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Ballast
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Ballast
[film] Ballast is a 2008 film directed by Lance Hammer. It competed in the Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the awards for Best Director and Best Cinematography. The film received 6 nominations in the 2009 Film Independent Spirit Awards. ==Plot== The film...
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Ballast
A means of giving stability to otherwise unstable electrical loads. 1) Resistive ballast - practice of patching a lantern onto a dimmer that is running an inductive load, for example a fan. 2) Inductive ballast is required by discharge type lanterns as part of the circuitry to control the current th...
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Ballast
Weight used for balancing a vessel.
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Ballast
Layer of crushed rock placed on roadbed to keep track aligned and allow drainage.
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ballast
[n] - any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship 2. [v] - make steady with a ballast
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Ballast
Weight used for balancing a model, particularly nautical vessels and aircraft.
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Ballast
A very heavy material, such as lead or iron, placed in the keel of the boat, or in the bilge. It is used to provide stability. In sailing dinghies the crew uses their weight as ballast.
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ballast
1. for ships, water taken onboard into specific tanks to permit proper angle of repose of the vessel in the water, and to assure structural stability. 2. for mobile offshore drilling rigs, weight added to make the rig more seaworthy, increase its draft, or sink it to the seafloor. Seawater is usu...
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Ballast
additional weight to help balance a boat
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Ballast
Heavy materials, (such as stone, gravel or tiles), carried by ships so as to stable in storms of the past. The ballast may contain artefacts where the ballast was taken on board, e.g. the stone heads at Wallington, Northumberland, came from London. Flint ballast usually came from the east of Englan...
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Ballast
A weight carried in an aeroplane, balloon or airship to trim it with respect to its centre of gravity or to alter its buoyancy. In aeroplanes, ballast usually takes the form of lead disks. In balloons and airships sand or water is usually carried as ballast, as they can be easily discharged.
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Ballast
Hard core used to provide a stable & solid base with good drainage for the track. Usually granite Chippings between 1-2 inches diameter are used, although cinders and other material is not uncommon.
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Ballast
In days of the clipper ships, when occasionally the ship had to sail from one port to another without cargo to provide stability in the hold, the ships used to fill their holds with material from the local beaches. This provided the additional 'ballast' required allowing the ship to safely sail to i...
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Ballast
Bal'last (băl'l a st) noun [ Dutch ballast ; akin to Danish baglast , ballast , OSw. barlast , Swedish ballast . The first part is perhaps the same word as English bare , adj.; the second is las...
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Ballast
Bal'last transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Ballasted ; present participle & verbal noun Ballasting .] 1. To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold....
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ballast
1. To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold. ... 2. To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc, in order to make it firm and solid. ... 3. To keep steady; to steady, morally. ''T is charity must ballast the heart.' (Hammond) ... Origin: Ballasted; Ballasting...
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ballast
noun an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings
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ballast
noun any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship
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ballast
noun coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads
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ballast
verb make steady with a ballast
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ballast
noun an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps
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Ballast
• (a.) 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. • (v. t.) To keep steady; to steady, morally. • (a.) Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security. • (...
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ballast
(from the article `railroad`) When track is laid on a completed roadbed, its foundation is ballast, usually of crushed rock, slag, or volcanic ash. The sleepers, or crossties, to ...
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Ballast
weight in the lower portion of a boat, used to add stability
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Ballast
Ballast is slang for food, a heavy meal.
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