Synonyms for ballast
ˈbæl əstbal·last

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. ballastnoun

   any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship

   Synonyms:
   light ballast, ballast resistor, barretter

2. ballastnoun

   coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads

   Synonyms:
   light ballast, ballast resistor, barretter

3. ballastnoun

   an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings

   Synonyms:
   light ballast, ballast resistor, barretter

4. ballast resistor, ballast, barretternoun

   a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations)

   Synonyms:
   light ballast, ballast resistor, barretter

5. ballast, light ballastverb

   an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps

   Synonyms:
   light ballast, ballast resistor, barretter

6. ballastverb

   make steady with a ballast

Matched Categories

1. • Attribute
   • Gravel
   • Material
   • Resistor
   • Stabilize

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ballastnoun

   Synonyms:
   weight (for steadiness), ballasting

2. ballastnoun

   Synonyms:
   prudence, discretion, judgment, sense, wisdom, TACT, GUMPTION, common sense

3. ballastverb

   Synonyms:
   put ballast into

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. ballastnoun

   Synonyms:
   steadiness, self-control, equipoise, stability, judgment

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "ballast":

   ballasts, ballasting, lastra

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:1.3 / 4 votes

1. ballast

   Synonyms:
   See Isomeric ballast
   

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How to use ballast in a sentence?

1. Henry David Thoreau:

   Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life

2. State Councillor Wang Yi:

   As long as China and the United States proactively meet each other halfway, then trade and economic cooperation can still play a role as a ballast stone in Sino-U.S. ties.

3. William Penn:

   Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

4. Professor Richard Sanders:

   If we can get the density of this instrument just right, it will sit neither sinking nor floating. Now that's easy to say but it's actually a considerable challenge to do... They weigh about 100 kilograms and we need to ballast them to approximately better than one gram. So that's a considerable challenge. The way that we do that is by putting them in tanks of water... and adding weights until they're just sinking; at which point we know they have the same density as the water that they're sitting in.

5. Brett Redman:

   The built sites provide ballast and cashflow, it becomes real at the very beginning and that turns this from an announcement in to a genuine fund with genuine cash.