ballast

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• Received-Pronunciation, US: /ˈbæl.əst/
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• rhymes with -æləst
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• CMU ARPABET: B AE1 L AH0 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English bar (“bare”) + last (“load”).

114 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: balast — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Bulgarian: баласт (balast) — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Catalan: llast — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Chinese Mandarin: 壓載 /压载 (yāzài) — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Czech: zátěž — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Danish: ballast — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Dutch: ballast — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Esperanto: balasto — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Estonian: ballast — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Faroese: barlast — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Faroese: kjølfesta — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Faroese: studningur — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Finnish: painolasti — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Finnish: paarlasti — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• French: lest — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• German: Ballast — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Greek: έρμα (érma) — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Greek: σαβούρα (savoúra) — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Ancient Greek: ἕρμα (hérma) — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Greenlandic: ballasti — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Hungarian: ballaszt — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Hungarian: holtsúly — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Ido: balasto — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Indonesian: balas — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Italian: zavorra — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Japanese: バラスト (barasuto) — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Korean: 밸러스트 (baelleoseuteu) — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Māori: taowaka — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Māori: pēhanga kowhatu — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Māori: pēhi — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Norwegian Bokmål: ballast — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ballast — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Polish: balast — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Portuguese: lastro — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Romanian: balast — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Romanian: lest — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Russian: балла́ст (ballást) — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Serbo-Croatian: баласт — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Serbo-Croatian: balast — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Spanish: lastre — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Swedish: barlast — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Swedish: ballast — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Tagalog: tulakbahala — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Thai: อับเฉา (àp-chǎo) — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Turkish: balast — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Turkish: safra — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Ottoman Turkish: صافره (safra) — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Ukrainian: бала́ст (balást) — heavy material placed in the hold of a vessel
• Spanish: lastre — anything that steadies emotion or mind
• Albanian: balast — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Bulgarian: баластра (balastra) — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Chinese Mandarin: 道砟 (dàozhǎ) — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Chinese Mandarin: 道碴 (dàozhǎ, dàochá) — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Dutch: bedding — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Dutch: ballastbed — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Esperanto: balasto — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Estonian: ballast — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Finnish: raidesora — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Finnish: raidesepeli — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Finnish: tukikerros — material laid to form a bed for a road
• French: remblai — material laid to form a bed for a road
• French: ballast — material laid to form a bed for a road
• German: Bettung — material laid to form a bed for a road
• German: Schotter — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Hebrew: רבד (reved) — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Ido: balasto — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Indonesian: balas — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Italian: massicciata — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Norwegian: ballast — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Norwegian: fundament — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Polish: balast — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Polish: podsypka — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Portuguese: balastro — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Romanian: pietriș — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Romanian: balast — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Romanian: blocaj — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Spanish: balastro — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Spanish: balasto — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Swedish: barlast — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Swedish: ballast — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Turkish: balast — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Ottoman Turkish: بالاست (balast) — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Ukrainian: бала́ст (balást) — material laid to form a bed for a road
• Bulgarian: товар (tovar) — electronics
• Dutch: ballast — electronics
• Estonian: ballast — electronics
• Finnish: kuristin — electronics
• Finnish: virranrajoitin — electronics
• Finnish: elektroninen virranrajoitin — electronics
• French: ballast — electronics
• Italian: regolatore — electronics
• Romanian: balast — electronics
• Spanish: balasto — electronics
• Spanish: balastra — electronics
• Spanish: balastro — electronics
• Thai: บัลลาสต์ (ban-làat) — electronics
• Albanian: balastoj — to stabilize a ship with ballast
• Catalan: llastar — to stabilize a ship with ballast
• Estonian: ballastima — to stabilize a ship with ballast
• Finnish: ottaa painolastia — to stabilize a ship with ballast
• French: ballaster — to stabilize a ship with ballast
• Ido: balastizar — to stabilize a ship with ballast
• Latin: saburro — to stabilize a ship with ballast
• Māori: tauta — to stabilize a ship with ballast
• Norwegian: ballaste — to stabilize a ship with ballast
• Polish: balastować — to stabilize a ship with ballast
• Spanish: lastrar — to stabilize a ship with ballast
• Albanian: balastoj — to lay ballast on the bed of a railway track
• Estonian: ballastima — to lay ballast on the bed of a railway track
• Finnish: sepelöidä — to lay ballast on the bed of a railway track
• German: beschottern — to lay ballast on the bed of a railway track
• Ido: balastizar — to lay ballast on the bed of a railway track
• Finnish: tasapainottaa — to weigh down with a ballast
• Polish: balastować — to weigh down with a ballast