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Synonyms for BALLAST
ˈbæl əstbal·last
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Princeton's WordNet
ballastnoun
any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship
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light ballast, ballast resistor, barretterballastnoun
coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads
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light ballast, ballast resistor, barretterballastnoun
an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings
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light ballast, ballast resistor, barretterballast resistor, ballast, barretternoun
a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations)
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ballast, light ballast, ballast resistor, barretterballast, light ballastverb
an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps
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ballast, light ballast, ballast resistor, barretterballastverb
make steady with a ballast
Dictionary of English Synonymes
ballastnoun
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weight (for steadiness), ballastingballastnoun
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prudence, discretion, judgment, sense, wisdom, TACT, GUMPTION, common senseballastverb
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put ballast into
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
ballastnoun
Synonyms:
steadiness, self-control, equipoise, stability, judgment
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Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
ballast
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See Isomeric ballast
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How to use BALLAST in a sentence?
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life
It's common for folks to look at bonds as a ballast at times when stocks aren't doing as well, for the average investor, fixed income can serve an important function.
If we can get the density of this instrument just right, it will sit neither sinking nor floating. Now that's easy to say but it's actually a considerable challenge to do... They weigh about 100 kilograms and we need to ballast them to approximately better than one gram. So that's a considerable challenge. The way that we do that is by putting them in tanks of water... and adding weights until they're just sinking; at which point we know they have the same density as the water that they're sitting in.
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
The built sites provide ballast and cashflow, it becomes real at the very beginning and that turns this from an announcement in to a genuine fund with genuine cash.
Translations for BALLAST
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- баластра, баласт, товарBulgarian
- zátěžCzech
- ballastDanish
- ballasten, Ballast, beschottern, Bettung, SchotterGerman
- σαβούρα, έρμαGreek
- balastoEsperanto
- balastro, balasto, lastre, balastra, lastrarSpanish
- ballastima, ballastEstonian
- painolasti, sepelöidä, kuristin, tasapainottaaFinnish
- ballast, lest, ballasterFrench
- pemberatIndonesian
- balastizar, balastoIdo
- massicciata, zavorra, regolatoreItalian
- バラストJapanese
- ballastiKalaallisut, Greenlandic
- saburram,Latin
- taowaka, pēhanga kowhatuMāori
- ballast, ballastbed, beddingDutch
- fundament, ballast, ballasteNorwegian
- balastPolish
- balastro, lastroPortuguese
- balast, lestRomanian
- балла́стRussian
- баласт, balastSerbo-Croatian
- balast, balastojAlbanian
- ballast, barlastSwedish
- நிலைப்படுத்தும்Tamil
- balastTurkish
- 鎮流器Chinese
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