ballooning
present participle ofballoon
| 单词 | ballooning |
| 释义 | ballooning present participle ofballoon balloon verb[I] uk/bəˈluːn/us/bəˈluːn/to getbiggerandrounder: I ballooned when I waspregnantwith my secondbaby. toquicklyincreaseinsize,weight, orimportance: Therumourssoonballoonedintoafull-blownscandal. Becoming bigger
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Enlarging and inflating Increasing and intensifying Examplesofballooningballooning In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. A number of themes and questions concerning lepidopteranballooningseem unresolved. From theCambridge English Corpus It seems quite unlikely that spiders can travel 5000 km in oneballooningevent. From theCambridge English Corpus This knowledge is then incorporated into the current evolutionary phylogenies to examine howballooningmight have arisen. From theCambridge English Corpus Inflation did pick up somewhat after the presidential election, perhaps because of inflationary expectations created by theballooningof government debt. From theCambridge English Corpus Also, for the high-nballooningmodes, the trapped electrons reduce the pressure perturbations. From theCambridge English Corpus Secondly,ballooningspider mites are strongly polyphagous and widely distributed in many types of habitats. From theCambridge English Corpus For spider mites and moth larvae,ballooningis generally used to facilitate local dispersal. From theCambridge English Corpus The evolutionary discussions take the form of an orderby-order treatment of theballooningbehaviours and the ecological phylogenetics of spiders, spider mites and moth larvae. From theCambridge English Corpus Normally, the calculation ofballooningmode stability is complicated, requiring information about the plasma equilibrium and geometry. From theCambridge English Corpus That said, there are still differences between spiders and the other twoballooningorders. From theCambridge English Corpus Other scholars have concentrated on individuals or local efforts with a particular emphasis onballooningfirsts orballooningdisasters. From theCambridge English Corpus A handful of biochemical studies have highlighted the effects ofballooningon population genetics, helping to improve our understanding of the settling distribution. From theCambridge English Corpus Environmental conditions (food supply and temperature, both immediate and during development) explained more variation inballooninglatency than did family lineage (genotype). From theCambridge English Corpus It may be thatballooningis not attempted in conditions where the probabilities of remaining within the air column become too high. From theCambridge English Corpus However,ballooningis different from all other dispersal modes because it is inextricably linked to an individual's ability to produce silk. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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