All ballast synonyms
bal·last
B b noun ballast
- weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- support — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- stability — the state or quality of being stable.
- bracket — If you say that someone or something is in a particular bracket, you mean that they come within a particular range, for example a range of incomes, ages, or prices.
- counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
- balance — If you balance something somewhere, or if it balances there, it remains steady and does not fall.
- brace — If you brace yourself for something unpleasant or difficult, you prepare yourself for it.
- sandbag — a bag filled with sand, used in fortification, as ballast, etc.
- counterweight — A counterweight is an action or proposal that is intended to balance or counter other actions or proposals.
- stabilizer — a person or thing that stabilizes.
- bulk — You can refer to something's bulk when you want to emphasize that it is very large.
- makeweight — something put in a scale to complete a required weight.
verb ballast
- stabilise — to make or hold stable, firm, or steadfast.
- freighted — goods, cargo, or lading transported for pay, whether by water, land, or air.
- top off — the highest or loftiest point or part of anything; apex; summit. Synonyms: zenith, acme, peak, pinnacle, vertex. Antonyms: bottom, base, foot, lowest point.
- poise — a centimeter-gram-second unit of viscosity, equal to the viscosity of a fluid in which a stress of one dyne per square centimeter is required to maintain a difference of velocity of one centimeter per second between two parallel planes in the fluid that lie in the direction of flow and are separated by a distance of one centimeter. Symbol: P.
- weighted — having additional weight.
- stabilize — to make or hold stable, firm, or steadfast.
- pile up — an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other: a pile of papers; a pile of bricks.
- firming — not soft or yielding when pressed; comparatively solid, hard, stiff, or rigid: firm ground; firm texture.
- ballasted — Nautical. any heavy material carried temporarily or permanently in a vessel to provide desired draft and stability.
- massing — a body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size: a mass of dough.
- load — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- pile on — heap
- massed — a body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size: a mass of dough.
- weighting — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- containerize — to convey (cargo) in standard-sized containers
- chock — a block or wedge of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object