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PRONUNCIATION OF BALLASTER

ballaster  [ˈbæləstə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BALLASTER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ballaster is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BALLASTER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of ballaster in the English dictionary

The definition of ballaster in the dictionary is someone who supplies ballast for a ship, one who ballasts.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BALLASTER


baluster
ˈbæləstə
breakfaster
ˈbrɛkfəstə
cadastre
kəˈdæstə
canaster
ˈkænəstə
costa
ˈkɒstə
Doncaster
ˈdɒŋkəstə
faster
ˈfɑːstə
fiesta
fɪˈɛstə
investor
ɪnˈvɛstə
Lancaster
ˈlæŋkəstə
manchester
ˈmæntʃɪstə
master
ˈmɑːstə
minister
ˈmɪnɪstə
monster
ˈmɒnstə
Mr
ˈmɪstə
pasta
ˈpæstə
poster
ˈpəʊstə
register
ˈrɛdʒɪstə
sister
ˈsɪstə
vista
ˈvɪstə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BALLASTER

ballad
ballad metre
ballad opera
ballad stanza
ballade
balladeer
balladic
balladist
balladmonger
balladry
ballan
ballan wrasse
Ballance
ballant
Ballantyne
Ballarat
Ballard
Ballardian
ballast
ballat

WORDS THAT END LIKE BALLASTER

alabaster
aster
blaster
broadcaster
caster
Cheshire West and Chester
coaster
disaster
Easter
forecaster
grandmaster
laster
natural disaster
plaster
raster
roller coaster
roller-coaster
spymaster
taster
the master
toaster

Synonyms and antonyms of ballaster in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ballaster» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BALLASTER

Find out the translation of ballaster to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ballaster from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ballaster» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

ballaster
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Ballaster
570 millions of speakers

English

ballaster
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ballaster
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ballaster
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ballaster
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ballaster
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ballaster
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ballaster
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ballaster
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ballaster
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

バラスタ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

ballaster
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ballaster
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

BALLASTER
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ballaster
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बॅलस्टर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ballaster
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ballaster
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ballaster
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ballaster
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ballaster
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

ballaster
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ballaster
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

ballaster
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ballaster
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ballaster

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BALLASTER»

The term «ballaster» is normally little used and occupies the 133.138 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BALLASTER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ballaster

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BALLASTER»

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1
Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740
Historicist and feminist accounts of the `rise of the novel' have neglected the phenomenon of the professional woman writer in England prior to the advent of the sentimental novel in the 1740s.
Ros Ballaster, Rosalind Ballaster, 1998
2
Fabulous Orients: Fictions of the East in England 1662-1785
'Fabulous Orients' is an original work of criticism which illustrates the centrality of narratives of and from the eastern territories of Turkey, Persia, China, and India in the novel and constructions of western identity in a culture on ...
Ros Ballaster, 2007
3
Cultural Institutions of the Novel
In the first sustained study of the novels of amorous intrigue, Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740, Ros Ballaster offers critiques of both these alternative feminist ways of reading. Faulting that criticism which assumes ...
Deidre Lynch, William Beatty Warner, 1996
4
Riding the Black Ram: Law, Literature, and Gender
Ballaster, Seductive Forms, 13. 53. Ibid., 11. Ballaster explicitly connects the romance narrative to the articulation of party politics. But see William B. Warner's critique of what he terms Ballaster's anachronistic feminist assumptions in arguing ...
Susan Heinzelman, 2010
5
Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary ...
Ballaster, Seductive Forms, 76. 81. Ballaster, Seductive Forms, 76. Gilbert and Gubar, The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, 94n. 1, also point out the pun in the last line. 82. I follow Delarivier Manley, The New Atalantis (1709), edited ...
Harriette Andreadis, 2001
6
Fables of the East: Selected Tales, 1662-1785
Each text is accompanied by explanatory head and footnotes, also provided is a glossary of oriental terms and places that were familiar to the texts' eighteenth-century readers.
Rosalind Ballaster, 2005
7
Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature
This explanation corrects Ballaster's judgment in her Introduction to The New Atalantis (viii—ix). As Morgan notes in The Female I/Vits, “[w]e do not know what became of Mrs Manley's son” (35). Ros Ballaster, “Seizing the Means of Seduction: ...
Bernadette Diane Andrea, 2007
8
A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture
3. Narrative. Transmigrations: The. Oriental. Tale. and. the. Novel. in. Eighteenth- Century. Britain. Ros. Ballaster. In 1908, Martha Pike Conant commented that: '' Historians of English fiction have insufficiently recognized the fact that the oriental  ...
Paula R. Backscheider, Catherine Ingrassia, 2009
9
Aphra Behn's English Feminism: Wit and Satire
E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel (1927; reprint, Markham Ontario: Penguin Books Canada, 1976), 25. 7. Duffy, introduction to Letters, v. 8. Woodcock, Incomparable Aphra, 166; Ballaster, "Seizing Means," 94. 9. Day, Told in Letters, 160, 163.
Dolors Altaba-Artal, 1999
10
Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory, and Criticism
ROS. BALLASTER. "Pretences. of. State": Aphra. Behn. and. the. Female. Plot. The Female Plot Aphra Behn turned to fiction writing late in her literary career and only when she could no longer support herself by drama.1 By the 1680s, the  ...
Heidi Hutner, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BALLASTER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ballaster is used in the context of the following news items.
1
A Comparative Balancing Act: Arabic Literature Is from Mars, English …
Marina Warner led a discussion that included comparativists Dominique Jullien, Ros Ballaster, LAL International Advisory Board member ... «Oye! Times, Jun 15»
2
Football spring practice concludes with scrimmage
Senior Chris Ballaster, who tied linebacker TJ Lally for a game high tackles with seven, is one of the men fighting for one of the starting safety ... «SDSU Collegian, Apr 15»
3
Classical music for the Classic City
Artists set to appear in Athens include Finckel (cello), Han (piano), Jose Franch-Ballaster (clarinet), Gloria Chien (piano), Chad Hoopes (violin), ... «Online Athens, Apr 15»
4
News shorts: Armstrong pleads guilty to careless driving
... paying the bonus after the first allegations of Armstrong's doping appeared in the book L.A. Confidentiel by David Walsh and Pierre Ballaster. «Cyclingnews.com, Feb 15»
5
Lance Armstrong loses in $10 million SCA Promotions lawsuit
... paying the bonus after the first allegations of Armstrong's doping appeared in the book L.A. Confidentiel by David Walsh and Pierre Ballaster. «Cyclingnews.com, Feb 15»
6
THAME: Lord Bill's teens triumph with strong set of A-levels
James McManus and Frances Ballaster Harriss will enrol at Cambridge University in September and Chloe Hykin will go on to study economics ... «Thame Today, Aug 14»
7
[Ferry Disaster] Death toll from sunken ferry rises to 262
Preliminary investigations showed that the ferry took only 580 tons of ballaster water which is far below the 2,023 tons required under rules, ... «The Korea Herald, May 14»
8
Celebrating Oxford's inspirational women
Ms Ballaster, a pupil at Lord Williams's School in Thame wrote: “My best friend Alicia inspires me. I have known her since I was 11 years old ... «The Oxford Times, Apr 14»
9
Savannah Music Fest at a glance
7 p.m. March 31: “The Given Note: Daniel Hope, Julian Lage, Mike Block, Jose Franc-Ballaster & Rodney Jordan,” Charles H. Morris Center. «Do Savannah, Mar 14»
10
Les folies de la guerre froide révélées (25) : réagir face à la tragédie
Tentons de ballaster ... Nous vous tenons informés" Et plus rien : la chute au fond avait été fort brutale. L'enquête démontrera que le Thresher ... «AgoraVox, Jan 14»

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