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Ballast vs. Ignitor — What's the Difference?

Ballast vs. Ignitor — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Ballast and Ignitor

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Ballast

Ballast is material that is used to provide stability to a vehicle or structure. Ballast, other than cargo, may be placed in a vehicle, often a ship or the gondola of a balloon or airship, to provide stability.

Ignitor

To cause to burn
The spark plug ignites the fuel.

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.

Ignitor

To set fire to
Faulty wiring ignited the attic.

Ballast

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

To arouse the passions of; excite
The insults ignited my anger.

Ballast

The gravel ingredient of concrete.

Ignitor

To bring about or provoke suddenly; stir up
The news report ignited a controversy.

Ballast

Something that gives stability, especially in character.

Ignitor

To begin to burn
Had trouble getting the wet tinder to ignite.

Ballast

To stabilize or provide with ballast.

Ignitor

Alternative spelling of igniter

Ballast

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

Ignitor

One who, or that which, produces ignition; especially, a contrivance for igniting the powder in a torpedo or the like.

Ballast

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

Ignitor

A substance used to ignite or kindle a fire

Ballast

(figuratively) Anything that steadies emotion or the mind.

Ignitor

A device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires;
Do you have a light?

Ballast

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

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.

Ballast

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

Ballast

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

Ballast

To stabilize or load a ship with ballast.

Ballast

To lay ballast on the bed of a railroad track.

Ballast

To weigh down with a ballast.

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.

Ballast

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

Ballast

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

Ballast

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

Ballast

Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.
It [piety] is the right ballast of prosperity.

Ballast

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

Ballast

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

Ballast

To keep steady; to steady, morally.
'T is charity must ballast the heart.

Ballast

Any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship

Ballast

Coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads

Ballast

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

Ballast

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

Ballast

An electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps

Ballast

Make steady with a ballast

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