Word Finder - balance

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A state in which opposing forces harmonise; equilibrium.

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Mental equilibrium; mental health; calmness, a state of remaining clear-headed and unperturbed.

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Something of equal weight used to provide equilibrium; counterweight.

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Blair thought he could provide a useful balance to Bush's policies.

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A pair of scales.

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Awareness of both viewpoints or matters; neutrality; rationality; objectivity.

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The overall result of conflicting forces, opinions etc.; the influence which ultimately "weighs" more than others.

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I think the balance of opinion is that we should get out while we're ahead.

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Apparent harmony in art (between differing colours, sounds, etc.).

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A list accounting for the debits on one side, and for the credits on the other.

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The result of such a procedure; the difference between credit and debit of an account.

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I just need to nip to a bank and check my balance.

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A device used to regulate the speed of a watch, clock etc.

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The remainder.

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The balance of the agreement remains in effect.

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Libra.

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To bring (items) to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights.

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To make (concepts) agree.

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To hold (an object or objects) precariously; to support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling.

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I balanced my mug of coffee on my knee.

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To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.

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(dancing) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally.

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to balance partners

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To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass.

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to balance the boom mainsail

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To make the credits and debits of (an account) correspond.

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This final payment, or credit, balances the account.

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To be in equilibrium.

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To have matching credits and debits.

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To weigh in a balance.

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To hesitate or fluctuate.

The balance of the weekend went well after a slow start.

The balance will be maintained.

The current balance owed was over four hundred dollars.

It was like walking in water and I almost lost my balance but after a few steps, I could control my motion pretty well.

He couldn't catch his balance and steadied himself against a rock.

She caught her balance against the arm of a sofa.

She tried to balance herself only to find herself toppling over and over and over down a stairwell.

You… you're meant to maintain a vital balance in this world.

The maid lost her balance and toppled over.

The Deans jumped at every ring of the phone for the balance of the afternoon, but there was no further word.

Thanks to my wife's calm and nurturing manner the balance of the morning passed peacefully.

The balance of our afternoon and evening was spent in domestic bliss.

With lightning speed, he caught the end of the whip in his hand and jerked violently, catching her off balance and pulling her off her feet.

We spent the balance of our time formulating what I should say to Merrill Cooms and pouring over Internet maps.

She leapt up, knocking the prisoner off balance in her haste to escape.

I know the list of nefarious uses of the Internet—but on balance, we are building it for good purposes.

Kutuzov did not understand what Europe, the balance of power, or Napoleon meant.

It sort of wreaks havoc on the balance.

She would balance him out.

She caught him, and they careened into the side of the car before he caught his balance.

He dropped to his knees, unable to battle both influences for his balance.

A'Ran met her blows gently, redirecting them without affecting her balance.

She bounced between them, unable to catch her balance.

Depending on the fact that the electrical conductivity of a metallic conductor is decreased by heat, it consists of two strips of platinum, arranged to form the two arms of a Wheatstone bridge; one strip being exposed to a source of radiation from which the other is shielded, the heat causes a change in the resistance of one arm, the balance of the bridge is destroyed, and a deflection is marked on the galvanometer.

The body to be tested is placed in a special scale-pan, suspended by a fine wire from the arm of a balance inside an enclosure which can be filled with steam at atmospheric pressure.

The religion of the country is so overwhelmingly Mahommedan that out of every 100,000 inhabitants 94,403 are Mussulman, and only 4706 Hindus, while the balance is made up by Christians, Sikhs and other denominations.

These investigators began their work in 1900, and at an early stage introduced two characteristic features - a horizontal rudder in front for steering in the vertical plane, and the flexing or bending of the ends of the main supporting aeroplanes as a means of maintaining the structure in proper balance.

In the splendid balance of his nature the Virgilian longing, rerum cognoscere causas, could never indeed wholly silence the call to exercise his active powers.

I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old" (December 12, 1826).

A certain balance had to be struck in most cases between the greed and selfishness of the class of landowners and the necessary requirements and human aspirations of the subjects.

Rapidly falling temperature must (and visibly does) produce furious motions which wholly outrun mere restoration of statical balance.

Hence loss does not go on without regeneration, and we are apparently at a stage when there is an approximate balance between them.

In consequence of the radiation of heat the whole body will be more condensed than before, but whether it is hotter or colder than before will depend on whether the contraction set up is more or less than enough to restore an exact balance.

It wasn't as if she were wearing a bikini, and her only physical attributes were a flat abdomen and smooth curves – well, those and her breasts, but they were over proportioned - out of balance, so to speak.

He was trying to maintain a balance between taking care of business and her happiness.

The Grey God existed for a very short time, and he was supposed to balance out the two worlds.

That she'd had a god off balance for so long—and it took losing her magic for him to finally score—was an accomplishment.

She rose and stumbled forward again, cursed as she ran into a larger boulder, then lost her balance and rolled down a sudden dip.

Finally he retrieved his balance and got his foot over the back of the horse and down the other side into the stirrup.

Trying to balance her time between the children, Alex and her guests proved more difficult than she imagined.

Something brown lunged from the brush near her face and she screamed, throwing herself back so hard she lost her balance and fell.

At the bottom she staggered to retain her balance.

He knew Jule was able to balance his alliance with the White God and his alliance with Xander.

Jonny hadn't had the ability to lead or commit evil or balance Damian, when Xander and Jenn entered the picture.

The anatomical construction of these plants presents many peculiarities which have given rise to discussion as to the allocation of the order among the dicotyledons or among the monocotyledons, the general balance of opinion being in favour of the former view.

The chief success of the government lay in the field of foreign politics, where it prudently avoided entanglement in the ambitious schemes of Hellenistic monarchs, but gained great prestige by energetic interference against aggressors who threatened the existing balance of power or the security of the seas.

During the twenty years preceding the census of 1901 there was a fall in the death rate of 3.4 per thousand, of which, however, 1 per thousand is attributable to the decline in the birth rate, the balance being attributable to improved sanitary conditions.

The Common wealth is empowered to retain one-fourth of the net revenue from customs and excise, the balance must be handed back to the states.

Such would be an admission by one who is in account with another that there is a balance due from him.

Owing to the difficulty of maintaining perfect balance on duplexed cables, curb sending is not now used, but the signals are transmitted by means of an apparatus similar to the Wheatstone automatic transmitter used on land lines and differing from the latter only in regard to the alphabet employed; the signals from the transmitter actuate a relay having heavy armatures which in turn transmit the signals to the cable; this arrangement gives very firm signals, a point of great importance for good working.