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ballast
English
Etymology
From Middle English bar (“bare”) + last (“load”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /?bæl.?st/
- Rhymes: -æl?st
Noun
ballast (usually uncountable, plural ballasts)
- (nautical) Heavy material that is placed in the hold of a ship (or in the gondola of a balloon), to provide stability.
- (figuratively) Anything that steadies emotion or the mind.
- Coarse gravel or similar material laid to form a bed for roads or railroads, or in making concrete.
- (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.
- (countable, electricity, electronics) device used for stabilizing current in an electric circuit (e.g. in a tube lamp supply circuit)
- (figuratively) That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Profitableness of Godliness
- It [piety] is the right ballast of prosperity.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Profitableness of Godliness
Derived terms
- autoballaster
- ballast wagon
Translations
Verb
ballast (third-person singular simple present ballasts, present participle ballasting, simple past and past participle ballasted)
- To stabilize or load a ship with ballast.
- To lay ballast on the bed of a railroad track.
Derived terms
- reballast, reballasting
Translations
Gallery
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch ballast.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??l?st/
- Hyphenation: bal?last
- Rhymes: -?st
Noun
ballast m (plural ballasten)
- (now chiefly uncountable) ballast (weights used in ships or aerostats)
- (figuratively, uncountable) baggage (something that hampers functioning)
Derived terms
- ballastscheeps
Descendants
- Afrikaans: ballas
- ? Indonesian: balas
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.last/
Noun
ballast m (plural ballasts)
- (nautical) Heavy material that is placed in the hold of a ship (or in the gondola of a balloon), to provide stability.
- Coarse gravel or similar material laid to form a bed for roads or railroads.
Further reading
- “ballast” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Middle Low German barlast
Noun
ballast m (definite singular ballasten, indefinite plural ballaster, definite plural ballastene)
- ballast
References
- “ballast” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Middle Low German barlast
Noun
ballast m (definite singular ballasten, indefinite plural ballastar, definite plural ballastane)
ballast f (definite singular ballasta, indefinite plural ballaster, definite plural ballastene)
- ballast
References
- “ballast” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Adjective
ballast
- superlative predicative form of ball.
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buffer
English
Etymology
Agent noun from obsolete verb buff (“make a dull sound when struck”) (mid-16c.), from Old French buffe (“blow”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?f?(?)/, [?b?f?(?)]
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b?f?/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?baf?(?)/, [?bäf?(?)]
- Rhymes: -?f?(r)
Noun
buffer (plural buffers)
- Someone or something that buffs.
- A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
- A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
- (chemistry) A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
- (computing) A portion of memory set aside to store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
- (mechanical) Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
- (telecommunications) A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.
- (rail transport) A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
- 1885, W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, Act II, in The Mikado, and Other Plays, New York: Modern Library, 1917, p. 42, [1]
- The idiot who, in railway carriages, / Scribbles on window panes, / We only suffer / To ride on a buffer / In Parliamentary trains.
- 1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, Collins, 1998, Chapter 14,
- Then, with a shock like a thousand goods trains crashing into a thousand pairs of buffers, the lips of rock closed.
- 1885, W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, Act II, in The Mikado, and Other Plays, New York: Modern Library, 1917, p. 42, [1]
- (rail transport) The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.
- An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
- (politics, international relations) A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
- (colloquial) A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
- 1955, C. S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew, Collins, 1998, Chapter 1,
- I can’t expect two youngsters like you to find it much fun talking to an old buffer like me.
- 1955, C. S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew, Collins, 1998, Chapter 1,
- (figuratively) A gap that isolates or separates two things.
- (Britain, nautical, slang) The chief bosun's mate.
- 2001, Mark Higgitt, Through Fire and Water (page 43)
- He decided to run for president of the POs' Mess against the Buffer, Chief Bosun's Mate Mal Crane, but the two had a face-to-face in his cabin one night in Narvik and sorted it out.
- 2015, Peter Broadbent, A Singapore Fling: An AB's Far-Flung Adventure
- I happen to be on the brow handing my Bosun's Mate duties over to an Ordinary Seaman when the Buffer arrives with an unofficial Side-Party to man the brow with Bosun's Calls at the ready.
- 2001, Mark Higgitt, Through Fire and Water (page 43)
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
buffer (third-person singular simple present buffers, present participle buffering, simple past and past participle buffered)
- To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
- (computing) To store data in memory temporarily.
- (chemistry) To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.
Translations
Adjective
buffer
- comparative form of buff: more buff
Related terms
- bufferize
- buffer lass
- buffer up
- buffer zone
Anagrams
- rebuff
Danish
Etymology
From English buffer.
Noun
buffer c (singular definite bufferen, plural indefinite buffere)
- (chemistry) buffer
Declension
Synonyms
- puffer
Further reading
- “buffer” in Den Danske Ordbog
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English buffer.
Noun
buffer m (invariable)
- (computing) buffer
- Synonym: memoria tampone
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English buffer.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?b?.fe?/
Noun
buffer m (plural buffers)
- (computing) buffer (memory for temporary storage)
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) buffar
- (Sutsilvan) bufar
- (Vallader) boffar
Etymology
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Verb
buffer
- (Puter) to blow
Synonyms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) sufflar
- (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) zuflar
- (Puter) zufler
- (Vallader) sofflar
Spanish
Noun
buffer m (plural buffers)
- (computing) buffer
Westrobothnian
Verb
buffer
- Alternative form of bufför
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