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Garland vs Balloon - What's the difference?

garland | balloon |

As a proper noun garland

is for a maker or seller of garlands.

As a noun balloon is

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

As a verb balloon is

to increase or expand rapidly.

garland

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia garland)
  • A wreath, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.
  • (Alexander Pope)
  • An accolade or mark of honour.
  • (mining) A metal gutter placed round a mine shaft on the inside, to catch water running down inside the shaft and run it into a drainpipe.
  • The crown of a monarch.
  • (Grafton)
  • (dated) A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.
  • * Percy
  • They [ballads] began to be collected into little miscellanies under the name of garlands .
  • The top; the thing most prized.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • (nautical) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provisions in.
  • (nautical) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.
  • See also

    * chaplet

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To deck or ornament something with a garland
  • To form something into a garland
  • balloon

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia balloon) (en noun)
  • An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
  • Such an object as a child’s toy.
  • Such an object designed to transport people through the air.
  • (medicine) A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
  • A speech bubble.
  • A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
  • (architecture) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
  • the balloon of St. Paul's Cathedral in London
  • (chemistry) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
  • (pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell.
  • A game played with a large inflated ball.
  • (engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
  • Synonyms

    * (inflatable object) * toy balloon * (transport) hot-air balloon, Montgolfier * (in medicine) * (speech bubble) speech bubble, fumetto

    Derived terms

    * barrage balloon * balloon animal * balloon-back * balloon barrage * balloon clock * balloon club * balloon flower * ballooning * balloonist * balloon sail * balloon tyre * balloon vine * go down like a lead balloon * hot-air balloon * pilot balloon * trial balloon * weather balloon * when the balloon goes up

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To increase or expand rapidly.
  • His stomach ballooned from eating such a large meal.
    Prices will balloon if we don't act quickly.
  • To go up or voyage in a balloon.
  • To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
  • See also

    * airship * ball * ballonet * blimp * dirigible * gondola * zeppelin