[
US
/ˈbæɫəst/
]
[ UK /bˈæləst/ ]
[ UK /bˈæləst/ ]
NOUN
- any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship
- coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads
- an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps
- an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings
- a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations)
VERB
- make steady with a ballast
How To Use ballast In A Sentence
- All lamps were operated outside the sunbeds in a horizontal position over a fluorescent lamp ballast, similar to the way in which they are used in common sunbeds.
- The air bleed in the ballast tank facilitated maintenance of a constant pressure.
- The keel is a centreboard but not weighted; the ballast is in the hull itself (which sounds inefficient but actually works surprisingly well).
- As soon as she was alongside and made fast I went on board and had a good look at her interior, not forgetting to inscribe my name legibly on the most conveniently situated locker in the midshipmen's berth, after which I watched the operation of shipping and stowing her ballast. A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy
- It's bergamot, lavender, lemon and jasmine, with ballast provided by tonka bean. Times, Sunday Times
- We have used tree nails (trunnels) for frame fixing, stone ballast, and hand made rope stropped blocks.
- Yet here is where the question of balance and ballast enters the equation. Times, Sunday Times
- Items at either end of the concert provided welcome ballast. Times, Sunday Times
- There were 2632 days between the Accies last game in May 1994 at the old Douglas Park in Hamilton and yesterday's hanseling of the club's new Ballast Stadium with a match against a Sunderland XI.
- While the last 1.4-mile of track was laid in July this year, work is continuing on packing the track with ballast.