(n.) Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate.
(n.) Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.
(n.) The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness.
(n.) An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account.
(n.) A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary).
(n.) The constellation Libra.
(n.) The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September.
(n.) A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i., S.
(n.) To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance.
(n.) To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope.
(n.) To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize.
(n.) To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
(n.) To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them.
(n.) To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal; -- said of an item; as, this payment, or credit, balances the account.
(n.) To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits; as, to balance a set of books.
(n.) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners.
(n.) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail.
(v. i.) To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance.
(v. i.) To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate.
(v. i.) To move toward a person or couple, and then back.
Example Sentences:
(1) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(2) Patients had improved sitting balance and endurance after surgery.
(3) Postpartum management is directed toward decreasing vasospasm and central nervous system irritability and maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance.
(4) "And in my judgment, when the balance is struck, the factors for granting relief in this case easily outweigh the factors against.
(5) Under these conditions, arterial pressure and sodium balance remained stable.
(6) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
(7) Some dental applications of the pressure measuring sheet, such as the measurement of biting pressure and balance during normal and unilateral biting, were examined.
(8) Knapman concluded that the 40-year-old designer, whose full name was Lee Alexander McQueen, "killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed".
(9) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
(10) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
(11) Accumulating evidence indicates that for most tumors, the switch to the angiogenic phenotype depends upon the outcome of a balance between angiogenic stimulators and angiogenic inhibitors, both of which may be produced by tumor cells and perhaps by certain host cells.
(12) For routine use, 50 mul of 12% BTV SRBC, 0.1 ml of a spleen cell suspension, and 0.5 ml of 0.5% agarose in a balanced salt solution were mixed and plated on a microscope slide precoated with 0.1% aqueous agarose.
(13) These results suggest that a lowered basal energy expenditure and a reduced glucose-induced thermogenesis contribute to the positive energy balance which results in relapse of body weight gain after cessation of a hypocaloric diet.
(14) Whenever you are ill and a medicine is prescribed for you and you take the medicine until balance is achieved in you and then you put that medicine down.” Farrakhan does not dismiss the doctrine of the past, but believes it is no longer appropriate for the present.
(15) Temperature, heart rate and respiratory rate as well as enzymatic activities (CK, CK-MB, AST, LDH), and characteristics of base-acid-balance (pH, BE, pCO2, Lactate) were taken from 52 pigs during the period shortly before and after they gave birth.
(16) The cells were taken from cultures in low-density balanced exponential growth, and the experiments were performed quickly so that the bacteria were in a uniform physiological state at the time of measurement.
(17) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .
(18) Blockade of beta-adrenoceptors interferes with haemodynamic and metabolic adaptations and ion balance during dynamic exercise.
(19) The observation of positive side-effects in these cases balances this possibility to some extent.
(20) While it’s not unknown to see such self-balancing mini scooters on the pavement, under legal guidance reiterated on Monday by the Crown Prosecution Service all such “personal transporters”, including hoverboards and Segways , are banned from the footpath.
Juggle
Definition:
(v. i.) To play tricks by sleight of hand; to cause amusement and sport by tricks of skill; to conjure.
(v. i.) To practice artifice or imposture.
(v. t.) To deceive by trick or artifice.
(n.) A trick by sleight of hand.
(n.) An imposture; a deception.
(n.) A block of timber cut to a length, either in the round or split.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cooled by a floor fan, nurses, doctors and support staff in blue scrubs move through the small anteroom next to the isolation ward to juggle the needs of the desperately ill patients inside as a stream of people knock on the canvas door asking for updates on their loved ones.
(2) The low cost of childcare, generous parental leave and the absence of a long-hours culture has meant that juggling a work-family balance is as much an issue for fathers as mothers in many Danish families.
(3) And despite her approachability, interviewers know not to ask her how she juggles everything.
(4) Juggling maintaining a high-quality blog or YouTube channel with student life can be tough, so you need to be constantly on top of deadlines and emails.
(5) I am expert in navigating the systems, on clawing my way to some work and juggling the admin to stay in that work.
(6) A part-time mum working in Centrelink or Medicare faces the loss of rights that allow her to juggle work with her family life; her job security is under threat and all for a cut in her pay packet.
(7) As employed women juggle the responsibilities of employment and family caregiving, many experience stress and fatigue from the competing demands on their time and energy.
(8) Similarly: Don't use your toaster as a bathtub toy, don't juggle live hand grenades and never put salt in your eyes .
(9) Luis Suarez will not be allowed to do his juggling seal routine at the Nou Camp, on account of him being banned and all that .
(10) Over in Atlanta, Georgia, Jaha Dukureh, a 24-year-old woman originally from the Gambia, was juggling a full-time job in a bank with motherhood.
(11) And that will no doubt please the leadership, which has to juggle rigorous internal policy debate (sometimes disagreement) with the challenges of striking deals with the Conservatives on every government action.
(12) As any graduate will remember, those years at university were just as much about juggling a melee of friendships as it was about studying.
(13) My husband went to the doctor the other day and a two-minute drive took 35 minutes.” Across the street, Aileen Brown at Eyhorne osteopathic clinic has been juggling cancellations and stranded staff for the past six weeks.
(14) Jeong, who worked as a doctor before switching to acting, will play a brilliant but insensitive doc juggling work and family life.
(15) Such juggling of information demands that the critical care nurse be alert to the subtle changes occurring within the patient, thereby allowing sound decisions based on astute nursing assessment.
(16) But I've heard Evan play changes in his own way just the same (on Monk tunes in a tribute to Steve Lacy for example) and develop a kind of parallel, rhythmically related and appropriately phrased line that isn't juggling the related notes of the chords, but is a fascinating interpretation of the original theme in its own way.
(17) Barry Glendenning juggles a ball and transfer tittle-tattle as he prepares to sit in the Big D-Day Chair.
(18) This week, Victoria was chatting backstage about the "huge juggling act" of working motherhood, and singing the praises of her trompe l'oeil skirt-and-shirt dresses: "It's great to have something that you can just stand in, zip up and go."
(19) Photograph: Sky Sports 8) Spurs to show which league they really want to win When the draw was made for the Europa League last 16 and Spurs were pitted against Borussia Dortmund, Rémi Garde could have been forgiven for thinking that his Aston Villa side may have faced a slightly weakened Tottenham Hotspur team as Mauricio Pochettino juggled the demands of a testing European tie and a Premier League title challenge.
(20) A s if juggling the chairing of this year's MediaGuardian Edinburgh international television festival , becoming a mother and editing ITV News during a general election year were not enough, Deborah Turness is also considering joining a dance troupe.