ballast
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n. (c./u.)Noun (Countable/Uncountable)Weight that steadies a sea vessel in water
The submarine was unable to empty its ballast tanks and sank to the bottom of the ocean
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Why Are There Stones Along Railway Tracks?
- The crushed stones that line railroad tracks are collectively called track ballast.
The crushed stones that line railroad tracks are collectively called track ballast.
- The crushed stones that line railroad tracks are collectively called track ballast.
The crushed stones that line railroad tracks are collectively called track ballast.
Washington Black | I'm Going to Fly | Clip
- I need to vary the weight and test the ballast so I can get a sense of how it affects the flight characteristics.
I need to vary the weight and test the ballast so I can get a sense of how it affects the flight characteristics.
- I need to vary the weight and test the ballast so I can get a sense of how it affects the flight characteristics.
I need to vary the weight and test the ballast so I can get a sense of how it affects the flight characteristics.
Oliver Leaves His Dips Behind | Only Murders In The Building | Hulu
- You go on without me. If you dropped that 50-pound bag of ballast, it would be easier. I can't abandon them.
You go on without me. If you dropped that 50-pound bag of ballast, it would be easier. I can't abandon them.
- If you dropped that 50-pound bag of ballast, it would be easier.
If you dropped that 50-pound bag of ballast, it would be easier.
Submarine Nuclear Power | Engineering behind it Nuclear Reactor How it Works
- Ballast tank technology is a complicated process,
Ballast tank technology is a complicated process,
- In a submarine, there are ballast tanks attached to both the front and back, and
In a submarine, there are ballast tanks attached to both the front and back, and
Ex-American about his 32 years in Singapore
- He goes, our country doesn't have the ballast that your country has.
He goes, our country doesn't have the ballast that your country has.
- He goes, "Our country doesn't have the ballast that your country has." He was talking about the United States.
He goes, "Our country doesn't have the ballast that your country has." He was talking about the United States.
Zenosyne: The Sense That Time Keeps Going Faster
- As more of your day repeats itself, you start to cast off dead weight and feel the steady pull toward your center of gravity, the ballast of memories you hold on to, until it all seems to move under its own inertia.
As more of your day repeats itself, you start to cast off dead weight and feel the steady pull toward your center of gravity, the ballast of memories you hold on to, until it all seems to move under its own inertia.
- the ballast of memories you hold onto,
the ballast of memories you hold onto,
Totally Spies! The Movie
- Ha ballast before this the only book that's gonna save my life has been my little black book
Ha ballast before this the only book that's gonna save my life has been my little black book
Why Are There Stones Along Railway Tracks?
- This is where the stones, technically known as track ballast, come in.
This is where the stones, technically known as track ballast, come in.
- and the sleepers sit on the ballast.
and the sleepers sit on the ballast.
How ships are trying to break through the US blockade in the Strait of Hormuz | BBC News
- It arrived here just off Oman, and it's in Ballast, so it doesn't have any cargo on board.
It arrived here just off Oman, and it's in Ballast, so it doesn't have any cargo on board.
- and it's in Ballast, so it doesn't have any cargo on board,
and it's in Ballast, so it doesn't have any cargo on board,
Call of Cthulhu HP Lovecraft - Audio Book - With Words / Closed Captions
- The Emma, in ballast, had cleared Auckland on 20 February and had felt the full force of that earthquake-born tempest which must have heaved up from the sea bottom the horrors that filled men's dreams.
The Emma, in ballast, had cleared Auckland on 20 February and had felt the full force of that earthquake-born tempest which must have heaved up from the sea bottom the horrors that filled men's dreams.
- The Emma, in ballast, had cleared Auckland on February 20th, and had felt the full force
The Emma, in ballast, had cleared Auckland on February 20th, and had felt the full force