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.
Definitions
- adjective. 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.
- adjective. Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.
- adjective. Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.
- adjective. The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete.
- adjective. Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.
- transitive verb. To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold.
- transitive verb. To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid.
- transitive verb. To keep steady; to steady, morally.
- noun. any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship
- noun. an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps
- noun. a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations)
- noun. an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings
- noun. coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads
- verb. make steady with a ballast
Synonyms
Common word forms
ballasts, ballasted, ballaster, ballasting
Words from these letters
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