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Ballast


Definition:

  • (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.

Kentledge


Definition:

  • (n.) Pigs of iron used for ballast.

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