ballast 的 2 个定义
- Nautical. any heavy material carried temporarily or permanently in a vessel to provide desired draft and stability.
- Aeronautics. something heavy, as bags of sand, placed in the car of a balloon for control of altitude and, less often, of attitude, or placed in an aircraft to control the position of the center of gravity.
- anything that gives mental, moral, or political stability or steadiness: the ballast of a steady income.
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- to furnish with ballast: to ballast a ship.
- to give steadiness to; keep steady: parental responsibilities that ballast a person.
ballast 近义词
something giving balance
ballast 的近义词 11 个
ballast 的反义词 1 个
更多ballast例句
- Other options include dredging around the ship and offloading ballast water, fuel, or cargo.
- While not exactly the Ugly American, Sinatra provided plenty of his own homegrown ballast.
- Especially the Southern ones, who by and large run the party, or at least provide its cultural ballast.
- “Gold lost its structural ballast when it lost its formal relationship to money,” he concludes.
- Straighten up and fly right: the capsule is rolling and jettisoning its remaining ballast masses for parachute deploy.
- Spin down, turn to entry attitude and jettison ballast mass in one minute.
- Sand and gravel are also used for "fill," for engine sands, railroad ballast and glass.
- Old and new measurements, tonnage, time allowances and movable ballast, are all a sealed book to me.
- The big sloop, hard aground and full of iron ballast, was not a thing to be moved easily.
- Our new craft worked and sailed well, after a little addition of ballast.
- I ordered the ballast to be thrown overboard, and determined, as our only chance, to attempt to force her over the reef.