"barrage balloon" meaning in English

See barrage balloon in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: barrage balloons [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} barrage balloon (plural barrage balloons)
  1. (historical, military) A tethered balloon, attached to the ground with a metal cable, intended to deter low-flying enemy aircraft; used especially in World War II. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Military Related terms: tethered aerostat Translations (tethered balloon for deterring enemy aircraft): sulkupallo (Finnish), Sperrballon [masculine] (German)
    Sense id: en-barrage_balloon-en-noun-O8s0-Ces Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: government, military, politics, war

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for barrage balloon meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "barrage balloons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "barrage balloon (plural barrage balloons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Military",
          "orig": "en:Military",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A tethered balloon, attached to the ground with a metal cable, intended to deter low-flying enemy aircraft; used especially in World War II."
      ],
      "id": "en-barrage_balloon-en-noun-O8s0-Ces",
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "tether",
          "tether"
        ],
        [
          "balloon",
          "balloon"
        ],
        [
          "metal",
          "metal"
        ],
        [
          "cable",
          "cable"
        ],
        [
          "deter",
          "deter"
        ],
        [
          "enemy",
          "enemy"
        ],
        [
          "aircraft",
          "aircraft"
        ],
        [
          "World War II",
          "World War II"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, military) A tethered balloon, attached to the ground with a metal cable, intended to deter low-flying enemy aircraft; used especially in World War II."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "tethered aerostat"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "tethered balloon for deterring enemy aircraft",
          "word": "sulkupallo"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "tethered balloon for deterring enemy aircraft",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Sperrballon"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "barrage balloon"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "barrage balloons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "barrage balloon (plural barrage balloons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "tethered aerostat"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "en:Military"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A tethered balloon, attached to the ground with a metal cable, intended to deter low-flying enemy aircraft; used especially in World War II."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "tether",
          "tether"
        ],
        [
          "balloon",
          "balloon"
        ],
        [
          "metal",
          "metal"
        ],
        [
          "cable",
          "cable"
        ],
        [
          "deter",
          "deter"
        ],
        [
          "enemy",
          "enemy"
        ],
        [
          "aircraft",
          "aircraft"
        ],
        [
          "World War II",
          "World War II"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, military) A tethered balloon, attached to the ground with a metal cable, intended to deter low-flying enemy aircraft; used especially in World War II."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "tethered balloon for deterring enemy aircraft",
      "word": "sulkupallo"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "tethered balloon for deterring enemy aircraft",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Sperrballon"
    }
  ],
  "word": "barrage balloon"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.