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 |
Common sense
() See Common sense, under Sense. |
Sense
(v. t.) A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body |
Sense
(v. t.) Perception by the sensory organs of the body |
Sense
(v. t.) Perception through the intellect |
Sense
(v. t.) Sound perception and reasoning |
Sense
(v. t.) That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion |
Sense
(v. t.) Meaning |
Sense
(v. t.) Moral perception or appreciation. |
Sense
(v. t.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface. |
Sense
(v. t.) To perceive by the senses |
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 |
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 |
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 |
humor humour sense of humor
sense of humour | the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous, she didn't appreciate my humor, you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor |
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 |
purposefulness
sense of purpose | the quality of having a definite purpose |
sense organ
sensory receptor
receptor | an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation |
common sense
good sense
gumption
horse sense
sense mother wit | sound practical judgment, Common sense is not so common, he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples, fortunately she had the good sense to run away |
| road sense | good judgment in avoiding trouble or accidents on the road |
sense sensation sentience
sentiency
sensory faculty | the faculty through which the external world is apprehended, in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing |
modality
sense modality
sensory system | a particular sense |
sight
vision visual sense
visual modality | the ability to see, the visual faculty |
touch sense of touch
skin senses
touch modality
cutaneous senses | the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands), only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us |
hearing
audition
auditory sense
sense of hearing
auditory modality | the ability to hear, the auditory faculty, his hearing was impaired |
taste gustation
sense of taste
gustatory modality | the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth, his cold deprived him of his sense of taste |
smell sense of smell
olfaction
olfactory modality | the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents |
kinesthesis
kinaesthesis
kinesthesia kinaesthesia kinesthetics
muscle sense
sense of movement | the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body |
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 |
somesthesia
somesthesis
somaesthesia
somaesthesis
somatesthesia
somataesthesis
somatosensory system
somatic sensory system
somatic sense | the faculty of bodily perception, sensory systems associated with the body, includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs |
| sense | a general conscious awareness, a sense of security, a sense of happiness, a sense of danger, a sense of self |
| sense of direction | an awareness of your orientation in space |
| sense of responsibility | an awareness of your obligations |
insight
sixth sense | grasping the inner nature of things intuitively |
sensation
esthesis
aesthesis
sense experience
sense impression
sense datum | an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation, a sensation of touch |
| sense | a natural appreciation or ability, a keen musical sense, a good sense of timing |
| sense tagger | a tagging program whose labels indicate the meanings of words or expressions |
sense
signified | the meaning of a word or expression, the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted, the dictionary gave several senses for the word, in the best sense charity is really a duty, the signifier is linked to the signified |
word meaning
word sense
acceptation | the accepted meaning of a word |
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 |
conscience
scruples
moral sense
sense of right and wrong | motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions |
sense of shame
sense of duty | a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility |
Libra
Balance | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra |
| 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 |