ballasted 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.
ballasted 近义词
等同于 load
等同于 poise
等同于 stabilize
更多ballasted例句
- She ballasted the boat, and for Bompard she was something to lean against.
- She had been literally ballasted with silver, and carried also several precious boxes of gold and jewels.
- His corpulency would always be hinting to you that he was too trimly built, too well ballasted, to be in danger.
- By being properly ballasted, a boat can pass either through or over a sea without being driven astern.
- As the boat must be well ballasted, she must have limited breadth of beam, as also limited side buoyancy.