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Meanings of ballast in English
Spanish
estabilizador A resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations)
Usage of ballast in English
1
A minute later, ballast men slide into view in the secondary shaft.
2
The hatch closed, and I heard water hissing in the ballast tanks.
3
Partridge rubbed his chin and said, 'Well, she's not in ballast, sir.
4
The site contains evidence of the galleon's original structure, ballast and endowment.
5
The turtles, however, were stowed in the hold, and served as ballast.
6
This process continues until the aeronaut has neither ballast nor gas left.
7
The steel and ties are all right, but the ballast is rotten.
8
Just a little ballast to keep them from capsizing in a gale.
9
In other words, I was to be nothing but so much ballast.
10
They take up too much space. He spoke as of redundant ballast.
11
He then quickly dumped overboard half the contents of a ballast bag.
12
Why don't you cast off all that ballast, too, and start anew?
13
Some of the ships' companies were procuring ballast, others getting in water.
14
He felt along the gunwale to the ropes of the ballast bags.
15
A.M., employ'd getting on board stone ballast and Airing the spare Sails.
16
All sail and no ballast, though I grant he's brave and daring.
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Ballast across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common