(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.
Crank
Definition:
(n.) A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. See Bell crank.
(n.) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
(n.) A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
(n.) A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.
(n.) A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter.
(n.) A sick person; an invalid.
(n.) Sick; infirm.
(n.) Liable to careen or be overset, as a ship when she is too narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry full sail.
(n.) Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
(n.) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
Example Sentences:
(1) A crank arm length of 170 mm and pedalling rate of 100 rpm correspond closely to the cost function minimum.
(2) Known as crank, crystal, ice, crystal meth, and speed, MAP can be produced easily from ephedrine, and it is widely available.
(3) Eighty degrees further forward, along the minor axis, was the crank arm orientation for the second ellipse, Eng90.
(4) Vote for me, and I will complete the job of rebalancing it... January 28, 2014 12.03pm GMT Britain's businesses need to stop sitting on their cash piles and crank up their investment, argues IPPR’s chief economist Tony Dolphin: “The news that manufacturing is growing is welcome.
(5) A defeated Trump could be expected to be even busier, cranking up what many expect will be a far-right Trump TV network, which he’s already been road testing on Facebook.
(6) It’s a sweet, tender, funny reintroduction to a classic character, and after a few recent PR missteps by Archie Comics – which cranked up Kickstarter campaigns to quickly relaunch other modernised versions of some of its classic titles, before abandoning the idea after complaints from fans and industry professionals – looks like a solid launchpad for its 75th-anniversary celebrations.
(7) The method consists of simultaneously measuring both the normal and tangential pedal forces, the EMGs of eight leg muscles, and the crank arm and pedal angles.
(8) Seven subjects were successively submitted to LBNP exposure, arm cranking physical exercise, and to a combination of both procedures (LBNP + arm cranking) in order to check whether this combination enhances RAAS activity.
(9) A progressive continuous arm cranking test, modified for each group, was employed to elicit maximal responses with pulmonary and metabolic determinations made with open circuit spirometry and selected cardiovascular measurements made by impedance cardiography.
(10) Orgasms were the stuff of the academy and of politics in the 1970s, but now, to go anywhere near that stuff would be a fast and effective way to sound like a crank.
(11) Who else would have decided to leave the relative cosiness of Ditchling Village for Hopkins Crank, an unreconstructed Georgian squatter's cottage and outbuildings on Ditchling Common?
(12) A ceiling fan cranked to full capacity was useless against the oppressive summer heat.
(13) In recent weeks Trump has been cranking up his gender attacks on Clinton, accusing her of playing the woman card and criticising her for being an “enabler” of her husband’s infidelities.
(14) And that allows the viewer to read into them his or her own view of the world, and then cranks up the emotional volume as high as it will go.
(15) This system consists of a flexible rod, sheath, crank, and cam to transmit the muscle power to a pusher plate pump and actuate it.
(16) Analysis of variance (ANOVA) indicated that both peak heart rate (HR) and rate pressure product (RPP) increased significantly with increases in cranking rate across the three tests (p less than .05).
(17) Then came Twitter, which really cranked things up in terms of the terror around your own public persona.
(18) The royal soap opera soon cranked up into a Hollywood blockbuster: the wedding at St Paul’s, the babies, infidelities on both sides, divorce, Diana’s shocking death in Paris, national mourning, Elton John at the funeral.
(19) The first of the extra 12,000 Syrian refugees should arrive in Australia before Christmas as officials crank up a $700m process to select, check and resettle them.
(20) Anyway, grab your party hat and some streamers, crank your German rock way up high and let’s get this party started.