Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: ballast
IPA transcription: [b'æləst]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: ballast
    Meaning: any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: ballast
    Meaning: make steady with a ballast
Usage examples
  • "The wind's gusty and we've got hardly any ballast."
  • "I gave you leave to replace the ballast; that was all!"
  • My implements were all safe, and, fortunately, I had lost neither ballast nor provisions.
  • Meanwhile the ballast team has been going on merrily, and to-night Pennell must have some 26 tons on board.
  • But the men unloaded the canoes and--'a desperate undertaking'--ran them down the rapids with light ballast.
  • Well, then, in throwing out this overplus of ballast at a given moment, I am certain to rise with great rapidity."
  • Joe will see to throwing out the ballast, and Dick will carry off the prisoner; but let nothing be done until I give the word.
  • In the afternoon, with some moderation of conditions, the ballast party went to work, and wrought so well that more than 10 tons were got off before night.
  • If the worst happens, Kaiser will fling overboard a lot of ballast in Europe, and it will look like a big victory for the Allies, but he won't be beaten if he has the road to the East safe.
  • "This is the idea, Dick: you will admit that if I can get to the prisoner, and throw out a quantity of ballast, equal to his weight, I shall have in nowise altered the equilibrium of the balloon.