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noun
- (nautical) heavy, Heavy material that is placed in the hold of a ship (or in the gondola of a balloon), to provide stability.
- (figurative) Anything that steady, steadies emotion or the mind.
- coarse, Coarse gravel or similar material laid to form a bed for roads or railroads.
- (electronics) device used for stabilizing current in an electric circuit (e.g.in a tube lamp supply circuit)
verb
- To stabilize or load a ship with ballast.
- To lay ballast on the bed of a railroad track.
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proper noun
- A inland county of England, bounded by Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Surrey and Wiltshire.
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noun
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- A of ice.
- A of stone.
- A cuboid of wood, plastic or other material used as a base on which to cut something.
- Anne Boleyn placed her head on the and awaited her execution.
- A group of urban lots of property, several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets
- I'm going for a walk around the .
- A group of buildings in a city or town, demarcated by streets.
- A of flats.
- The distance from one street to another in a city that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- The place you are looking for is two long blocks east and one short north.
- (slang) The human head.
- I'll knock your off.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end.
- A of 100 tickets.
- (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one ore more physical sector, sectors (see cluster).
- (context, rigging) A case with one or more sheaves/pulleys, used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example, as part of the rigging of a sailing ship.
- (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- Something that prevents something from passing (see blockage).
- There's a in the pipe that means the water can't get through.
- (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- (Cricket) A shot played by holding he bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter"s court.
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verb
- (transitive) To fill (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- The pipe is blocked.
- (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- You're blocking the road - I can't get through.
- (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- His plan to take over the business was blocked by the boss.
- (transitive) The act of impeding an opponent in sports.
- He blocked the basketball player's shot.
- The offensive lineman, offensive linemen tried to the blitz.
- (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors.
- It was very difficult to this scene convincingly.
- (transitive, Cricket) To hit with a block.
- (intransitive, Cricket) To play a block shot.
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noun
- structure with axles and wheels under a railroad carriage or locomotive.
- a cigarette.
- (military) An enemy aircraft.
- (golf) a score one stroke higher than par on any one hole.
- (music) a toy similar to a violin bow, consisting of a wooden stick with notches along one or more sides or edges to produce a rattly noise when kratzed (stroked) against a hard edge, lip of container etc. From Ger. Bogen m? (= It. arco)
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noun (brakemen)
- A railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes, couplings etc
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noun
- A construction or natural feature that spans a divide.
- The rope crosses the river.
- (anatomy) The upper bony ridge of the human nose.
- Rugby players often break the of their noses.
- (dentistry) A prosthesis replacing one or several adjacent tooth, teeth.
- The dentist pulled out the decayed tooth and put in a .
- (nautical) An elevated platform above the upper deck of a mechanically propelled ship from which it is navigated and from which all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain, etc; smaller ships have a wheelhouse, and sailing ships were controlled from a quarterdeck.
- The first officer is on the .
- (music) The piece, on string instruments, that support the strings from the sounding board.
- (computing) A device which connects two or more computer bus, buses, typically in a transparent manner.
- This chip is the between the front-side bus and the I/O bus.
- (communication) A system which connects two or more LAN, local area networks at layer 2.
- The LAN uses a spanning tree algorithm.
- (music) A song contained within another song, often demarcated by meter, key, or melody.
- The lyrics in the song's inverted its meaning.
- (chemistry) A valence bond, atom or chain of atoms that connects two different parts of a molecule; the atoms so connected being bridgeheads.
- (electronics) An unintended solder connection between two or more components or pins.
- (electronics) Any of several electrical devices that measure characteristics such as impedance and inductance by balancing different parts of a circuit
- (billiards, snooker, pool) A particular form of one hand placed on the table to support the cue when making a shot in cue sports.
verb (bridg, ing)
- To be or make a bridge over something.
- With enough cable, we can this gorge.
- (idiomatic) To span as if with a bridge.
- The two groups were able to their differences.
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noun (plural bullet trains)
- (railroading) The shinkansen, a high-speed passenger train of Japan. Runs at speeds from 200-300 kilometers per hour.
- (context, informal) suicide, Suicide by small firearm; see take the bullet train.
- "I should probably take the bullet train, and save her the grief."
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