Globe vs Ballon - What's the difference?
globe | ballon |
Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.
The planet Earth.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= 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)
A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
* Milton
To become spherical
----
(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
, passage=Tall and slender, with a superb ballon and effortless flight in air, Malakhov
As a proper noun globe
is a city in arizona.As a noun ballon is
balloon.globe
English
(wikipedia globe)Noun
(en noun)- the globe''' of the eye; the '''globe of a lamp
- (John Locke)
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.}}
- 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.
- Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed.
Synonyms
* (The Earth) Earth, world, Terra, Sol IIIDerived terms
* globe-trotter * show globe * snowglobeVerb
(glob)ballon
English
Noun
citation