The difference between Balloon and Fumetto
When used as nouns, balloon means an inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible, whereas fumetto means a speech bubble.
Balloon is also verb with the meaning: to increase or expand rapidly.
check bellow for the other definitions of Balloon and Fumetto
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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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Fumetto as a noun:
A speech bubble.