balance, clear the decks, counterweight, firm up, immobilize, nail down, quid pro quo, shift ballast, stabilize, transfix, weigh down
Definitionn. any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship
Last update: June 29, 2015
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If there were no ballast, the ship would not be low enough in the water, and would shift its position at the slightest change in its conditions. [noun]
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They are like the ballast with which every ship is always loaded, at once to keep it upright and enable it to sail properly. [noun]
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Ballasts are used to make foundations for railways. [noun]
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The lamps with an integral ballast are usually the best option for most domestic applications. [noun]
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The ballast tank is adjacent to the fuel oil bunker tank. [noun]
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"Well," said Bothwell, "in that case these yellow rascals must serve to ballast my purse a little longer." [noun]
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The ballast of that grave intellect was flung overboard so that the ship of fools might drift the faster. [noun]
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He put it in his flannel shirt by way of ballast, and he sticks to it up to the present moment. [noun]
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She was light in the water, and bore little except ballast. [noun]
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This ballast, which strikes one at first as superfluous and even as hindering the progress of the vessel, is really indispensable to its good navigation. [noun]
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The ship's ballast was gone, by the bursting of the tanks; she was top-heavy and under manned. [noun]
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