(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.
Suspend
Definition:
(n.) To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.
(n.) To make to depend; as, God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.
(n.) To cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding; to interrupt; to delay; to stay.
(n.) To hold in an undetermined or undecided state; as, to suspend one's judgment or opinion.
(n.) To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.; as, to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club.
(n.) To cause to cease for a time from operation or effect; as, to suspend the habeas corpus act; to suspend the rules of a legislative body.
(n.) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
(v. i.) To cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a commercial firm or a bank).
Example Sentences:
(1) The penetration of (22)Na was not prevented by the presence of metabolic inhibitors or by 500 mm NaCl in the suspending medium.
(2) The hypothesis that experimentally determined survival times of Treponema pallidum in stored donor blood could be related to the number of treponemes initially present in the treponeme-blood mixtures was investigated by inoculating rabbits with three graded doses of treponemes suspended in donor blood and stored at 4 degrees C for various periods of time.
(3) Circular muscle strips from the opossum esophageal body obtained 3-5 cm above the esophagogastric junction were suspended in organ baths for measurement of isometric tension.
(4) Despite the nearly anaerobic state of the ascites tumor fluid in vivo, cancer cells suspended in this fluid oxidized FFA at least as fast as they do in vitro under aerobic conditions.
(5) Rings of isolated coronary and femoral arteries (without endothelium) were suspended for isometric tension recording in organ chambers filled with modified Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate solution.
(6) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(7) "We were very disappointed when the DH decided to suspend printing Reduce the Risk, a vital resource in the prevention of cot death in the UK", said Francine Bates, chief executive of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, which helped produce the booklet.
(8) This combined process decreased by 63% the decimal reduction times for the heat treatment when the organism was suspended in buffer and by 43% when suspended in milk.
(9) Smith manages to get a suspended possession order, postponing eviction, provided Evans (who has a new job) pays her rent on time and pays back her arrears at a rate of £5 a week.
(10) Roberts can't really explain why Wu Lyf's lyrics are full of neo-biblical imagery – all blood and fire and crowns – nor why one of their main insignia is a cross, but he does admit that he got suspended from secondary school for putting a picture of Ho Chi Minh's face on Christ's body.
(11) The Eurostoxx banking index was up 1.7% Shares in Italy’s oldest bank, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, were suspended after falling 15% after the EBA revealed it was one of nine Italian institutions to fail the tests.
(12) Subway service was partially suspended and police blocked off the streets where the shooting occurred.
(13) In spite of this fundamental disagreement, they were both relieved that President Obama has suspended his plan to launch missiles against Syria .
(14) Intact suspended cells or lysed cells convert angiotensin I to angiotensin II, inactivate bradykinin, and hydrolyze hippuryldiglycine to hippuric acid and diglycine.
(15) Since early inhibition was not observed when E. coli cultures were inoculated with R17 bacteriophage suspended in phosphate buffer, early inhibition is not an intrinsic feature of R17 phage infection.
(16) The test organism, grown under anaerobic conditions in Trypticase soy broth, was diluted in buffered salt solution, and about 2 x 10(4) cells were suspended in 10 ml of an aerated broth.
(17) January 2011 • Ian Edmondson, the News of the World's assistant editor (news), is suspended following a "serious allegation" relating to phone hacking during Andy Coulson's editorship of the paper.
(18) Graphic photos of Said's injuries circulated online and became a rallying cause for activists opposed to Egypt's 29-year-old emergency law, which suspends many basic civil liberties and provides effective immunity for the security services before the courts.
(19) The conclusions are the following: (1) The storage of suspended erythrocytes at 2 degrees C up to 24 h or at 37 degrees C for 30 min did not change the water exchange time significantly, even if Mn2+ was present in the medium.
(20) The officer remains suspended and is expected to face a disciplinary hearing.