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Picture vs Balloon - What's the difference?

picture | balloon |

In lang=en terms the difference between picture and balloon

is that picture is to depict while balloon is to take up in, or as if in, a balloon.

As nouns the difference between picture and balloon

is that picture is a representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc while balloon is an inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.

As verbs the difference between picture and balloon

is that picture is to represent in or with a picture while balloon is to increase or expand rapidly.

picture

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
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  • *:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author= , volume=100, issue=2, page=106, magazine=(w) , title= Pixels or Perish , passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
  • An image; a representation as in the imagination.
  • *(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
  • *:My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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  • *:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture . I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
  • *2007 , The Workers' Republic
  • *:Prior to seeing him and meeting him, and hearing him speak, I had conjured up a picture' of him in my mind, which actual contact with him proved to be an illusion. I had conceived of him.
  • A painting.
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  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=3 citation , passage=Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures , mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.}}
  • A photograph.
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  • (label) A motion picture.
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  • ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).
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  • A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).
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  • The art of painting; representation by painting.
  • *Sir (Henry Wotton) (1568-1639)
  • *:any well-expressed imageeither in picture or sculpture
  • A figure; a model.
  • *(James Howell) (c.1594–1666)
  • *:the young king's picture in virgin wax
  • Synonyms

    * (representation as in the imagination) image

    Derived terms

    * out of the picture * picture-perfect * picture postcard * (as) pretty as a picture * the big picture * picturesque * picture framing

    Verb

    (pictur)
  • To represent in or with a picture.
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  • To imagine or envision.
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  • Picture yourself on a boat on a river / With tangerine trees and marmalade skies,
  • To depict.
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    Noun

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  • 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