Dictionary Entry
ballast
ballast is a 7-letter English word with 14 senses as adjective, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing.
- 2adjective
Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.
- 3adjective
Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.
- 4adjective
The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete.
- 5adjective
Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.
- 6transitive verb
To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold.
- 7transitive verb
To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid.
- 8transitive verb
To keep steady; to steady, morally.
- 9noun
any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship
- 10noun
an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps
- 11noun
a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations)
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- 12noun
an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings
- 13noun
coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads
- 14verb
make steady with a ballast
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