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Surf vs Ballooning - What's the difference?

surf | ballooning |

As nouns the difference between surf and ballooning

is that surf is waves that break on an ocean shoreline while ballooning is the act of something that swells or expands.

As verbs the difference between surf and ballooning

is that surf is to ride a wave, usually on a surfboard while ballooning is present participle of balloon.

As an adjective ballooning is

growing rapidly as a balloon.

surf

English

(wikipedia surf)

Noun

(-)
  • Waves that break on an ocean shoreline.
  • * 1883 ,
    • ...perhaps it was the look of the island, with its gray, melancholy woods, and wild stone spires, and the surf that we could both see and hear foaming and thundering on the steep beach...
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5
    • 'But when the surf fell enough for the boats to get ashore, and Greening held a lantern for me to jump down into the passage, after we had got the side out of the tomb, the first thing the light fell on at the bottom was a white face turned skyward.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , page=12 , year=1900 , author=Joseph Grinnell , title=Birds of the Kotzebue Sound Region, Alaska citation , passage=It was alone, nervously alighting and flying short distances along the surf .}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , page=248 , year=1941 , author=Raymond Russell Camp , title=Fishing the Surf citation , passage=In most instances the inshore holes or pockets along the surf do not produce as well as the cuts or sloughs between sand bars.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , page=181 , year=1963 , author=Vlad Evanoff , title=Spin Fishing citation , passage=Snook are found in rivers, canals, inlets and along the surf , especially around sand bars, tidal rips, jetties, bridges and piers.}}
  • (UK, dialect) The bottom of a drain.

    • Derived terms

    * surf line * surf rider noun

    Verb

    (surf)
  • To ride a wave, usually on a surfboard.
  • To browse the Internet.

    • Derived terms

    * surfer noun

    Derived terms

    * (ride a wave) surfer, surfing, surfboard * (browse the Internet) silver surfer

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    ballooning

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Growing rapidly as a balloon.
  • Rising high in the air.

    • Noun

  • The act of something that swells or expands.
  • * 2013 , Margaret McCartney, The Patient Paradox (page 95)
    • This major artery from the heart to the lower body, the aorta, can indeed develop aneurysms. These balloonings of the shape of the normally straight artery may cause no bother, no symptoms and no complications.
  • The sport or hobby of flying in a balloon.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
  • The mechanical kiting used by spiders, mites, caterpillars, etc. to travel through the air.

    • Verb

    (head)