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balloon
Noun
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A balloon is a light round ball filled with air that floats; often a child's toy.
My balloon floated away into the sky.
balloon
Verb
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If something balloons that means it grows very fast.
The price of oil has ballooned.
ozone
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noun
a colorless gas (O3) soluble in alkalis and cold water; a strong oxidizing agent; can be produced by electric discharge in oxygen or by the action of ultraviolet radiation on oxygen in the stratosphere (where it acts as a screen for ultraviolet radiation)
sounding
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adjective
(= looking)
appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms
left their clothes dirty looking
a most disagreeable looking character
angry-looking
liquid-looking
severe-looking policemen on noble horses
fine-sounding phrases
taken in by high-sounding talk
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adjective
having volume or deepness
sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal
the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion
— Wordsworth
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adjective
making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form
harsh-sounding
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noun
a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line
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noun
the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)