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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

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