different between dirigible vs ballonet

English

Etymology

From French dirigeable, from ballon dirigeable (“steerable balloon”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d???d??b??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d??.?.d??.b?l/

Noun

dirigible (plural dirigibles)

1. (aviation) A self-propelled airship that can be steered.

Hyponyms

• blimp
• nonrigid
• rigid
• semirigid
• Zeppelin

Translations

Adjective

dirigible (comparative more dirigible, superlative most dirigible)

1. steerable

Derived terms

• dirigibility
• indirigible

Translations

See also

• airship
• balloon
• barrage balloon
• blimp
• zeppelin, Zeppelin
• Wikipedia article on dirigibles

Spanish

Noun

dirigible m (plural dirigibles)

1. dirigible

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French ballonnet.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bal?n?t/, /bal??n?t/

Noun

ballonet (plural ballonets)

1. Any of several small balloons, inside a dirigible, that can be inflated or deflated to control buoyancy during flight.
   • 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage 2014, p. 27:

     An observation balloon, sausage-shaped and thickened at one end by small subsidiary ballonets, lifted itself, almost as though it were being hoisted by a series of pulls, out of one of the hollows beneath them […].

Dutch

Alternative forms

• ballonnet (uncommon)

Etymology

Borrowed from French ballonnet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?.l??n?t/
• Hyphenation: bal?lo?net
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

ballonet m (plural ballonetten)

1. (aviation) The ballonet of a blimp.

   Synonym: luchtzak

Related terms

• ballon