What's the difference between counterbalance and counterbalanced?
Counterbalance
Definition:
(v. t.) To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.
(n.) A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another
(n.) A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the wheel
(n.) A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stations such as al-Jazeera English have been welcomed as a counterbalance to Western media parochialism.
(2) To counterbalance integration against the threat of riots is basically the Tebbit test without the sport.
(3) Dose dependency of disposition and absorption counterbalance each other in the usual dose range.
(4) This study suggests that the changes in cholesterol metabolism after jejunoileostomy are dependent on the length of functioning jejunum and ileum in such a way that the effects of the two segments counterbalance each other.
(5) A large turn-out of Democratic supporters is needed in working-class cities in the north of Ohio to counterbalance Republican support in the largely rural areas to the south.
(6) In contrast, AVP sensitizes the sympathetic control of the mesenteric vascular bed to counterbalance its potent local vasoconstrictor effects.
(7) The results show that the ability to support survival of primary cultured hepatocytes is not a common property of liver-tumor-promoter barbiturates but is a common property of some barbiturates with high lipophilicity, and that the maintenance of hepatocytes by phenobarbital or amobarbital is not due to a counterbalance of stimulated proliferation and death of the cells.
(8) It is also, still, an important counterbalance to the power of BBC television, above all BBC1.
(9) Ahmadinejad's address to heads of state at the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), in Kazakhstan could deepen suspicions that the bloc is intended as a counterbalance to US influence across the region.
(10) Inhibition of VPA beta-oxidation by salicylate was sufficient to counterbalance the increased elimination of VPA as its conjugates and explains why total clearance of VPA after salicylate remains unchanged even though the free fraction of VPA is increased.
(11) The major effects of ADH on urinary acidification serve at least to counterbalance disturbing consequences on urinary ammonia excretion of physiological variations in the urinary flow rate.
(12) Quantitation of the contribution of each kidney, by means of a 99mTc-DTPA scan, showed that the glomerular filtration rate of the native kidneys had decreased to counterbalance the added function.
(13) It is known that the halophilic green alga Dunaliella tertiolecta grows under hypertonic conditions (with NaCl), which induce the intracellular accumulation of high concentrations of glycerol in order to counterbalance the osmotic change.
(14) Those behind the deal said they hoped to use the SCMP to paint a more positive picture of China and provide a counterbalance to the western media’s “too ideological and biased” coverage.
(15) The importance of the Bainbridge reflex as a counterbalance to the baroreceptor reflex is discussed.
(16) For both reactions the activation enthalpies and entropies change markedly with menaquinone chain length but counterbalance each other, resulting in activation free energies at ambient temperature independent of the menaquinone tail.
(17) It is suggested that K+ elevation counterbalance both PRA decrease and ANF increase to be responsible for the absence of change in plasma ALD during beta-blockade.
(18) Turn Britain's regions into subsidiaries of London, raze its business and political elites, and you have hardly any counterbalance to the might of the City.
(19) Simultaneous hemodilution with hydroxyethyl starch can counterbalance the already existing changes.
(20) However, the animals consistently retained sodium, and the high plasma levels of ANF were unable to counterbalance the sodium-retaining actions of DOCA.
Counterbalanced
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Counterbalance
Example Sentences:
(1) These data indicate that increased procoagulant activity observed in various lung diseases is not counterbalanced by TFPI.
(2) The time course of thymidine and deoxycytidine pool saturation suggests however that the effects of K2Cr2O7 on plasma membrane permeability are partially counterbalanced by modifications of pool size deriving from the concomitant alteration of steps of nucleoside metabolism separate from nucleoside uptake.
(3) Administered the WISC and WISC-R in a counterbalanced design to 20 black child psychiatric outpatients.
(4) The study was performed over two sessions with drug condition and list of stimulus materials counterbalanced.
(5) Ss then were retested on death anxiety measures, forms of which were counterbalanced within groups.
(6) The relative percentages of total saturated fatty acids in 1,2-diacyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine remained constant during liver development; however, the levels of both main saturated acids, palmitic and stearic acids, were reciprocally counterbalanced as the age of the embryo proceeded.
(7) The negative inotropy of antiarrhythmic drugs is often counterbalanced by the simultaneous decrease in blood pressure leading to an afterload reduction.
(8) Two reservation groups, matched for age and sex, received four administration of a personal (Piers-Harris) and an Indian self-concept scale, in a repeated measures counterbalanced design, varying language and order.
(9) Ss were re-tested after 5 years following identical experimental and counterbalancing method to the pre-test.
(10) In conclusion, 1) in overnight fasted subjects, ethanol does not cause hypoglycemia because its inhibitory effect on Ra is counterbalanced by equal inhibition of Rd;2) basal Ra and Rd are maximally inhibited already by small ethanol doses, whereas inhibition of insulin-stimulated glucose disposal requires a moderate ethanol dose; and 3) acetate is not the mediator of ethanol-induced insulin resistance.
(11) In each, volunteers received alcohol (1 ml per kg body weight) in one session and no alcohol in another in counterbalanced order.
(12) Active and placebo dose intervals were presented in an alternating fashion, with order of exposure counterbalanced between groups.
(13) In one session, subjects smoked a cigarette prior to each CPT; in the other session they did not smoke (session order counterbalanced).
(14) The first and final sessions were preceded by no injection, the second and sixth by saline [or the inactive trans isomer (2.5 micrograms) in the flupenthixol experiment] and the middle 3 sessions by doses of cis-flupenthixol (1, 10, 25 micrograms in 0.5 microliter), quinpirole (3, 6, 12 micrograms) or SKF 38393 (2, 4, 8 micrograms), the order being counterbalanced across rats.
(15) The lack of deterioration in performance under the combination of CO and low oxygen suggested that the increased severity of the stress resulted in activation of compensatory mechanisms which counterbalanced the decreased O2 available to the tissues.
(16) Counterbalancing forces in the present political and medical environment tending simultaneously toward greater and lesser regulation are discussed.
(17) Generally, it was evident that ciprofloxacin was more potent on a weight basis than the other quinolones, but this difference was counterbalanced by a higher achievable serum concentration for ofloxacin.
(18) Awakenings were made, in counterbalanced order, from slow wave sleep (SWS--stage 3-4 and stage 4) and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.
(19) In the flight simulator phase, posthypnotic suggestions for increased vigilance performance were administered with counterbalancing for hypnosis-no-hypnosis order conditions.
(20) The net fluxes between ICF and ECF were found to be counterbalanced by the circadian rhythm in urinary potassium excretion.