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 |
Equilibrium (n.) Equality of weight or force |
Equilibrium (n.) A level position |
Equilibrium (n.) A balancing of the mind between motives or reasons, with consequent indecision and doubt. |
Granite State () New Hampshire |
State (n.) The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time. |
State (n.) Rank |
State (n.) Condition of prosperity or grandeur |
State (n.) Appearance of grandeur or dignity |
State (n.) A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais |
State (n.) Estate, possession. |
State (n.) A person of high rank. |
State (n.) Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character |
State (n.) The principal persons in a government. |
State (n.) The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country |
State (n.) A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic. |
State (n.) A political body, or body politic |
State (n.) In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited. |
State (n.) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease |
State (a.) Stately. |
State (a.) Belonging to the state, or body politic |
State (v. t.) To set |
State (v. t.) To express the particulars of |
State (n.) A statement |
Steady (n.) Firm in standing or position |
Steady (n.) Constant in feeling, purpose, or pursuit |
Steady (n.) Regular |
state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes, the current state of knowledge, his state of health, in a weak financial state |
change of state | the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics |
Secretary of State | the position of the head of the State Department, the position of Secretary of State was established in |
state-sponsored terrorism | terrorism practiced by a government against its own people or in support of international terrorism |
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 |
beam balance | a balance consisting of a lever with two equal arms and a pan suspended from each arm |
chair of state | a ceremonial chair for an exalted or powerful person |
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 |
Empire State Building | a skyscraper built in New York City in ,feet tall |
expressway freeway motorway pike state highway superhighway throughway thruway | a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic |
Ohio State University | a university in Columbus, Ohio |
spring balance spring scale | a balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring |
state prison | a prison maintained by a state of the U.S. |
torsion balance | measuring instrument designed to measure small forces by the torsion they exert on a thin wire |
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 |
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 |
cognitive state state of mind | the state of a person's cognitive processes |
religious trance ecstatic state | a trance induced by intense religious devotion, does not show reduced bodily functions that are typical of other trances |
equilibrium law law of chemical equilibrium | (chemistry) the principle that (at chemical equilibrium) in a reversible reaction the ratio of the rate of the forward reaction to the rate of the reverse reaction is a constant for that reaction |
steady state theory continuous creation theory | (cosmology) the theory that the universe maintains a constant average density with matter created to fill the void left by galaxies that are receding from each other, the steady state theory has been abandoned in favor of the big bang theory |
punctuated equilibrium theory of punctuated equilibrium | a theory of evolution holding that evolutionary change in the fossil record came in fits and starts rather than in a steady process of slow change |
solid-state physics | the branch of physics that studies the properties of materials in the solid state: electrical conduction in crystals of semiconductors and metals, superconductivity, photoconductivity |
thermostatics thermodynamics of equilibrium | the aspect of thermodynamics concerned with thermal equilibrium |
state's evidence | evidence for the prosecution in criminal proceedings |
Kaplan Group Association of Islamic Groups and Communities Caliphate State | a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany, seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran |
authoritarian state authoritarian regime | a government that concentrates political power in an authority not responsible to the people |
State Department | a department of government in one of thestates |
Department of State United States Department of State State Department State DoS | the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies, the Department of State was created in |
state nation country land commonwealth res publica body politic | a politically organized body of people under a single government, the state has elected a new president, African nations, students who had come to the nation's capitol, the country's largest manufacturer, an industrialized land |
rogue state renegade state rogue nation | a state that does not respect other states in its international actions |
church-state | a state ruled by religious authority |
city state city-state | a state consisting of a sovereign city |
welfare state | a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc. |
puppet government puppet state pupet regime | a government that is appointed by and whose affairs are directed by an outside authority that may impose hardships on those governed |
state | the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state, the state has lowered its income tax |
state government | the government of a state in the United States |
totalitarian state totalitation regime | a government that subordinates the individual to the state and strictly controls all aspects of life by coercive measures |
supreme court state supreme court high court | the highest court in most states of the United States |
state capitalism | an economic system that is primarily capitalistic but there is some degree of government ownership of the means of production |
state socialism | an economic system in which the government owns most means of production but some degree of private capitalism is allowed |
state bank | a bank chartered by a state rather than by the federal government |
police state | a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police) |
Committee for State Security KGB Soviet KGB | formerly the predominant security police organization of Soviet Russia |
narco-state | an area that has been taken over and is controlled and corrupted by drug cartels and where law enforcement is effectively nonexistent, this Mexican town has become a narco-state that ships pounds of cocaine to the United States every day |
state line state boundary | the boundary between two states |