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Globe vs Ballon - What's the difference?

globe | ballon |

As a proper noun globe

is a city in arizona.

As a noun ballon is

balloon.

globe

English

(wikipedia globe)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.
  • the globe''' of the eye; the '''globe of a lamp
  • The planet Earth.
  • (John Locke)
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli , passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe . Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
  • A spherical model of Earth or any planet.
  • (dated, or, Australia, South Africa) A light bulb.
  • * 1920 , Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific bulletin: volumes 9-10 (page 26)
  • Don't ask for a new globe just because the old one needs dusting. The old-style carbon lamps wasted electricity when they began to fade and it was economy to replace them.
  • A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
  • * Milton
  • Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed.

    Synonyms

    * (The Earth) Earth, world, Terra, Sol III

    Derived terms

    * globe-trotter * show globe * snowglobe

    Verb

    (glob)
  • To become spherical
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    ballon

    English

    Noun

  • (ballet) The quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair
  • * {{quote-news, 1988, November 18, Dorothy Samachson, Moscow Classical Ballet, Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=Tall and slender, with a superb ballon and effortless flight in air, Malakhov

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