Word: ballast

Category: ballast

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Related words: ballast

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Synonyms: ballast

companion, friend, colleague, associate, partner, coworker, workmate, pal, crony, mate, chum, buddy, dawg, peeps, familiar, fellow, brother

Translations: ballast

ballast in spanish

Dictionary:
spanish
Translations:
lastre

ballast in german

Dictionary:
german
Translations:
schotter, ballast

ballast in french

Dictionary:
french
Translations:
ballast, lest, lester

ballast in italian

Dictionary:
italian
Translations:
zavorra

ballast in portuguese

Dictionary:
portuguese
Translations:
estiva, balastro

ballast in dutch

Dictionary:
dutch
Translations:
ballast

ballast in russian

Dictionary:
russian
Translations:
балласт, щебень

ballast in norwegian

Dictionary:
norwegian
Translations:
ballast

ballast in swedish

Dictionary:
swedish
Translations:
barlast

ballast in finnish

Dictionary:
finnish
Translations:
painolasti, kuorma

ballast in danish

Dictionary:
danish
Translations:
ballast

ballast in czech

Dictionary:
czech
Translations:
zátěž, přítěž, štěrk, balast

ballast in polish

Dictionary:
polish
Translations:
balastowanie, balast, podsypka, zrównoważenie

ballast in hungarian

Dictionary:
hungarian
Translations:
ballaszt, fenéksúly

ballast in greek

Dictionary:
greek
Translations:
σαβούρα, σαβουρώνω, έρμα

ballast in ukrainian

Dictionary:
ukrainian
Translations:
баласт

ballast in bulgarian

Dictionary:
bulgarian
Translations:
баласт

ballast in estonian

Dictionary:
estonian
Translations:
ballastima

ballast in croatian

Dictionary:
croatian
Translations:
načela, gruž, pošljunčiti, balast

ballast in macedonian

Dictionary:
macedonian
Translations:
баластот

ballast in romanian

Dictionary:
romanian
Translations:
lest

ballast in slovenian

Dictionary:
slovenian
Translations:
balast

ballast in slovak

Dictionary:
slovak
Translations:
balast

The meaning and "use of": ballast

noun
  • heavy material, such as gravel, sand, iron, or lead, placed low in a vessel to improve its stability. - Many ships discharge their ballast and bilge during loading and unloading because many Black Sea ports lack reception facilities.
  • gravel or coarse stone used to form the bed of a railroad track or road. - Some 97,000 tonnes of stone were transported in and 10,000 tonnes of ballast laid along the track bed.
  • a passive component used in an electric circuit to moderate changes in current. - The third electrode may be biased at the potential of the anode through a ballast resistor, and be located near the cathode.
verb
  • give stability to (a ship) by putting a heavy substance in its bilge. - the vessel has been ballasted to give the necessary floating stability
  • form (the bed of a railroad line or road) with gravel or coarse stone. - Even if it had been told that Soviet Railways ballasted thousands of miles of track with asbestos waste it would not have cared.

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