Balance (n.) An apparatus for weighing. |
Balance (n.) Act of weighing mentally |
Balance (n.) Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales. |
Balance (n.) The state of being in equipoise |
Balance (n.) An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account |
Balance (n.) A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary). |
Balance (n.) The constellation Libra. |
Balance (n.) The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September. |
Balance (n.) A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i., S. |
Balance (n.) To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights |
Balance (n.) To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling |
Balance (n.) To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion |
Balance (n.) To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc. |
Balance (n.) To settle and adjust, as an account |
Balance (n.) To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal |
Balance (n.) To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits |
Balance (n.) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally |
Balance (n.) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass |
Balance (v. i.) To have equal weight on each side |
Balance (v. i.) To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force |
Balance (v. i.) To move toward a person or couple, and then back. |
Balance wheel () A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock |
Balance wheel () A ratchet-shaped scape wheel, which in some watches is acted upon by the axis of the balance wheel proper (in those watches called a balance). |
Balance wheel () A wheel which imparts regularity to the movements of any engine or machine |
Dough (n.) Paste of bread |
Dough (n.) Anything of the consistency of such paste. |
Dough-baked (a.) Imperfectly baked |
Dough-faced (a.) Easily molded |
Dough-kneaded (a.) Like dough |
Patch (n.) A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole. |
Patch (n.) A small piece of anything used to repair a breach |
Patch (n.) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty. |
Patch (n.) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore. |
Patch (n.) Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch |
Patch (n.) A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting. |
Patch (n.) A paltry fellow |
Patch (v. t.) To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like |
Patch (v. t.) To mend with pieces |
Patch (v. t.) To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches. |
Patch (v. t.) To make of pieces or patches |
analytical balance chemical balance | a beam balance of great precision used in quantitative chemical analysis |
balance | a scale for weighing, depends on pull of gravity |
balance beam beam | a gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts |
balance wheel balance | a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine, especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat |
bandage patch | a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body |
beam balance | a balance consisting of a lever with two equal arms and a pan suspended from each arm |
counterweight counterbalance counterpoise balance equalizer equaliser | a weight that balances another weight |
electronic balance | a balance that generates a current proportional to the displacement of the pan |
estradiol patch | a transdermal patch that allows estradiol to be absorbed into the blood stream, used in treating estrogen deficiency and in hormone replacement therapy |
eyepatch patch | a protective cloth covering for an injured eye |
kitchen garden vegetable garden vegetable patch | a small garden where vegetables are grown |
mend patch darn | sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment), her stockings had several mends |
patch | a piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole |
patch pocket | a flat pocket sewn to the outside of a garment |
shoulder patch | patch worn on the shoulder of a military uniform to indicate rank |
spring balance spring scale | a balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring |
temporary hookup patch | a connection intended to be used for a limited time |
torsion balance | measuring instrument designed to measure small forces by the torsion they exert on a thin wire |
transdermal patch skin patch | a medicated adhesive pad placed on the skin for absorption of a time released dose of medication into the bloodstream |
spot speckle dapple patch fleck maculation | a small contrasting part of something, a bald spot, a leopard's spots, a patch of clouds, patches of thin ice, a fleck of red |
symmetry symmetricalness correspondence balance | (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation, exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane |
proportion proportionality balance | harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design), in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance- John Ruskin |
soul patch Attilio | a small patch of facial hair just below the lower lip and above the chin |
Peyer's patch Peter's gland | any of several lymph nodes in the walls of the intestines near the junction of the ileum and colon |
equilibrium labyrinthine sense vestibular sense sense of balance sense of equilibrium | a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head |
patch test | a test to determine allergic sensitivity by applying small pads soaked with allergen to the unbroken skin |
patch | a short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program |
pastry pastry dough | a dough of flour and water and shortening |
dough | a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll |
bread dough | any of various doughs for bread |
plot plot of land plot of ground patch | a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation, a bean plot, a cabbage patch, a briar patch |
Libra Libra the Balance Balance Libra the Scales | the seventh sign of the zodiac, the sun is in this sign from about September to October |
Libra Balance | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra |
brier brierpatch brier patch | tangled mass of prickly plants |
boodle bread cabbage clams dinero dough gelt kale lettuce lolly lucre loot moolah pelf scratch shekels simoleons sugar wampum | informal terms for money |
balance sheet | a record of the financial situation of an institution on a particular date by listing its assets and the claims against those assets |
balance | equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account |
balance | the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account |
balance of trade trade balance visible balance trade gap | the difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of merchandise, a nation's balance of trade is favorable when its exports exceed its imports |
compensating balance offsetting balance | a minimum credit balance that a bank may require a borrower to keep on deposit as a condition for granting a loan, a common requirement for establishing a line of credit at a bank, the compensating balance increases the effective interest rate to the bank since the net amount loaned is reduced but the interest paid is unchanged |
invisible balance | the difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of services and payments of property incomes |
balance of payments balance of international payments | a system of recording all of a country's economic transactions with the rest of the world over a period of one year, a favorable balance of payments exists when more payments are coming in than going out |
trial balance | a balance of debits and credits in double-entry bookkeeping, drawn up to test their equality |
acid-base equilibrium acid-base balance | (physiology) the normal equilibrium between acids and alkalis in the body, with a normal acid-base balance in the body the blood is slightly alkaline |
remainder balance residual residue residuum rest | something left after other parts have been taken away, there was no remainder, he threw away the rest, he took what he wanted and I got the balance |
balance equilibrium equipoise counterbalance | equality of distribution |
balance | a state of equilibrium |
balance of power | an equilibrium of power between nations |
dynamic balance | (aeronautics) the state of equilibrium in which centrifugal forces due to a rotating mass (e.g., a propeller) do not produce force in the shaft and so vibration is reduced |
electrolyte balance | an equilibrium between the amounts of electrolytes (as calcium and sodium and potassium) that is essential for normal health and functioning |