of venomous snakes, though other mongoose species have similar habits.
2. Any species of Malagasy mongooses; only distantly related to the Herpestidae, these are members of the family Eupleridae; they resemble mongooses in appearance and habits, but have larger ears and ringed tails.

Derived terms

• African mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon)
• Angolan slender mongoose (Galerella flavescens)
• banded mongoose (Mungos mungo)
• Bengal mongoose (Herpestes javanicus palustris)
• black-footed mongoose (Bdeogale nigripes)
• black-legged mongoose (Bdeogale nigripes)
• black mongoose (Galerella nigrata)
• brown-tailed mongoose (Salanoia concolor)
• bushy-tailed mongoose (Bdeogale crassicauda)
• Cape gray mongoose (Galerella pulverulenta)
• collared mongoose (Herpestes semitorquatus)
• common dwarf mongoose (Helogale parvula)
• common mongoose (Herpestes edwardsi)
• crab-eating mongoose (Herpestes urva)
• dwarf mongoose (Helogale parvula)
• Egyptian mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon)
• Gambian mongoose (Mungos gambianus)
• Grandidier's mongoose (Galidictis grandidieri)
• Indian brown mongoose (Herpestes fuscus)
• Indian gray mongoose/Indian mongoose (Herpestes edwardsi)
• Liberian mongoose (Liberiictis kuhni)
• long-nosed mongoose (Herpestes naso)
• Jackson's mongoose (Bdeogale jacksoni)
• Javan mongoose (Herpestes javanicus)
• large gray mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon)
• marsh mongoose (Herpestes javanicus palustris)
• Meller's mongoose (Rhynchogale melleri)
• mongoose bat
• mongoose lemur (Eulemur mongoz)
• narrow-striped mongoose (Mungotictis decemlineata)
• Pousargues's mongoose (Dologale dybowskii)
• ring-tailed mongoose (Galidia elegans)
• ruddy mongoose (Herpestes smithii)
• Selous's mongoose (Paracynictis selousi)
• short-tailed mongoose (Herpestes brachyurus)
• slender mongoose (Galerella sanguinea)
• stripe-necked mongoose (Herpestes vitticollis)
• Somalian slender mongoose (Galerella ochracea)
• white-tailed mongoose (Ichneumia albicauda)
• yellow mongoose (Cynictis penicillata)
• zebra mongoose (Mungos mungo)

Translations

Anagrams

• gonosome

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