ballast

Etymology
From +.

Noun

 * 1)  Heavy material that is placed in the hold of a ship (or in the gondola of a balloon), to provide stability.
 * 2)  Anything that steadies emotion or the mind.
 * 3) Coarse gravel or similar material laid to form a bed for roads or railroads, or in making concrete; track ballast.
 * 4)  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)  device used for stabilizing current in an electric circuit (e.g. in a tube lamp supply circuit)
 * 6)  That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: zátěž
 * Danish: ballast
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: balasto
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: barlast, kjølfesta, studningur
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ἕρμα
 * Greenlandic: ballasti
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: バラスト
 * Maori: taowaka, pēhanga kowhatu
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ballast
 * Nynorsk: ballast
 * Ottoman Turkish: صافره
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: баласт
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: tulakbahala
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,


 * Spanish:


 * Albanian:
 * Bulgarian: баластра
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: balasto
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: raidesora, raidesepeli, tukikerros
 * French: ,
 * German: Bettung,
 * Hebrew:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: ballast (for railroads), fundament
 * Ottoman Turkish: بالاست
 * Polish:, podsypka
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Spanish: balastro,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, virranrajoitin, elektroninen virranrajoitin
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:, balastra , balastro
 * Thai: บัลลาสต์


 * Ido:

Verb

 * 1) To stabilize or load a ship with ballast.
 * 2) To lay ballast on the bed of a railroad track.
 * 3) To weigh down with a ballast.
 * 1) To weigh down with a ballast.
 * 1) To weigh down with a ballast.

Translations

 * Albanian: balastoj
 * Catalan:
 * Estonian: ballastima
 * Finnish: ottaa painolastia
 * French:
 * Ido:
 * Latin: saburro
 * Maori: tauta
 * Norwegian: ballaste
 * Polish: balastować
 * Spanish:


 * Albanian: balastoj
 * Estonian: ballastima
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Ido:


 * Finnish:
 * Polish: balastować

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)   weights used in ships or aerostats
 * 2)   something that hampers functioning

Noun

 * 1)  heavy material that is placed in the hold of a ship (or in the gondola of a balloon), to provide stability
 * 2) coarse gravel or similar material laid to form a bed for roads or railroads

Etymology
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