Ballast vs. Concrete

Ballast and Concrete Definitions
Ballast
Heavy material that is carried to improve stability or maintain proper trim, as on a ship, or to limit buoyancy, as on a balloon.
Concrete
Of or relating to an actual, specific thing or instance; particular
Had the concrete evidence needed to convict.
Ballast
Coarse gravel or crushed rock laid to form a bed for roads or railroads.
Concrete
Relating to nouns, such as flower or rain, that denote a material or tangible object or phenomenon.
Ballast
The gravel ingredient of concrete.
Concrete
Existing in reality or in real experience; perceptible by the senses; real
Concrete objects such as trees.
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Ballast
Something that gives stability, especially in character.
Concrete
Formed by the coalescence of separate particles or parts into one mass; solid.
Ballast
To stabilize or provide with ballast.
Concrete
Made of hard, strong, conglomerate construction material.
Ballast
To fill (a railroad bed) with or as if with ballast.
Concrete
A hard, strong construction material consisting of sand, conglomerate gravel, pebbles, broken stone, or slag in a mortar or cement matrix.
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Ballast
(nautical) Heavy material that is placed in the hold of a ship (or in the gondola of a balloon), to provide stability.
Concrete
A mass formed by the coalescence of particles.
Ballast
(figuratively) Anything that steadies emotion or the mind.
Concrete
To build, treat, or cover with hard, strong conglomerate construction material.
Ballast
Coarse gravel or similar material laid to form a bed for roads or railroads, or in making concrete; track ballast.
Concrete
To form into a mass by coalescence or cohesion of particles or parts.
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Ballast
(construction) A material, such as aggregate or precast concrete pavers, which employs its mass and the force of gravity to hold single-ply roof membranes in place.
Concrete
To harden; solidify.
Ballast
Device used for stabilizing current in an electric circuit (e.g. in a tube lamp supply circuit)
Concrete
Real, actual, tangible.
Fuzzy videotapes and distorted sound recordings are not concrete evidence that Bigfoot exists.
Once arrested, I realized that handcuffs are concrete, even if my concept of what is legal wasn’t.
Ballast
(figurative) That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.
Concrete
Being or applying to actual things, not abstract qualities or categories.
Ballast
To stabilize or load a ship with ballast.
Concrete
Particular, specific, rather than general.
While everyone else offered thoughts and prayers, she made a concrete proposal to help.
Concrete ideas
Ballast
To lay ballast on the bed of a railroad track.
Concrete
United by coalescence of separate particles, or liquid, into one mass or solid.
Ballast
To weigh down with a ballast.
Concrete
Made of concrete, a building material.
The office building had concrete flower boxes out front.
Ballast
Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing.
Concrete
(obsolete) A solid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particles; a compound substance, a concretion.
Ballast
Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.
Concrete
Specifically, a building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand.
The road was made of concrete that had been poured in large slabs.
Ballast
Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.
Concrete
(logic) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
Ballast
The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete.
Concrete
Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
Ballast
Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.
It [piety] is the right ballast of prosperity.
Concrete
(US) A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.
Ballast
To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold.
Concrete
(chemistry) An extract of herbal materials that has a semi-solid consistency, especially when such materials are partly aromatic.
Ballast
To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid.
Concrete
To cover with or encase in concrete (building material).
I hate grass, so I concreted over my lawn.
Ballast
To keep steady; to steady, morally.
'T is charity must ballast the heart.
Concrete
To solidify: to change from being abstract to being concrete (actual, real).
Ballast
Any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship
Concrete
To unite or coalesce into a mass or a solid body.
Ballast
Coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads
Concrete
United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form.
The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state.
Ballast
An attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings
Concrete
Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object; - opposed to abstract.
Concrete is opposed to abstract. The names of individuals are concrete, those of classes abstract.
Concrete terms, while they express the quality, do also express, or imply, or refer to, some subject to which it belongs.
Ballast
A resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations)
Concrete
A compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body.
To divide all concretes, minerals and others, into the same number of distinct substances.
Ballast
An electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps
Concrete
A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures.
Ballast
Make steady with a ballast
Concrete
A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
The concretes "father" and "son" have, or might have, the abstracts "paternity" and "filiety".
Concrete
Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
Concrete
To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body.
Concrete
To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles.
There are in our inferior world divers bodies that are concreted out of others.
Concrete
To cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement.
Concrete
A strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water
Concrete
Cover with cement;
Concrete the walls
Concrete
Form into a solid mass; coalesce
Concrete
Capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary;
Concrete objects such as trees
Concrete
Formed by the coalescence of particles