Word: ballast
Category: 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
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spanish
Translations:
lastre
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german
Translations:
schotter, ballast
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french
Translations:
ballast, lest, lester
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italian
Translations:
zavorra
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portuguese
Translations:
estiva, balastro
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dutch
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ballast
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russian
Translations:
балласт, щебень
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norwegian
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ballast
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swedish
Translations:
barlast
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finnish
Translations:
painolasti, kuorma
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danish
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ballast
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czech
Translations:
zátěž, přítěž, štěrk, balast
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polish
Translations:
balastowanie, balast, podsypka, zrównoważenie
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hungarian
Translations:
ballaszt, fenéksúly
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greek
Translations:
σαβούρα, σαβουρώνω, έρμα
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ukrainian
Translations:
баласт
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bulgarian
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баласт
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estonian
Translations:
ballastima
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croatian
Translations:
načela, gruž, pošljunčiti, balast
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macedonian
Translations:
баластот
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romanian
Translations:
lest
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slovenian
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balast
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slovak
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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.
- 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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