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Meanings of loon in English

Russian
loon
Portuguese
projeto loon
Spanish
project loon

Company working on balloons that provide internet access.

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        loon
        Portuguese
        mobelha
        Catalan
        gaviforme
        Spanish
        gavia

        Large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes.

              mobelha

              A person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought.

                    Language in Maluku.

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                          Usage of loon in English
                          1
                          Rather it used to be, before I went into the loon house.
                          Mister Slaughter
                          2
                          A loon, Abigail had said-thoughthere were no loons in these parts.
                          In the shadow of gotham
                          3
                          A loon cried out on the lake; moths battered the stoop light.
                          Bag of Bones
                          4
                          The loon forgot his love-sickness, and screamed raucous defiance at the moon.
                          The Country Beyond: A Romance of the Wilderness
                          5
                          Strange to say, a loon was once pulled up with the shad.
                          Nature's Serial Story
                          6
                          The effort was ridiculous, and he but flopped like a winged loon.
                          A Man and a Woman
                          7
                          At the end of his emperorship, he was something of a loon.'
                          Sign of the cross
                          8
                          Not of the funeral bell variety, but rather of a drunken loon.
                          Mister Slaughter
                          9
                          Well, one night I hearn a loon, or thought I hearn one.
                          Sevenoaks: A Story of Today
                          10
                          To a pale-faced loon from Cheshire, it felt like Dante's fiery furnace.
                          Paths of glory
                          11
                          He was peering round the old loon, trying to read the labels.
                          The Naked God
                          12
                          When ye kin stick a fork in the grin'stone, the loon's done!
                          Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp; Or, The Old Lumberman's Secret
                          13
                          A barred loon called from the far end of the lake.
                          The truth of valor
                          14
                          At times the call of the loon breaks the evening air.
                          The Tarn of Eternity
                          15
                          It went willingly, like a loon diving under the water after a fish.
                          Oracle's Queen
                          16
                          When caught and placed in our kind of captivity, the loon goes daft.
                          The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observ...
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                          Translations for loon
                          Catalan
                          gaviforme
                          Loon through the time
                          Loon across language varieties
                          United Kingdom
                          Common
                          United States of America
                          Common