Ballast vs. Concrete

Heavy material that is carried to improve stability or maintain proper trim, as on a ship, or to limit buoyancy, as on a balloon.

Of or relating to an actual, specific thing or instance; particular

Coarse gravel or crushed rock laid to form a bed for roads or railroads.

Relating to nouns, such as flower or rain, that denote a material or tangible object or phenomenon.

The gravel ingredient of concrete.

Existing in reality or in real experience; perceptible by the senses; real

Something that gives stability, especially in character.

Formed by the coalescence of separate particles or parts into one mass; solid.

To stabilize or provide with ballast.

Made of hard, strong, conglomerate construction material.

To fill (a railroad bed) with or as if with ballast.

A hard, strong construction material consisting of sand, conglomerate gravel, pebbles, broken stone, or slag in a mortar or cement matrix.

(nautical) Heavy material that is placed in the hold of a ship (or in the gondola of a balloon), to provide stability.

A mass formed by the coalescence of particles.

(figuratively) Anything that steadies emotion or the mind.

To build, treat, or cover with hard, strong conglomerate construction material.

Coarse gravel or similar material laid to form a bed for roads or railroads, or in making concrete; track ballast.

To form into a mass by coalescence or cohesion of particles or parts.

(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.

To harden; solidify.

Device used for stabilizing current in an electric circuit (e.g. in a tube lamp supply circuit)

Real, actual, tangible.

(figurative) That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.

Being or applying to actual things, not abstract qualities or categories.

To stabilize or load a ship with ballast.

Particular, specific, rather than general.

To lay ballast on the bed of a railroad track.

United by coalescence of separate particles, or liquid, into one mass or solid.

To weigh down with a ballast.

Made of concrete, a building material.

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.

(obsolete) A solid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particles; a compound substance, a concretion.

Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.

Specifically, a building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand.

Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.

(logic) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.

The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete.

Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.

Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.

(US) A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.

To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold.

(chemistry) An extract of herbal materials that has a semi-solid consistency, especially when such materials are partly aromatic.

To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid.

To cover with or encase in concrete (building material).

To keep steady; to steady, morally.

To solidify: to change from being abstract to being concrete (actual, real).

Any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship

To unite or coalesce into a mass or a solid body.

Coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads

United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form.

An attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings

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.

A resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations)

A compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body.

An electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps

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.

Make steady with a ballast

A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.

Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.

To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body.

To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles.

To cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement.

A strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water

Cover with cement;

Form into a solid mass; coalesce

Capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary;

Formed by the coalescence of particles