The difference between Balloon and Blimp
When used as nouns, balloon means an inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible, whereas blimp means an airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container.
When used as verbs, balloon means to increase or expand rapidly, whereas blimp means to expand like a blimp or balloon.
check bellow for the other definitions of Balloon and Blimp
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Balloon as a noun:
An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
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Balloon as a noun:
Such an object as a child's toy.
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Balloon as a noun:
Such an object designed to transport people through the air.
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Balloon as a noun (medicine):
A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
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Balloon as a noun:
A speech bubble.
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Balloon as a noun:
A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
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Balloon as a noun (architecture):
A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
Examples:
"the balloon of St. Paul's Cathedral in London"
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Balloon as a noun (chemistry):
A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
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Balloon as a noun (pyrotechnics):
A bomb or shell.
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Balloon as a noun (obsolete):
A game played with a large inflated ball.
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Balloon as a noun (engraving):
The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
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Balloon as a noun (slang):
A woman's breast.
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Balloon as a verb (intransitive):
To increase or expand rapidly.
Examples:
"His stomach ballooned from eating such a large meal."
"Prices will balloon if we don't act quickly."
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Balloon as a verb (intransitive):
To go up or voyage in a balloon.
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Balloon as a verb (transitive):
To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
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Balloon as a verb (transitive):
To inflate like a balloon.
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Balloon as a verb (transitive, sports):
To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
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Blimp as a noun:
An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container.
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Blimp as a noun (by extension):
Any large airborne inflatable.
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Blimp as a noun (slang):
An obese person.
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Blimp as a noun:
A person similar to the cartoon character Colonel Blimp; a pompous, reactionary British man.
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Blimp as a verb (slang, intransitive):
To expand like a blimp or balloon; to become fat.
Examples:
"After college, she started blimping and could no longer wear her favorite little black dress."
"Over a few years the software had blimped into typical bloatware."