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 |
Load
(v.) A burden |
Load
(v.) The quantity which can be carried or drawn in some specified way |
Load
(v.) That which burdens, oppresses, or grieves the mind or spirits |
Load
(v.) A particular measure for certain articles, being as much as may be carried at one time by the conveyance commonly used for the article measured |
Load
(v.) The charge of a firearm |
Load
(v.) Weight or violence of blows. |
Load
(v.) The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working. |
Load
(v. t.) To lay a load or burden on or in, as on a horse or in a cart |
Load
(v. t.) To adulterate or drug |
Load
(v. t.) To magnetize. |
workload
work load | work that a person is expected to do in a specified time |
| case load | the number of cases handled in a given period of time (as by a court or agency) |
| load-shedding | cutting off the electric current on certain lines when the demand becomes greater than the supply |
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 |
cargo
lading
freight
load loading
payload
shipment
consignment | goods carried by a large vehicle |
counterweight
counterbalance
counterpoise
balance equalizer
equaliser | a weight that balances another weight |
| dead load | a constant load on a structure (e.g. a bridge) due to the weight of the supported structure itself |
| electronic balance | a balance that generates a current proportional to the displacement of the pan |
live load
superload | a variable load on a structure (e.g. a bridge) such as moving traffic |
load
loading burden | weight to be borne or conveyed |
| load | electrical device to which electrical power is delivered |
spring balance
spring scale | a balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring |
| torsion balance | measuring instrument designed to measure small forces by the torsion they exert on a thin wire |
warhead
payload load | the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents |
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 |
burden load
encumbrance
incumbrance
onus | an onerous or difficult concern, the burden of responsibility, that's a load off my mind |
load line
Plimsoll line
Plimsoll mark
Plimsoll | waterlines to show the level the water should reach when the ship is properly loaded |
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 |
lode
load | a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks |
| load | the power output of a generator or power plant |
| 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 |
| load | an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate, he got a load on and started a brawl |
load
loading | a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time, the system broke down under excessive loads |
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 |
| load factor | (aeronautics) the ratio of an external load to the weight of the aircraft (measured in g) |
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 |
| nitrogen balance | the balance between the amount of nitrogen taken in (to the soil or the body) and the amount given off (lost or excreted) |
mental soundness
mental balance | the healthy psychological state of someone with good judgment |
| balance-of-payments problem | an economic problem caused by payments for imports being greater than receipts for exports |
load adulterate
stretch f dilute debase | corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance, often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones, adulterate liquor |
| pack load down | load with a pack |