(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.
(a.) Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.
(a.) Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.
(a.) The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete.
(a.) Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.
(v. t.) To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold.
(v. t.) To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid.
(v. t.) To keep steady; to steady, morally.
Example Sentences:
(1) But does this imply that distomers must always be considered as detrimental ballast?
(2) For miles, only the strip of land for the track is dug up, but in places the footprint is much wider: access routes for work vehicles; holding areas for excavated earth; new electricity substations; mounds of ballast prepared for the day when quarries cannot keep pace with the demands of the construction; extra lines for the trains that will lay the track.
(3) That's likely to mean a tweak in set-up – most likely Vidal will play in more of an advanced role, with Silva adding extra ballast in behind him.
(4) They decreased the filtrate turbidity, concentration of the organic ballast, etc.
(5) The general supremacy of classical theory of balanced nutrition entailed the tendency to remove ballast substances from food products.
(6) Two years ago, on a dizzy night in Stratford where it seemed that everyone had forgotten to bring ballast, Greg Rutherford became the Olympic long jump champion .
(7) Fifteen refractive astigmats were fitted with prism ballasted and truncated plano, spherical lenses and prescription toric soft lenses.
(8) Although Mr Binnie did not take passengers, he took ballast to reproduce the weight of two passengers.
(9) There are other substances with properties that might justify their use, such as ballast preparations, some antidepressive agents, and a few compounds acting principally on the gastrointestinal tract.
(10) Reduction of fat and food without ballast reduced the excretion of oxalic acid in urine.
(11) Potentialities of electrochemical procedures were considered in simulation of liver monooxygenases functions directed to clearance of blood and tissues from toxic and ballast substances by means of hydroxylating oxidation.
(12) For instance, shoring up railways to prevent the ballast under the tracks from being swept away is a mammoth job, costing millions.
(13) As a result of a change in attitude of the regulatory authorities, however, for new drugs the choice in future between the racemic therapeutic or the single isomeric ballast-free drug will largely be based on a critical evaluation of the chiral characteristics with regard to their therapeutic, toxicological and pharmacokinetic aspects.
(14) The method to isolate protease preparations is developed with optimization of production cycles of the stabilization, vacuum-concentration, ballast protein salting-out and lyophilization stages.
(15) One of the techniques commonly used in stabilizing the rotation of a contact lens is prism ballasting.
(16) Mr Cameron may have been seeking intellectual ballast and coolness-by-association; the Oxford First ended up looking out of his depth.
(17) The summary preparation stellin along with a low antiheparin activity possessed a high toxicity explained by the content of ballast proteins of the nonprotamin nature.
(18) Therefore, from microecological-physiological aspects it is suggested to expand the term ballast matter by so-called "optional" or "potential" ballast matter (in the small intestine usually digestible but incompletely degraded nutriments) in addition to "obligatory" ballast matter (nutriments not digestible by indigene enzymes).
(19) Ultimately, the use of a Fluoroperm prism-ballasted fitting set resulted in 16 of 17 eyes (94%) seeing well with a front toric lens.
(20) The virus thus purfied retained completely its haemagglutinating activity and infectivity, and by one purification cycle at least 99% of ballast proteins were removed.
Conglomerate
Definition:
(a.) Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light.
(a.) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.
(n.) That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation.
(n.) A rock, composed or rounded fragments of stone cemented together by another mineral substance, either calcareous, siliceous, or argillaceous; pudding stone; -- opposed to agglomerate. See Breccia.
(v. t.) To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.
Example Sentences:
(1) Silicotuberculous bronchadenitis, conglomerate-cirrhotic lower-lobe silicotuberculosis and their complications (e.g.
(2) The Hashd al-Shaabi, a conglomerate of primarily Shia militias that has played a key role in ousting Isis from cities such as Tikrit, appeared to take a backseat in the liberation of Ramadi, ceding the task primarily to the Iraqi elite counter-terrorism force, local police, the Iraqi army and a small group of Sunni tribesmen, backed by US-led airstrikes.
(3) It is thought Tata, the Indian conglomerate that also owns Jaguar Land Rover and Tetley Tea, is also preparing to cut several hundred roles in operations that serve the Scunthorpe plant, mainly at its Rotherham site.
(4) Physiological functions are a conglomeration of cell functions, and all cells are regulated by information processing and energy distributing systems.
(5) Hutchison Whampoa, the Hong Kong conglomerate that owns Three, agreed in March 2015 to buy O2 from Telefónica of Spain.
(6) In both the experiments there were detected cells in their majority with thinner walls, L-form-like structures, protoplasts and single conglomerates of the cells with thicker walls and anomalous division and the cells at the moment of lysis.
(7) Yet in recent months, Ma has pushed the company far beyond its core domain, placing it among the ranks of highly diversified conglomerates such as Google and GE.
(8) At the beginning of the 2000s, Motsepe began to found a number of companies which would constitute the ARM conglomeration.
(9) His Ukrainian conglomerate reportedly controls nearly half of that country’s coal production, and around a third of its electricity production and distribution.
(10) Apparently the latter represented conglomerates of adherent spheroid elements that resembled somewhat "large bodies" of L-forms.
(11) Among the other detainees was Wu Minglie, the chairman of the New Huangpu group, one of the city's biggest conglomerates.
(12) Its director, Roland Demleitner, said large brewery conglomerates had been increasingly aggressive in their attempts to push small regional breweries out of the shrinking market.
(13) The roentgenological picture of median oat-cell cancer is characterized by the presence of tumor conglomerate in the lung hilus, which consisted of the primary tumor penetrating in lymph nodes adjacent to the bronchus in 66.6% of canses.
(14) Tata Steel has halted plans to sell the Port Talbot steelworks and is instead working on keeping its UK business as part of a joint venture with the German conglomerate ThyssenKrupp.
(15) Electronmicroscopically, the former was a conglomerate of electron-dense materials of various degrees and the latter had a membrane-limited granular structure.
(16) As was found by immunoelectron microscopy, the initial and resistant cells contained WRS in most of their cellular compartments: on free polyribosomes, as large conglomerates in the cytoplasm, on polysomes bound to the rough endoplasmic reticulum membranes and to the outer nuclear membrane, on the cytoskeleton, and in the detergent-insoluble nuclear matrix.
(17) Three banks have been hired to advise on the restructuring with the possibliity of a fourth bank involved, Murdoch's long time adviser Allen & Co. Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Centerview Partners have been hired to advise the media conglomerate, a person familiar with the matter told Fox News.
(18) Whole-tissue stress-strain behavior under uniaxial loading is predicted from an analysis of the compression of a conglomerate of cells in a simple arrangement.
(19) • Far from giving you a blueprint for your rise to the top, these routines will probably cause you to reconsider the whole idea of becoming CEO of a major communications conglomerate.
(20) Aristegui’s team not only uncovered the fact that the president’s wife and his finance minister, [Luis] Videgaray, had received a couple of luxurious residences from a big construction conglomerate that was doing business with the federal government; they also exposed a network of corruption, a radiography of how the president is managing the country’s finances as if he was a feudal lord, as if laws, international treaties and transparency did not exist.