bladder — Dicionário de inglês

Substantivo

1. A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.

   Sinônimos

   vesica

2. Specifically, the urinary bladder.

   Sinônimos

   vesica

3. A hollow, inflatable organ of a plant.

4. The inflatable bag inside various balls used in sports, such as footballs and rugby balls.

5. A container in the form of a flexible bag.

   Exemplos

   a fuel bladder

6. A container in the form of a flexible bag. A sealed plastic bag that contains wine and is usually packaged in a cask.

7. Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.

   Uso

   • figurado

   Exemplos

   to swim with bladders of philosophy

Verbo

1. To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.

   Exemplos

   bladder'd up with pride of his own merit

2. To store or put up in bladders.

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Exemplos

   bladdered lard

Substantivo

1. a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas)

   Sinônimos

   vesica

   Termos mais gerais

   sac

2. a bag that fills with air

   Termos mais gerais

   bag