Decrease and Balloon

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

noun

• Large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air.
• Small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck.

verb

• Ride in a hot-air balloon.
  • usage: "He tried to balloon around the earth but storms forced him to land in China"
• Become inflated.
  • usage: "The sails ballooned"
  • synonyms: inflate, billow

• (v.t.) To take up in or as if in, a balloon.
• (n.) A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation.
• (n.) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
• (n.) The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
• (n.) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.
• (n.) A bomb or shell.
• (n.) A game played with a large inflated ball.
• (v.i.) To go up or voyage in a balloon.
• (v.i.) To expand or puff out, like a balloon.

Balloon is the loan balance remaining at the time the loan contract calls for full repayment.