ballast

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Heavy material that is placed in the hold of a ship (or in the gondola of a balloon), to provide stability.

   ““Oh, for the-- how much did you waste on that little boondoggle?” “Well, it's not that so much as--” “Krieger.” “Well, I needed ballast, and what better to simulate bricks of cocaine than, you know, bricks of cocaine.””

2. isim Anything that steadies emotion or the mind.
3. isim Coarse gravel or similar material laid to form a bed for roads or railroads, or in making concrete; track ballast.
4. isim A material, such as aggregate or precast concrete pavers, which employs its mass and the force of gravity to hold single-ply roof membranes in place.
5. isim Loose stone or big gravel used to hold rails and tracks in place.
6. isim device used for stabilizing current in an electric circuit (e.g. in a tube lamp supply circuit)
7. isim That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.

   “It [piety] is the right ballast of prosperity.”

8. fiil To stabilize or load a ship with ballast.
9. fiil To lay ballast on the bed of a railroad track.

   “The task of a Railway Construction Company, R.E., is to lay and ballast the track; [...].”

10. fiil To weigh down with a ballast.

    “The noosance was […] that to make the umbrella effective he would have to carry abroad such weight to ballast it as would put the whole contraption out of action for carrying abroad at all.”