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BALLASTER

"BALLASTER" is a common misspelling or typo for: ballasted, balloter, baluster, balusters, blaster.


Specialty Definition: BALLASTER

DomainDefinition

Occupations

Grinds, repairs, and cleans molded fiberglass parts preparatory to assembly into boats, using handtools and portable power tools: Attaches abrasive disk to grinder and grinds molded parts to remove excess fiberglass and smooth edges. Checks flange of molded parts with thickness gauge to determine if more grinding is necessary. Trims excess fiberglass extending from edge of boat hull, using chisel and mallet. Inspects parts to detect defective areas and cuts out defective areas, using chisel and mallet or portable drill. Applies putty to ground-out areas to repair surfaces, using trowel. Waxes and polishes molded parts, using buffer, paste wax and cloth. May paint repaired areas, using spray gun. May install ballast forms in boat hull, using power hoist and handtools. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: BALLASTER

Non-English Usage: "BALLASTER" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (ballast).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BALLASTER

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ballaster

3

ballaster molina

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: BALLASTER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-l-l-r-s-t"

-1 letter: arbalest, laterals.

-2 letters: abaters, ablates, abreast, arables, ballast, ballers, ballets, blaster, labrets, lateral, ratable, salable, stabler, stellar.

-3 letters: abaser, abater, abates, ablate, ablest, alates, alerts, altars, alters, arable, artels, astral, balers, baller, ballet, barest, basalt, baster, blares, blears, bleats, breast, estral, labels, labret, laster, rabats, ratals, ratels, reatas, sallet, salter, slater, stable, staler.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-l-l-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: fastballer.

 

+2 letters: fastballers, portabellas.

 

+3 letters: antiliberals, bilateralism, collaborates, racquetballs, trailblazers, translatable.

 

+4 letters: bilateralisms, blepharoplast, turbellarians, ultraliberals.

 

+5 letters: alterabilities, antiliberalism, blepharoplasts, blepharoplasty, collaboratives, crystallizable, pleasurability, transplantable, untranslatable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BALLASTER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 41 4C 4C 41 53 54 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-    .-..    .-..    .-    ...    -    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000001 01001100 01001100 01000001 01010011 01010100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#76 &#76 &#65 &#83 &#84 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 004C 004C 0041 0053 0054 0045 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

363546463553543952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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