Ballast

Domain	Definitions
Building & Civil Engineering	Heavy weight placed at or near the bottom of a sailboat to provide stability. Source: European Union. (references)
	A general term which may indicate either bank gravel or unscreened crushed stone. Source: European Union. (references)
Economics	Heavy material or water placed in the lower holds of a ship or in strategically placed tanks along the sides to improve its stability. (references)
Electrical Engineering	A resistance used to stabilize the current in a circuit(as of. . . a fluorescent lamp). Source: European Union. (references)
	A device used with discharge lamps for stabilising the discharge. Source: European Union. (references)
Energy	A device that provides starting voltage andlimits the current during normal operation in electrical discharge lamps (such asfluorescent lamps). (references)
	A device used to control the voltage in a fluorescent lamp. (references)
Food & Agriculture	To take heavy items into a ship and so to dispose of them that an increase in stability results. Source: European Union. (references)
	Heavy material placed low in ships used to maintain proper stability, trim, or draught. Source: European Union. (references)
Literature	Ballast A man of no ballast. Not steady not to be depended on. Unsteady as a ship without ballast. A similar phrase is, "The man wants ballast." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Mining	A. Broken stone, gravel, water, or other heavy material used to provide weight in a ship or other machine and therefore improve its stability or control its draft. Jettisoned ballast may be found in samples of marine sediments b. Gravel, broken stone, expanded slag, or similar material used as a foundation for roads, esp. that laid in the roadbed of a railroad to provide a firm bed for the ties, distribute the load, and hold the trackin line, as well as to facilitate drainage. (references)
Public Administration	1)A device to limit, regulate or stabilize electrical current;2)Weight added to a ship, a lift or other vehicle to increase the total load for more stability. Source: European Union. (references)
Transportation	Any substance so carried in a lighter-than-air aircraft as to be dischargeable for trimming or for gaining height. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms within Context: Ballast

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Compensation	Set-off, offset; make-weight, casting-weight; counterpoise, ballast; indemnity, equivalent, quid pro,quo; bribe, hush money; amends; (atonement); counterbalance, counterclaim; cross-debt, cross-demand.
Gravity	Noun: gravity, gravitation; weight; heaviness. Adjective: specific gravity; pondorosity, pressure, load; burden, burthen; ballast, counterpoise; lump of, mass of, weight of.
Intelligence Wisdom	Prudence; vigilance; tact; foresight; sobriety, self-possession, aplomb, ballast.
Irresolution	Vacillating; Verb: unsteady; (changeable); unsteadfast, fickle, without ballast; capricious; volatile, frothy; light, lightsome, light-minded; giddy; fast and loose.
Rashness	Adjective: rash, incautious, indiscreet; imprudent, improvident, temerarious; uncalculating; heedless; careless; (neglectful); without ballast, heels over head, head over heels; giddy; (inattentive); wanton, reckless, wild, madcap; desperate, devil-may-care.
Refuge	Anchor, kedge; grapnel, grappling iron; sheet anchor, killick; mainstay; support; cheek; ballast.
Vice	Immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals; enphagy, dophagy, exophagy; want of principle, want of ballast; obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution; hardness of heart; brutality; (malevolence); corruption; (debasement); knavery; (improbity); profligacy; flagrancy, atrocity; cannibalism; lesbianism, Sadism.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Usage: Ballast

Commercial Usage: Ballast

Domain	Title
References	Ballast Nedam N.V.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) The World Market for Railway or Tramway Maintenance or Service Vehicles Such As Workshops, Cranes, Ballast Tampers, and Trackliners: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	BALLAST NEDAM NV: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference) Marine Organisms Transported In Ballast (reference) Rounding Ballast Key (reference) Stemming the Tide: Controlling Introductions of Nonindigenous Species by Ships' Ballast Water (reference) The Ballast Tube Handbook (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Ballast (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Ballast Kit 9142 & 9136 Racks (reference) Rack Ballast (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Familiar Quotations: Ballast

Non-Fiction Usage: Ballast

Usage Frequency: Ballast

Usage in Company Names: Ballast

Expression: Ballast

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ballast

Modern Translations: Ballast

Language		Translations for "ballast"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		ballast. (various references)

Albanian		balast, mend (brain, brains, esprit, headpiece, imagination, intention, memory, mind, nous, reason, savvy, wit), çakëll (chippings, metal, rubble). (various references)

Arabic		‏فرش بالحصى (gravel), ‏حصى لرصف الطرق, ‏زود بصابورة, ‏الصابورة ثقل الموازنة, ‏ثقل (avoirdupois, baggage, gravity, heaviness, importance, luggage, ponderosity, significance, weight, weightiness). (various references)

Bulgarian		уравновесеност (balance, equability, evenness, philosophy, poise, sanity, sedation, sobriety), баласт (bed, deadwood, metal, padding). (various references)

Chinese		石碴. (various references)

Czech		balast, zátìž (drain, onus, tie), přítìž (burden), štìt, štìrk (gravel, grit, metal, road metal). (various references)

Danish		ballast (ballast blocks, ballast weights, ballasting, crushed stone, pressure weights, river clamp, river dog, water ballast, weight clamp). (various references)

Dutch		ballast (ballast blocks, ballast weights, crushed stone, power supply unit, pressure weights, river clamp, river dog, water ballast, weight clamp). (various references)

Esperanto		balasto. (various references)

Faeroese		barlast, kjølfesta. (various references)

Farsi		کیسه شنی که درموقع صعودماسه , کند (Blunt, Dilatory, Dull, Haunt, Heavy, Late, Lazy, Leaden, Slack, Slow, Sluggish, Tardy, Unapt, Unready), سنگینی (Avoirdupois, Gravity, Lethargy, Weight), سنگین کردن (Encumber, Gravitate, Load, Weight), سنگ وشن درته کشتی یابالون ریختن , شن وخرده سنگی که درراه اهن بکارمیرود, بالاست . (various references)

Finnish		painolasti (burden). (various references)

French		lest (ballast blocks, ballast weights), ballast (water ballast), lester (ballasted), ballaster. (various references)

Frisian		ballêst. (various references)

German		ballast (ballast , ballast blocks, ballast weights, ballasting, bulk, bulking agent, burden, control gear, encumbrance, incombustible matter, noise, pressure weights, sinker, water ballast, weight ), schotter* (broken stone, crushed stone, gravel, macadam, road metal, rubble), mit ballast beladen (ballasted). (various references)

Greek		έρμα (ballast , ballast blocks, ballast weights, ballasting, bulk, bulking agent, control gear, crushed stone, pressure weights, river clamp, river dog, sinker, weight , weight clamp), σαβούρα* (ballast , ballast blocks, ballast weights, junk, pressure weights, sinker, weight ), ερματισμός* (ballast weights, ballasting, wheel weight), ερματίζω. (various references)

Hebrew		חומר אזון, � טל (brunt, burden, encumbrance, load, weight). (various references)

Hungarian		ballaszt, nehezék (balance, bob, counterweight, dead weight, plummet, weight), fenéksúly, vasúti kavicságy, teher (burden, burthen, cargo, charge, drag, encumbrance, fardel, freight, imposition, lading, liabilities, liability, load, loading, mortgage, onus, passive debts), kavicságy (ballast of track, bed), holtsúly (dead load, dead weight). (various references)

Indonesian		pemberat. (various references)

Italian		zavorra (ballast blocks, ballast weights, ballasting, bulk, bulking agent, pressure weights, river clamp, river dog, sinker, water ballast, weight, weight clamp, wheel weight), zavorrare. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		荷足 (lading, sale), � �利 (gravel, pebbles), 底荷 , バベルの�" (balalaika, balance, balance of power, balance sheet, balcony, ballade, balloon, Baltic, balun, barber's clippers, Barcelona, baritone, barium, barracks, barreled wine, barricade, barrier, Barriquand et Marre, bawm bawm, Brahman, bulk carrier, bulk line, bulk storage, bulky, bulky sweater, impediment removal, Tower of Babel, value, value analysis, value engineering, variable condensor, variant, variation, variety, variety show, variety store, varistor, vulcanized fiber, vulcanized rubber). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		バラスト , バラス , そ�"に, にあし (lading, sale), じゃり (gravel, pebbles). (various references)

Korean		밸러스트. (various references)

Manx		cur ballast sheese, cur ballast ayn, ballast. (various references)

Papiamen		balaster. (various references)

Pig Latin		allastbay.(various references)

Portuguese		lastro (ballast , ballast blocks, ballast weights, coverage, pressure weights, sinker, sounding-weight, torpedo sinker, weight ), balastro* (control gear, crushed stone), lastrar. (various references)

Romanian		balast (metal), savurã, echilibra (balance, cancel out, compensate, counterbalance, countervail, equilibrate, equipoise, offset, poise), da stabilitate, încãrca cu balast. (various references)

Russian		балласт (metal). (various references)

Scottish		balaiste. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		balast, teret (burden, cargo, drag, encumbrance, freight, heft, imposition, load, onus, tax, weight). (various references)

Spanish		lastre (ballast , ballast blocks, ballast weights, ballasting, liability, light, plummet, pressure weights, sinker, water ballast, weight , wheel weight), lastrar, balasto* (crushed stone, gravel, pebbles, shingle). (various references)

Swedish		barlast, ballast (dead weight). (various references)

Turkish		balast, safra koymak, safra (bile, choler, gall), kararlılık (decision, decisiveness, determination, doggedness, equipoise, fixity, flatness, immovability, inflexibility, insistence, resoluteness, resolution, singleness, singleness of purpose, stability, stableness, steadiness, stoutness, strenght of purpose), istikrar sağlamak, istikrar (constancy, easiness, permanence, permanency, stability, stableness, steadiness, steady, uniformity), denge sağlamak, çakıl döşemek (gravel), çakıl (gravel, hard core, pebble, rubble, shingle). (various references)

Ukranian		стійкість (fastness, firmness, fortitude, perseverance, rigidity, stability), стабілізувати (stabilize), урівноважувати (compensate, counterbalance, counterpoise, equilibrate, equipoise, neutralize, poise), урівноваженість (balance, egality, equation, evenness, poise, tranquility, tranquillity), щебінь (metal, scree), гравій (gravel, grit, sand, wash), баластувати, баласт. (various references)

Vietnamese		bì, sự d� y dạn, sự chắc chắn (assurance, assuredness, certitude). (various references)

Welsh		balast. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Ancestral Language Translations: Ballast

Derivations & Misspellings: Ballast

Rhyming with "Ballast"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ballast" (pronounced ba"lust)
5	-a" l u s t	calloused.
4	-l u s t	ablest, agriculturalist, analyst, bicyclist, capitalist, catalyst, cellist, colonialist, conversationalist, coolest, cruelest, cyclist, dullest, editorialist, environmentalist, federalist, finalist, formalist, fullest, fundamentalist, generalist, gentlest, herbalist, humblest, idealist, imperialist, individualist, industrialist, institutionalist, instrumentalist, internationalist, journalist, littlest, loyalist, materialist, medalist, mercantilist, monopolist, motorcyclist, nationalist, naturalist, neutralist, noblest, novelist, palest, panelist, photojournalist, populist, psychoanalyst, semifinalist, simplest, smallest, socialist, specialist, spiritualist, stablest, survivalist, tallest, televangelist, traditionalist, ultranationalist, violist, vocalist.
3	-u s t	abolitionist, abortionist, absolutist, accompanist, activist, agonist, agronomist, alarmist, alchemist, allergist, amethyst, amorist, anarchist, anatomist, anesthesiologist, anesthetist, angriest, animist, antagonist, anthropologist, anticommunist, apologist, apprenticed, aquarist, archaeologist, archivist, arsonist, artist, atheist, August, balloonist, barest, behaviorist, biased, biggest, biochemist, biologist, bitterest, blackest, bleakest, bloodiest, bluest, bluntest, boldest, botanist, bravest, breakfast, briefest, brightest, broadest, busiest, buttressed, canoeist, canvassed, cardiologist, caricaturist, cartoonist, chauvinist, cheapest, choicest, clarinetist, classicist, cleanest, closest, coldest, colonist, columnist, communist, conservationist, contortionist, cornettist, craziest, creamiest, criminologist, cultist, darkest, deadliest, dearest, deepest, deforest, deist, densest, dentist, dermatologist, determinist, direst, dirtiest, dishonest, disinterest, driest, druggist, dumbest, earliest, earnest, easiest, ecologist, economist, eldest, elitist, embarrassed, empiricist, encompassed, encyclopedist, endocrinologist, entomologist, epidemiologist, ethicist, ethnomusicologist, exhibitionist, exorcist, expressionist, extremist, faintest, fairest, fanciest, farthest, fascist, fastest, fattest, feminist, fetishist, fewest, fiercest, finest, firmest, fittest, flimsiest, florist, focused, focussed, foggiest, fondest, forest, freest, freshest, friendliest, funnest, funniest, furthest, geneticist, geologist, gerontologist, goldest, grandest, gravest, grayest, greatest, greediest, greenest, grimaced, grimmest, grooviest, guitarist, gymnast, gynecologist, happiest, hardest, harnessed, harshest, harvest, healthiest, heaviest, heftiest, highest, hippest, hobbyist, holiest, honest, hottest, hugest, humorist, hygienist, ideologist, illusionist, immunologist, impressionist, interest, internist, interventionist, isolationist, jaundiced, juiciest, junkiest, keenest, kindest, kremlinologist, largest, latest, laziest, leanest, leftist, librettist, lightest, likeliest, linguist, liveliest, lobbyist, locust, longest, loudest, lowest, luckiest, lyricist, machinist, manicurist, mannerist, masochist, meanest, merest, meteorologist, methodist, microbiologist, mightiest, mildest, mineralogist, misogynist, modernist, modest, motorist, musicologist, narrowest, nastiest, nearest, neatest, neediest, neurologist, neuroscientist, newest, noisiest, noncommunist, nonconformist, noninterest, noticed, nutritionist, oboist, obstructionist, oddest, oldest, oncologist, ophthalmologist, opportunist, organist, orthodontist, orthopedist, pacifist, paleontologist, pathologist, pessimist, pharmacist, philanthropist, physiologist, pianist, polemicist, poorest, prefaced, prejudiced, premised, preservationist, prettiest, priciest, promised, propagandist, protagonist, protectionist, proudest, psychiatrist, psychologist, psychotherapist, purchased, purest, quickest, quietest, quietist, racist, radiologist, rainforest, rainiest, rapist, rarest, receptionist, reddest, refocused, reforest, remotest, repurchased, reservationist, reservist, resurfaced, revolutionist, rheumatologist, richest, rightist, riskiest, ritziest, roughest, rudest, saddest, sadist, safest, satirist, savviest, scariest, scientist, secessionist, secularist, segregationist, seismologist, separatist, serologist, serviced, severest, sexiest, shakiest, sharpest, shortest, showiest, shrewdest, sickest, silliest, skimpiest, skinniest, sleekest, slickest, slightest, slimmest, sloppiest, slowest, smartest, smoggiest, smoothest, sociologist, softest, soonest, soundest, staunchest, steepest, sternest, stickiest, stiffest, stormiest, strangest, strategist, strictest, strongest, stupidest, supremacist, surest, surfaced, sweetest, swiftest, tannest, technologist, tempest, terraced, theorist, therapist, thickest, thinnest, thorniest, tightest, tiniest, toniest, toughest, tourist, toxicologist, trendiest, trickiest, truest, ugliest, unbiased, unfocused, unionist, unkindest, unnoticed, urologist, violinist, virologist, warmest, weakest, wealthiest, weirdest, wettest, whitest, widest, wildest, wisest, witnessed, worthiest, yellowest, youngest, zaniest, zoologist.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Anagrams: Ballast

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-l-l-s-t"
	-1 letter: basalt, tablas.
	-2 letters: albas, atlas, baals, balas, balls, balsa, basal, blast, blats, salal, stall, tabla, talas.
	-3 letters: aals, abas, alas, alba, albs, alls, alts, baal, baas, ball, bals, bast, bats, blat, labs, last, lats, sall, salt, slab, slat, stab, tabs, tala, tall.
	-4 letters: aal, aas, aba, abs, ala, alb, all, als, alt, baa, bal, bas, bat, lab, las, lat, sab, sal, sat, tab, tas.
	-5 letters: aa, ab, al, as, at, ba, la, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-l-l-s-t"
	+1 letter: ballasts, ballista, blastula, fastball.
	+2 letters: balladist, ballasted, ballistae, blastemal, blastulae, blastulas, fastballs, meatballs, stealable, trapballs.
	+3 letters: ameloblast, bagatelles, balladists, ballasting, basketball, blacktails, fastballer, isolatable, salability, tablelands, trackballs.
	+4 letters: ameloblasts, baptismally, basipetally, basketballs, fastballers, inflatables, megaloblast, melanoblast, portabellas, syllabicate, unballasted.
	+5 letters: antiliberals, balletomanes, bilateralism, blastulation, collaborates, glioblastoma, labiodentals, lactalbumins, megaloblasts, melanoblasts, racquetballs, salabilities, syllabicated, syllabicates, trailblazers, translatable.
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Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Bud, if you drop all your ballast you can still make it!!!.. (The Abyss; writing credit: James Cameron)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Minna Antrim	Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.
William Penn	Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
	Have a care where there is more sail than ballast.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Commercial facilities will require high efficiency lighting fixtures, reflectors, electronic dimmable ballast, and �smart' controls. (references)
		Local competition is limited to control components such as electronic ballast which are manufactured and imported from mainland China. (references)
Economic History	Philippines	Philippine workers overseas continue to send back remittances measured in the billions of dollars, an important ballast for an economy rocked by recent international and domestic developments. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	123	28,925

Country	Name
Netherlands	Ballast Nedam N.V.
	(more examples...)

Expressions using "ballast": ballast * ♦ ballast bed ♦ ballast concrete ♦ ballast engine ♦ ballast resistor ♦ be in ballast ♦ In ballast trim ♦ segregated ballast ♦ segregated ballast oil tanker ♦ segregated ballast tank ♦ shifting ballast ♦ ship in ballast ♦ To freshen ballast ♦ water ballast. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "ballast": ballast-dumping, ballast-heaving.
	Ending with "ballast": b-ballast.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression	Frequency per Day
ballast	252
advance ballast	104
electronic ballast	89
ballast nedam	54
fluorescent ballast	42
universal ballast	39
magnetic ballast	24
hid ballast	19
metal halide ballast	18
lighting ballast	18
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Period	Translations
Middle English	1100-1500	bar. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ballast": ballasted, ballasting, ballasts. (additional references)
	Words containing "ballast": unballasted. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ballast" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alast, Balart, balast, Balasz, Balbastre, Balglass, balist, ballest, ballist, Balmat, Baltsa, Balulise, belost, Bjallas, callsat. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Ballast

Definitions: Ballast

Ballast

Noun

Verb

Specialty Definitions: Ballast

Synonyms within Context: Ballast

Compensation

Gravity

Intelligence Wisdom

Irresolution

Rashness

Refuge

Vice

Crosswords: Ballast

Modern Usage: Ballast

Screenplays

Commercial Usage: Ballast

References

Books

Music

High Tech

Familiar Quotations: Ballast

Minna Antrim

William Penn

Non-Fiction Usage: Ballast

Usage Frequency: Ballast

Usage in Company Names: Ballast

Ballast Nedam N.V.

Expression: Ballast

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ballast

ballast

advance ballast

electronic ballast

ballast nedam

fluorescent ballast

universal ballast

magnetic ballast

hid ballast

metal halide ballast

lighting ballast

Modern Translations: Ballast

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Ancestral Language Translations: Ballast