What's the difference between counterweight and poise?

Counterweight


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Capitalism carries disequilibrium within itself and there is only one counterweight: politics.
  • (2) Nevertheless, the buoyancy-mass relationship revealed that they maintain the same degree of positive buoyancy (approximately 10% above the neutral level) at surface as do Korean women divers who adjust counterweights.
  • (3) Lacan's more structural approach to the inner world provides an important counterweight to Kohut's narrow preoccupation with the two-person field, while Kohut's concept of maternal mirroring lends a humane dimension to the icy realms of Lacan's intellectual structures.
  • (4) At the same time, they have to hope that they still have appeal to some moderate, centrist voters as a counterweight and restraint on the red tribe to their left and the blue brigade on their right.
  • (5) And with its credo to keep the state small and its belief in the power of the individual, it is – certainly for Berlin – a reliable counterweight to the French.” Despite all the warm words Merkel and Cameron will say about each other following their lunchtime encounter, the Rhein Zeitung from Koblenz warns Cameron in an editorial that he is going to be “taught a lesson” in Berlin.
  • (6) Development of a prone-position cockpit with a counterweighted, forward-looking head support plus optical-electronically aided all-directional visibility is the most physiologic, safest, and surest way to achieve this goal.
  • (7) President George Bush saw India as a potential counterweight to China and backed a controversial civil nuclear agreement with Delhi.
  • (8) Since then, he has found himself lauded as the more earthy counterweight to his mentor and writing partner Abbas Kiarostami.He plays quiet Georges Braque to his friend's more high-profile Picasso.
  • (9) Scotland would be a counterweight to London's huge, overbearing influence over the British economy.
  • (10) Trump’s lack of concise policy on China has led governments in south-east Asia to wonder if they should still look the US as a counterweight to Beijing if he wins and abandons the “pivot” policy.
  • (11) The practice is a counterweight to the jagged peaks and valleys of the human experience.
  • (12) According to Dr Claudia Neusüss of Berlin's Humboldt University, one reason for the book's German success is its role as a 'counterweight' to TV shows such as Germany's Next Top Model, hosted by supermodel Heidi Klum.
  • (13) Vehicles would climb out of the gravity well along a cable anchored to the equator and held under tension by centrifugal force on a counterweight tens of thousands of kilometers high.
  • (14) He has been a counterweight to Steve Hilton, Cameron's more visionary director of strategy, and architect of the "big society".
  • (15) In both cases, adaptation is associated with receptor modification that acts as a counterweight to changed external conditions.
  • (16) This document is a counterweight to claims that Hamas is an irrational, fanatical and bloodthirsty group intent on murdering all Jews.
  • (17) And what of the countries who supported Habré because they regarded him as a counterweight to Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi?
  • (18) "This is softer than expected and, while by no means dashing hopes of a return to positive growth in Q4, cautions against expecting much in the way of near-term impetus from the production sector – this as limited demand at home provides a counterweight to the pick-up in external orders being underwritten by the weakness of the pound," said Richard McGuire at RBC Capital Markets.
  • (19) (I say they, not we, because the Guardian is always a puny counterweight to these massed ranks on the right).
  • (20) The EC document also challenges Universal's claim that piracy will act as a counter measure to stop any one player controlling the digital music market, and that internet giants such as Apple, Amazon and Spotify have enough power to act as a counterweight to a music company of the enlarged group's size.

Poise


Definition:

  • (v.) Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness.
  • (v.) The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed.
  • (v.) The state of being balanced by equal weight or power; equipoise; balance; equilibrium; rest.
  • (v.) That which causes a balance; a counterweight.
  • (n.) To balance; to make of equal weight; as, to poise the scales of a balance.
  • (n.) To hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance.
  • (n.) To counterpoise; to counterbalance.
  • (n.) To ascertain, as by the balance; to weigh.
  • (n.) To weigh (down); to oppress.
  • (v. i.) To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With the advent of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), molecular biology is at last poised to enter the clinical microbiology laboratory.
  • (2) Greece standoff over €86bn bailout eases after Brussels deal Read more But while the bailout chiefs are poised to agree on a route map, the journey for the Greek people seems no less long and arduous.
  • (3) The fluidity of myelin subfractions and of pig brain cortical membranes was estimated; the microviscosity of heavy myelin (5.4 poises) and of cortical membranes (5.1 poises) was similar and less than that of medium (7.8 poises) and light (8.2 poises) myelin.
  • (4) Manchester United poised to trigger Pedro’s £22m Barcelona release clause Read more Van Gaal wants to strengthen in two areas of the team before the transfer deadline.
  • (5) Control PBL membranes at 37 degrees C exhibited a microviscosity (eta) equal to 1.89 poise (P).
  • (6) If that suggests that Norwegian and Australian voters are poised to reward these centre-left incumbents for their management, think again.
  • (7) Lieutenant General Abdel Wahab al-Saadi said his forces secured the largely agricultural southern neighbourhood of Naymiya, under cover of US-led coalition airstrikes, and are poised to enter the main city.
  • (8) Espírito Santo Financial markets regained some poise on Friday as fears abated about the potential spread of problems at one of Portugal's biggest banks.
  • (9) The Bank said in its quarterly inflation report last month that Brexit poised the most significant threat to the UK’s financial stability.
  • (10) Law is now poised to launch seperate legal proceedings against the paper.
  • (11) Alex Neil’s side belied their newly promoted status with a calm, poised assurance and incision, epitomised by Robbie Brady and the excellent Nathan Redmond.
  • (12) Congress was poised to lose power in Delhi and the major states of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
  • (13) Libyan government forces are poised to attack rebels blockading key oil ports this weekend in an offensive that risks splitting the country apart.
  • (14) With Planned Parenthood poised to take center stage in the spending bill fight, women’s groups have warned that threatening to defund the organization is a “losing strategy” that will have repercussions come election day.
  • (15) Ellman told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “If Network Rail decide to close part of the system down at a busy time of year, they have to be absolutely sure it’s going to work as planned and it is going to reopen as planned.” But she declined to criticise Mark Carne, chief executive of Network Rail, who is poised to receive a bonus of up to £135,000 and who was on holiday during the engineering works.
  • (16) Using two methods of footprinting in vivo, we have determined that PUT3 protein is poised at the promoters of the genes encoding these enzymes and that proline-mediated induction modulates the activity of constitutively bound PUT3.
  • (17) Despite the marauding excellence of the captain, Philip Lahm, and the reflexes and calmed poise of the goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, Germany's weakness is defence.
  • (18) With the advent of better theories on language and reading, and better methods for assessing the structure and function of living human brains and for determining genetic transmission, dyslexia is now poised to become a focal concern of cognitive neuroscience and genetic research.
  • (19) It could be that wearables are poised for a tsunami of success.
  • (20) Announcing that £38bn of troublesome loans would be ringfenced within the bank, the new chief executive Ross McEwan heralded a "resetting" of the often fraught relationship with the Treasury – owner of 81% of the shares – and the Bank of England, which regulates the bank and is poised to impose tougher rules on capital.