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Air that has been heated, especially so as to function as the lifting agent of a hot-air balloon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Qualifier: literal
Examples
- The balloon was equipped with a burner to create hot air for lift.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Empty, confused, or exaggerated talk lacking meaning or substance; bluster.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
loud and confused and empty talk
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: palaver, empty words, empty talk, rhetoric
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
air that has been heated and tends to rise
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: air
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
горещ въздух
(gorešt vǎzduh)
— heated air
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Finnish:
kuuma ilma
— heated air
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French:
air chaud
— heated air
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German:
Heißluft
— heated air
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Italian:
aria calda
— heated air
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Norwegian Bokmål:
varmluft
— heated air
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
varmluft
— heated air
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Polish:
gorące powietrze
— heated air
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Sicilian:
ària cauda
— heated air
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Sicilian:
àriu caudu
— heated air
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Swedish:
varmluft
— heated air
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Turkish:
sıcak hava
— heated air
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Bulgarian:
празни приказки
(prazni prikazki)
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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Dutch:
gebakken lucht
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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Finnish:
höpötys
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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Finnish:
hölynpöly
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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Finnish:
tyhjä puhe
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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Finnish:
turha puhe
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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French:
vent
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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German:
heiße Luft
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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German:
Geschwafel
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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Greek:
αερολογίες
(aerologíes)
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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Hebrew:
דברי הבל
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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Hebrew:
אוויר חם
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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Italian:
aria fritta
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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Italian:
fuffa
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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Polish:
bicie piany
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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Russian:
пусто́е
(pustóje)
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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Russian:
болтовня́
(boltovnjá)
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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Russian:
ли́рика
(lírika)
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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Sicilian:
minchiata
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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Sicilian:
minchiati
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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Spanish:
palabrería
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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Spanish:
jarabe de pico
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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Spanish:
palabras vacías
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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Swedish:
snack
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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Swedish:
tomma ord
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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Turkish:
atmasyon
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
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Turkish:
zırva
— empty, confused or exaggerated talk
