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.
He and Read provide real ballast to a line-up that has wobbled a bit in the past. Times, Sunday Times
Start trotting out the same lines, the same solutions and, rather than tapping into a source of riches, you're carrying ballast about with you and you'll soon be buried beneath it.
As well, Mr. MacAdam confirms that he advised the plaintiffs to engage a roofing consultant to give an opinion on the adequacy of the roof flashings and the roofing ballast.
The cedar was all cut down (so now other species, many of them weeds, grow up) and shipped to Britain as the ballast in ships.
Alien species such as the Mediterranean blue mussel have been introduced through ballast water, bilge water and mariculture operations. Benguela Current large marine ecosystem
Nevertheless, there was great satisfaction in cherishing the little waif, for she learned more than she could teach and felt a sense of responsibility which was excellent ballast for her enthusiastic nature. Rose in Bloom
I bought nine fluorescent light fixtures-bulbs, ballast, and wire.
So reducing the amount and hence weight of the water ballast would compromise the self-righting capability of the boat. Rowing the ATLANTIC
Moments later, a high-pressure air line connecting to main ballast tanks allowing the submarine to control its depth bursts its seal in the seventh compartment.
Ballast water carried by ocean-going vessels is a major factor in the introduction of non-native organisms to marine eco-systems.
Some 1400 kilometres of earthworks need to be completed before it can take the ballast, sleepers and rails.
The bed of the railway track is mainly limestone ballast, with ash on the outer margins.
The rock here is all red granite, and some of it disintegrated, which is used for ballast. Canada and the States
He and Read provide real ballast to a line-up that has wobbled a bit in the past. Times, Sunday Times
Because the foils are fine they react very well indeed - the positive side of having the ballast in the hull.
Then as the electric doors swished open and three police officers jumped out on to the ballast, the awful realisation dawned.
In the next decade, the Energy Commission followed with efficiency standards for furnaces, dryers, swimming-pool heaters, household cooking appliances, heat pumps, showerheads, and fluorescent-lamp ballasts, among other products. The California Experiment
No, I have brought nothing but ballast back -- made a delicious voyage, Setter; and might have rode at anchor in the port till this time, but the enemy surprised us -- I would unrig. The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2]
To qualify for the $10m Ansari X-Prize, the craft must make two trips to an altitude of 100 km, carrying ballast equivalent to two passengers.
I noted in an update that "ballast" also means roughage -- a particularly apt definition for my initial, ironical use because roughage is a great ingredient for bullshit. Is That Legal?: "Blow All Ballast Tanks . . . Dive, Dive"
With high-intensity-discharge lamps, electronic ballasts are just becoming common.
In the past, dimming fluorescent ballasts were expensive and bulky, and required complex dimming circuits.
Even if it had been told that Soviet Railways ballasted thousands of miles of track with asbestos waste it would not have cared.
He had ordered Simpson to rerig Ranger to make her less crank by cutting down the size of the masts and spars and adding more ballast into the hold. John Paul Jones
Their only interest in the brownstone was probably as occasional ballast for their canoes.
A certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times.A ship without a ballast is unstable and will not go straight.
A Spanish polacre in ballast came out of Tripoli, with an ambassador of the Grand Seignor on board, who had been sent from The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
Some dimmable or multilevel electronic ballasts may be activated by PLC signals to cut lighting levels to minimally acceptable levels.
It was built from a combination of heavyweight concrete and steel ballast to develop the required weight.
Dutch brick went round the world as ballast in trading ships, confounding its origins as a local, geologically dependent material.
Each time a transatlantic liner crosses the globe, for example, it uses sea water as a ballast.
Most dimming electronic ballasts can reduce light output to as little as 20 percent of maximum.
Often it arrived in the form of ballast in the bellies of ships, which ensured that everything apart from the bilge water could be traded to maximise the trip.
Items at either end of the concert provided welcome ballast. Times, Sunday Times
Time consumed by the vessel in moving from loading or discharge port anchorage to her loading or discharge berth, discharging ballast water or slops, will not count as used laytime.
It has time, and no shortage of intellectual ballast, but it is in trouble. Times, Sunday Times
They are also used, to a more limited extent, for railway ballast.
First, the boats were designed to right themselves if they capsized, but only if correctly ballasted. Rowing the ATLANTIC
A viewing platform has been erected for visitors in the hold, which has been partially filled with shingle ballast and barrels to provide a sense of what it would have been like in Nelson's time.
With cameras clicking, Wills rappelled down the face of a two-hundred-foot cliff while attempting to steady a stretcher filled with ballast to simulate a human body. William and Kate
Write half a dozen folios full of other people's ideas (as all folios are pretty sure to be), and you serve as ballast to the lower shelves of a library, about as like to be disturbed as the kentledge in the hold of a ship. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
A dash of the same brine will help keep the ballast right, then a skysail-yard breakfast must be carefully stowed away, in order to give a firmness to the timbers, and on the strength of these two blocks for shoring up the hull, you must begin little by little, and keep on brightening up until you have got the craft all right again. An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
Santa Rosa - The Rich Mountain - was first mined for a colonial interest in its silver - most of which ballasted galleons sailed back to Spain.
These penguins have been caught in smaller, unreported “mystery” spills, or have swum through the oil-contaminated ballast and bilgewater illegally dumped into the ocean by passing ships. The Great Penguin Rescue
A certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times.A ship without a ballast is unstable and will not go straight.
The bilges are firm and ballast is low which makes for a stiff boat that stands up well to a blow.
Oceangoing freighters carrying ballast water from other parts of the world are thought to be responsible for introducing hundreds of non-native animals and plants into U.S. waters.
If oil had leaked into the ballast water, that would have been detected at Singapore / Malaysia.
But lying on the ballast, where the ship's ammunition store was located, were quantities of stone, lead, and iron shot.
As if that were not enough, a second trebuchet was built to a French design using a huge swinging ballast-filled basket as a counterweight.
These they quickly appropriated for the railway line's ballast.
The systems are either fully adhered, mechanically attached, or loose-laid and ballasted.
These ranged from missing safety clips that hold the rail in place, missing bolts, cracked sleepers and eroded ballast as well as worn out rails.
Using dimmable ballasts that listen for control signals coming through existing power wiring, light levels are controlled by a power-line-carrier system.
Much of the formation which supports the track is waterlogged and ballast pumps down into the sand below.
When this happens, ETFs can provide some short-term ballast for rebalancing, such as moving cash or selling one investment to move back toward another. Buying ETFs Like a Pro
Also, crash testing with ballasted dummies to represent obese and morbidly obese occupants may lead to refined safety systems for this growing segment of the population. Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Weighing in on In-Car Traffic Injuries
The shells could have been brought back as ballast on ships or collected by sailors or travelers for their wives, daughters, or friends.
The reactions and thrust of each deck is taken on elastomeric bearings and by ballast walls.
The air bleed in the ballast tank facilitated maintenance of a constant pressure.
Flooding of the docking area is achieved by ballasting the stern of the ship, allowing the landing craft to float.
In experiment No. 2, under the same conditions, a grout made of 1 part lime, 1 part surki (puzzulana or trass) and 1 part sand, was found to have spread over the entire bottom, 10 ft. square, rising 5 ins. on the sides, and making the concreted mass about 3½ ft. square at the top; 25 cu.ft. of the dry materials concreted 100 cu.ft. of ballast. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs
Because the island was the final landfall before passage to America, ships would load up on Madeira's wines, both as a product to sell and to use as ballast.
The band could use some stinging ballast to balance their sugary tendencies.
A ship in ballast has high sides, presenting more surface to the tearing wind than the biggest square-rigger. Times, Sunday Times
Some bundles of cardboard are bound in a way that airlines can use them as ballast, an extra weight required when the plane doesn't have enough cargo or passengers.
Ten miles are being reballasted, 30 switches and crossings renewed, and the track layout at Longport, near Stoke, remodelled.
It is here that the film takes on its emotional ballast. Times, Sunday Times
The deposits here are assorted into several grades of gravel for building, paving, and ballast purposes.
Using ballasted racking allows the solar units to rest on the ground "without having to do in-depth studies, which are very expensive and the outcomes are unknown. If You Have Lemons...
Add to this the numerous interviews, which would provide the colour and emotional ballast, and the schedule was a marathon designed to test your patience. Times, Sunday Times
After ballasting his ship with silver from the rich Potosi mines, and rifling even the churches, he hastened onward in pursuit of a richly laden galleon nicknamed _Cacafuego_ -- a name discreetly translated _Spitfire_, but which, to repeat a joke that greatly amused Drake's men at the time, it was proposed to change to _Spitsilver_, for when overtaken and captured the vessel yielded 26 tons of silver, 13 chests of pieces of eight, and gold and jewels sufficient to swell the booty to half a million pounds sterling. A History of Sea Power
Truth be told, I could make a better public case for Ayers’s involvement by a discussion of the word ballast than I could by sharing these results. Deconstructing Obama
This is a big no-no, since the chopped wave put out by a dimmer can cause a fluorescent ballast to emit big flyback voltages and spikes, which then travel through a building's wiring, causing other mischief.
The weight of public opinion provides ballast in an atmosphere of social equality. Democracy and its Critics - Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century
For more information on marine invasions, ballast water, marine toxins, harmful algal blooms and diarrhetic shellfish poisoning, see Cawthron research programs. New Zealand Shelf large marine ecosystem
These boats added wings and a trapeze, so crews could lean out over the water, providing ballast with their own bodies.
The upper part of the netting was weighted with kentledge, the pigs of iron used for ballast; so that, should the hardy assailants succeed in coming alongside and scaling the side, a few blows of an axe would let fall the heavily weighted nettings, sweeping the boarders into the sea, and covering boats and men with an impenetrable mesh, under which they would be at the mercy of the sailors on the frigate's decks. The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)
The Eide Transporter was ballasted down with water until her transport deck was below water.
An ex-con takes a job as a ballast driver and encounters a world of dangerous conditions, murderous rivalry and corruption.
All were intended for working passenger trains, but a lot of work was done (by those which could be persuaded to work) on construction and ballasting the new track.
New generations of electronic ballasts have overcome many of the problems associated with early designs.
When he needed nine tons of lead for the ship's ballast, he called foundries in Poland asking for donations until one, the White Eagle Ironworks, agreed. NYT > Home Page
This characteristic accentuates the differences between aluminum and copper when they are used as insulated magnet wire in a ballast coil.
In mellitids, the intestine is separated from the rest of the coelom by a well-defined wall of the peripheral ballast system.
A certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times.A ship without a ballast is unstable and will not go straight.
She is ballasted with utilities; not altogether with unusable pig-lead and kentledge. Moby Dick; or the Whale
Bags filled with old sand provide ballast to ensure that it can resist high winds. Times, Sunday Times
The recent development of the electronic ballast switches on a new era in lighting technology.
The increased sail area and the raised center of effort required nearly 1,000 more pounds of ballast.
There are those who knew this so strongly it ballasted their bones, such as Martin Luther King, Gandhi, countless lesser-known moral leaders. Making Real Peace with the Spirit of John F. Kennedy
Elsewhere, some are just starting to replace T12s with T8s and electronic ballasts.
Add to this the numerous interviews, which would provide the colour and emotional ballast, and the schedule was a marathon designed to test your patience. Times, Sunday Times
A certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times.A ship without a ballast is unstable and will not go straight.
A certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times.A ship without a ballast is unstable and will not go straight.
So when they offer up their memories of early adolescence, they give the show emotional ballast. Times, Sunday Times
They'll never get that ballast of unearned privilege into space.
Amid cheers that rent the welkin, responded to by answering cheers from a big muster of henchmen on the distant Cambrian and Caledonian hills, the mastodontic pleasureship slowly moved away saluted by a final floral tribute from the representatives of the fair sex who were present in large numbers while, as it proceeded down the river, escorted by a flotilla of barges, the flags of the Ballast office and Custom House were dipped in salute as were also those of the electrical power station at the Ulysses
I think it'd be a much more traumatic way to go if your head collided with the ballast on the tracks.
The keel is a centreboard but not weighted; the ballast is in the hull itself (which sounds inefficient but actually works surprisingly well).
Specification: Good photochromism, needless to use additional ballast and used as a substitute for incandescent bulb.
Many loads are highly inductive, such a lightly loaded motors and illumination transformers and ballasts.
Not enough stowage in the hold of a coach, and badly weighted ballast for the land-straights in these parts. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
A certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times.A ship without a ballast is unstable and will not go straight.
When replacing standard fluorescents with efficient T8 lamps, it is necessary to replace the existing ballasts with electronics ballasts.
Corrective action will be taken on all the leaking light ballasts. PCB Leaks Found in 3 More Schools
Yet here is where the question of balance and ballast enters the equation. Times, Sunday Times
Here Spoornet has raised the ground level on the outside of the up and down main line as well as in between the two main lines with cement sleepers and ballast.
It was built from a combination of heavyweight concrete and steel ballast to develop the required weight.
All lights in the Middle School were retrofitted with motion sensors and dimmable ballasts. Veronique Pittman: Students Cut Energy Use By Up to 17%
Another option was to replace the T - 12 lamps and magnetic ballasts with T - 8 lamps and electronic ballasts.
A certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times.A ship without a ballast is unstable and will not go straight.
The keel is a centreboard but not weighted; the ballast is in the hull itself (which sounds inefficient but actually works surprisingly well).
To answer your question, I think that we should all be very grateful for the modern technology of lead ballast.
First, the experimenters tested three unpowered dummy missiles with ballast to simulate the N-69.
This article introduces the gas discharge lamps, such as fluorescence lamp, high pressure sodium lamp and metal halide lamp, and their basic requirements to the electronic ballast.
Yet when he spoke of himself, his gaze frequently wandered, as though in search of visual ballast.
The firm, from Hook in Hampshire, was hired by Balfour Beatty to remove the JCB and ballast after they had been used for railway maintenance work near Elm Road.
Older fluorescent lights contain devices called ballasts that were once made from PCBs, and those ballasts can leak over time. Lawsuit Blasts City PCB Plan
Some 97,000 tonnes of stone were transported in and 10,000 tonnes of ballast laid along the track bed.
Lack of proper ballast made the ship unmanageable and he dropped her port bow anchor and radioed for help.
It has time, and no shortage of intellectual ballast, but it is in trouble. Times, Sunday Times
These shallow-keeled open boats have no decking and no external ballast on the hull.
Pockets of oil inside the earth acting as ballast, preventing the globe from wobbling out of control and altering the degree oflocation andclimate of every continent on the sphere. Is Oil Blood Or Is It Just Crap?
The scheme involves the lifting of the jointed track and removal of the ballast down to the stone arches of the viaduct, which will then be covered with a waterproofing membrane.
Yet when he spoke of himself, his gaze frequently wandered, as though in search of visual ballast.
The ballast, concrete cement, was stanchioned down securely. Sailing Alone Around the World
It's an important ballast in the process of policy formation, even if can be annoying for the politicals.
A certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times.A ship without a ballast is unstable and will not go straight.
Yellow ballast brick, carried in ships from Europe, was used in construction along with locally quarried stone and coral.
Use 4-foot fluorescent fixtures with reflective backing and electronic ballasts for your workroom, garage, and laundry areas.
Obama's dramatic cowardice on health care tells me a lot about his intentions. signing statement restraint is just one more piece of ballast he's jettisoning off the hope boat. still, I'd choose him over McCain't. Another Obama letdown (Jack Bog's Blog)
The officials of the Northern Railway fear damage from the overflow of the river Oise, and the main line of the Western Railway, on which the city now has to depend largely for its food supply, is also threatened at several points, but particularly at Les Mureaux, where the line has been hastily protected by wooden barricades to prevent the waters of the Seine from washing away the ballaster. NYT > Home Page
It's almost twice as heavy as lead, so it's great for armour plating, radiation shielding, ballast in missiles and aircraft counterweights.
Items at either end of the concert provided welcome ballast. Times, Sunday Times
A certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times.A ship without a ballast is unstable and will not go straight.
Although there is active corrosion and some wastage of the structure in the topside ballast tanks this is relatively minor, the fitting of anodes should arrest the corrosion and the wastage noted can be rectified at no great cost.
Fortunately, the discussion of ballast, glider, and pilot weight, including wing span, has happened before.
The recent development of the electronic ballast switches on a new era in lighting technology.
This will not require wiring as the connections come prewired to the ballast.
Something of this sort seemed to be indispensable, in order, amid so vast a fluctuation of passions and opinions, to concenter my thoughts; to ballast my conduct; to preserve me from being blown about by every wind of fashionable doctrine. I. On Conciliation with America
A certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times.A ship without a ballast is unstable and will not go straight.
I longed to tell her that dreams can lose their buoyancy, like a gas balloon weighted with too much ballast, sandbagged by too many years.
‘We supply Network Rail with products for track ballast, but they've now started to buy from a Norwegian supplier,’ he said.
Either he carries more ballast, or his glider/harness has less drag than the ATOS C with me or Johann on it.
They also operate 75% more quietly than do conventional electromagnetic ballasts, eliminating the familiar flicker and hum of older fluorescent lights.
Along with the EMCS, the renovation introduced energy-efficient task lighting and electronic ballasts for all workstation lighting.
Yet when he spoke of himself, his gaze frequently wandered, as though in search of visual ballast.
Some 6,400 yards of new rail, 12,200 steel sleepers and 31,000 tonnes of ballast were used and brought in by train rather than by road.
Scientists this week finished removing sediment from the ballast tanks of the sub after recovering a coil of waterlogged rope.
He was appointed to the independent body given the task of providing scientific ballast to the formation of government policy. Times, Sunday Times
Beginning on July 1, 1999, ships entering American ports from foreign waters will have to report whether they have exchanged ballast offshore.
He and Read provide real ballast to a line-up that has wobbled a bit in the past. Times, Sunday Times
It seems like smaller gliders would be preferable and then I wouldn't have to carry the ballast.
Another three months passed, then the Victualling Board asked for cinder ashes from the smitheries in the dockyards at Deptford and Woolwich to mix with ground lime and ballast for repair work, but none of this seems to have worked, as in March 1813 the Victualling Board asked for the Navy Board's surveyor of buildings to make an inspection and give his opinion on the necessary repairs. Archive 2008-10-01
The keel is a centreboard but not weighted; the ballast is in the hull itself (which sounds inefficient but actually works surprisingly well).
Each room is also equipped with T - 8 lamps, electronic ballasts and occupancy sensors.
Some bundles of cardboard are bound in a way that airlines can use them as ballast, an extra weight required when the plane doesn't have enough cargo or passengers.
Actually, in one definition, ballast is material which will: Is That Legal?: "Blow All Ballast Tanks . . . Dive, Dive"
A certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times.A ship without a ballast is unstable and will not go straight.
Newer ones last longer, are dimmable, and have a warmer-toned light, choose one that uses an electronic ballast: It won't have the inherent hum of the old magnetic ballasts.
Residual water left in poorly-maintained ballast tanks during hot, humid conditions could well have either started the corrosion process or made already corroded metal plates even worse.
I was a sinking ship, the ballast gone. Times, Sunday Times
John Glenn, D-Ohio, intends to introduce legislation that would prohibit ships from discharging organism-laced ballast water in estuaries.
The police also found a fluorescent light, a grow lamp, ballast, and thermometer.
Sediments that settle out of ballast water also stay behind.
Ballast and a lump of concrete had been placed on the line and the youngsters had been seen throwing stones while running on the tracks and interfering with signalling equipment.
I really need to test glide back at Quest with varying amounts of ballast to see how it flies with more then my light wing loading.
In addition, the submarine ran its diesel engines, channeling the exhaust into the forward ballast tanks in an effort to force out more of the water and make the ship lighter.
With no ballast this glider is a handful even in Florida air.
There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business. James Russell Lowell
It is unlikely that he would have had room for boxwood from South America, even as ballast, but he might well have bought walrus ivory to sell to rulemakers.
It is obvious that the ‘cancer’ shields were actually invented to add weight to phones in order that they would be more effective when used as ballast in hot air balloons.
First, he and his staff replaced 90 percent of older, inefficient lights with electronic ballasts and T8 lamps.
The rail, the fastening, the sleeper and ballast have to spread the 100-tonne weight of a heavy locomotive throughout the system.
The area below the curve with respect to the cross section gives an idea of the missing ballast.
A certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times.A ship without a ballast is unstable and will not go straight.
Again I exclude all those compromises between abstract and experimental sciences which supply the whole ballast of the semi-sciences called juridical, political, and historical. A Confession
Marine bio-invasions are caused by the transfer of alien plants and animals in ships' ballast tanks.
Fassel has good reason not to weigh his ship down with excess ballast.
The building core wall on the left, typically a dark area, is brightened by copper lighting fixtures that utilize compact fluorescents with electronic ballasts and other low-energy equipment.
Perhaps a few panicles slipped in with mud that was caked on cargo or in piles of discarded ballast.
It is here that the film takes on its emotional ballast. Times, Sunday Times
The proposals include getting ships to discharge their ballast in open water - or possibly treat the water to kill off unwanted organisms.
The railway has generally scoured Europe for suitable rolling stock and has also acquired some ballast wagons from Romania.
Assemblymember Rosenthal has introduced legislation to expedite the City's response and replace 100% of all toxic light ballasts in school buildings constructed or substantially renovated between 1950 and 1978 over the course of three to five years. Rep. Jerrold Nadler: The City of New York Must Remediate PCBs Now, Not in 10 Years
Her twin masts come from the forests of Austria and she is ballasted with lead rather than the great stones used by the Spaniards in their galleons.
This paper discusses the effect of heat on the survival of non indigenous organisms in ballast water.
Devices called ballasts in aging fluorescent light fixtures have been found to leak PCBs. PCBs Found in Fort Greene School
Supplies such as ballast, rails and sleepers are moved to the site by train.

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