ballast
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- noun
- /ˈbæl.əst/
- Specialized
:
lastre
- We'll compensate with sea water ballast till we get back to port.
- ballast weights
- ballast water
- ballast tanks
So the ballast is needed for ship stability.
- So the ballast is needed for ship stability.
- These got to the Great Lakes in a ballast tank from the Caspian Sea is where they're native to the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
Examples
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The sleepers pin down the rail and the ballast locks the sleepers in place.
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Do we need to ditch some ballast?
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Keep her on slow ahead, start taking on ballast.
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So the ballast is needed for ship stability.
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One of your men disengaged an emergency line on the ballast tank.
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There's a bit in the bottom, sloshing about with the ballast, but that seems normal; it's good for the boat.
Fiction book (1999) -
Seven hundred feet long, a thousand feet long, riding high on ballast or filled with grain, phosphates, maybe ore.
Fiction book (1996) -
The Prinzess was refitting, taking on water ballast, preparing to challenge the Storm Belt, and cross the Great Reach.
Fiction book (1998) -
Oh, they aren't sacks of beans, Abbu, they're gravel for ballast.
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The crew added ballast to the ship to improve its stability on the water.
Synonyms
A heavy weight put on equipment to test or balance it
Compounds
- Specialized
An electrical part that keeps the flow of electricity steady when temperature changes
How Heavy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ballast originally named the heavy stones or gravel put in a ship's bottom to make it steady and sit at the right level in the water.