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Meanings of captive balloons in English
Spanish
globo cautivo Hot air balloon attached to the ground.
Synonyms
Examples for "moored balloon"
Examples for "moored balloon"
1
! The provost pulled up a chair and settled in, staring at the undulating bubble, suspended like a tethered balloon beneath the water.
1
A captive balloon had signalled the position, and shrapnels were bursting close.
2
The usefulness of the captive balloon in this war is doubtful.
3
These endeavours culminated in the Parseval-Siegsfeld captive balloon, which has a quaint appearance.
4
A captive balloon should be arranged for the use of visitors.
5
Shackleton's gasoline motor-car and Scott's captive balloon were of considerable but limited use.
1
Colorful lanterns are strung up and blowing in the wind like tethered balloons.
2
But interest in lighter-than-air vehicles-from rigid airships and soft blimps, to tethered balloons and hybrid balloon-kites-remainsstrongin the military.
Usage of captive balloons in English
1
The captive balloons, and other landmarks, enabled them to keep to their course.
2
With regard to observations from captive balloons much depends on circumstances.
3
In communicating between points on land, poles of great height can be used, or captive balloons.
4
We saw two captive balloons, used by the French to direct artillery fire on their enemies.
5
This lamentable deficiency was remedied in great measure by recourse to topographical photographs taken from the captive balloons.
6
The Germans used captive balloons, whose officers signaled the points in the Belgian defense at which they should aim.
7
By means of captive balloons, currents of electricity between the higher atmosphere and the earth are kept passing regularly.
8
Meanwhile, as captive balloons, the German and other armies used them for observation and the direction of artillery fire.
9
A dozen of those captive balloons which the soldiers call "sausages" formed an aerial semi-circle and kept watch.
10
A French flyer had dropped it that afternoon with intent to destroy one of the German captive balloons and its operator.
11
He saw high up in the air three captive balloons, from which some of Hooker's officers looked upon the Southern intrenchments.
12
We had no sooner taken wing than the aeroplane was sighted by German observers in captive balloons anchored about six miles distant.
13
Hooker, still in command, was watching on the heights across the river, and there were the captive balloons hovering again in the sky.
14
At dawn on the second day an artillery duel began across the embankment, the German fire being corrected by observers in captive balloons.
15
Germany was somewhat later in the field; the military value of captive balloons was not appreciated and taken into serious consideration here until 1884.
16
Nothing more: wisps of smoke, brief flashes visible even in broad daylight, and a string of captive balloons, motionless and observant witnesses of all.
This collocation consists of:
Captive balloons through the time
Captive balloons across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common