Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Lightness in movement that allows a dancer to appear to remain suspended during a jump.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bale of paper, etc.
- noun Same as
balloon , 1, 2.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun ballet The quality of a
jump by which aballet dancer appears to pause inmidair
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Thu 11/12/09 10: 14 AM yea just kill eric in the handsome cab accident or maybe a ballon from the Macy’s parade take shim away alah “ballon-boy” let V and Rufus get it onnnnnn! yyyyyy
'Gossip Girl' recap: Dan, Olivia, and Vanessa get REEEEAAAAALLLLY close | EW.com 2009
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Hey, how do we do the cool word ballon quote thing?
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #138 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Hey, how do we do the cool word ballon quote thing?
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #138 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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On the subject of the Super Happy Youth or whatever, if you reread that word ballon, they never state that the Great Ten were in Japan. only that the SHY made a mess of the situation there.
Week 6: Sent Forth from the Power Douglas Wolk 2006
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During the daytime this ballon was a silvery gleam against the blue of the sky and at night it was caught in the purple glow of a searchlight.
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Eisner's visually symbolic use of storytelling devices (the recursive images, the strong sense of place, the physicality of the Spirit himself, the use of word ballon and sound effect placement, and more) make him a great subject for aesthetic analysis, and even young students can talk about what they see and what he seems to be doing with the panels and pages and how it shapes the way they interpret the story.
Comic Book Resources 2010
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Remarkable was the purity of the port de bras, an art lost, indeed killed, in the U.S.: a clean, highly controlled curvilinear frame for the ladies' pretty heads, and an ergonomic support to the men's beautifully natural leaps powered by exceptional ballon, or "ballet bounce."
Debra Levine: Cubans Cruise Into L.A. With Classic Don Quixote Debra Levine 2011
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Remarkable was the purity of the port de bras, an art lost, indeed killed, in the U.S.: a clean, highly controlled curvilinear frame for the ladies' pretty heads, and an ergonomic support to the men's beautifully natural leaps powered by exceptional ballon, or "ballet bounce."
Debra Levine: Cubans Cruise Into L.A. With Classic Don Quixote Debra Levine 2011
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Maybe you should set up a ballon stand outside of your trailer and sell hot air ballons, moron mike
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Witness the DARPA ballon project last month. 10 balloons randomly placed around the US and an impromptu social network found them in 8: 52.
bilby commented on the word ballon
"Meaning: Buoyancy in the leaps of ballet dancers, the lightness that seems to suspend a dancer in thin air."
- alphadictionary.com
August 7, 2008