Schotter — meaning in English
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English meaning
- ballast noun Heavy material carried in a ship, balloon, or vehicle to provide stability.
- gravel noun Small loose stones and pebbles, often used to surface roads, paths, or driveways.
- grit noun Small, hard particles such as sand, dirt, or grime.
- spoil verb To ruin something, making it unusable, unpleasant, or less enjoyable.
Senses
Schotter is used for these senses in English:
- ballast Coarse gravel or similar material laid to form a bed for roads or railroads, or in making concrete; track ballast.
- gravel (uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast.
- grit A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
- spoil (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else.
ballast — full definition
- noun Heavy material carried in a ship, balloon, or vehicle to provide stability.
- noun Crushed stone or gravel laid down to form a stable bed for a road or railway track.
- verb To stabilise something by loading it with heavy material.