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 |
Characterized (imp. & p. p.) of Characterize |
Deposition (n.) The act of depositing or deposing |
Deposition (n.) The act of bringing before the mind |
Deposition (n.) The act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer |
Deposition (n.) That which is deposited |
Deposition (n.) An opinion, example, or statement, laid down or asserted |
Deposition (n.) The act of laying down one's testimony in writing |
Erosion (n.) The act or operation of eroding or eating away. |
Erosion (n.) The state of being eaten away |
Graded (imp. & p. p.) of Grade |
Livery stable () A stable where horses are kept for hire, and where stabling is provided. See Livery, n., 3 (e) (f) & (g). |
Reach (v. i.) To retch. |
Reach (n.) An effort to vomit. |
Reach (v. t.) To extend |
Reach (v. t.) Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand |
Reach (v. t.) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand |
Reach (v. t.) To strike, hit, or touch with a missile |
Reach (v. t.) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to |
Reach (v. t.) To extend to |
Reach (v. t.) To arrive at |
Reach (v. t.) To arrive at by effort of any kind |
Reach (v. t.) To understand |
Reach (v. t.) To overreach |
Reach (v. i.) To stretch out the hand. |
Reach (v. i.) To strain after something |
Reach (v. i.) To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something. |
deposition dethronement | the act of deposing someone, removing a powerful person from a position or office |
flow stream | the act of flowing or streaming, continuous progression |
reach reaching stretch | the act of physically reaching or thrusting out |
stretch | extension to or beyond the ordinary limit, running at full stretch, by no stretch of the imagination, beyond any stretch of his understanding |
deposit deposition | the act of putting something somewhere |
stretch stretching | exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent |
stretch reflex myotactic reflex | reflex contraction of a muscle when an attached tendon is pulled, important in maintaining erect posture |
stablemate stable companion | a horse stabled with another or one of several horses owned by the same person |
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 |
livery stable | stable where horses and vehicles are kept for hire |
spring balance spring scale | a balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring |
stable stalls horse barn | a farm building for housing horses or other livestock |
stable gear saddlery tack | gear for a horse |
stretch | a straightaway section of a racetrack |
stretch pants | trousers made of a stretchy fabric |
torsion balance | measuring instrument designed to measure small forces by the torsion they exert on a thin wire |
stretch mark | a narrow band resulting from tension on the skin (as on abdominal skin after pregnancy) |
stretch stretchiness stretchability | the capacity for being stretched |
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 |
scope range reach orbit compass ambit | an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: the range of a supersonic jet, a piano has a greater range than the human voice, the ambit of municipal legislation, within the compass of this article, within the scope of an investigation, outside the reach of the law, in the political orbit of a world power |
stretch receptor | a receptor in a muscle that responds to stretching of the muscle tissue |
bloodstream blood stream | the blood flowing through the circulatory system |
compass range reach grasp | the limit of capability, within the compass of education |
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 |
stream of consciousness | the continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experience |
stream of consciousness | a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy |
deposition | (law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness, usually conducted in a lawyer's office |
current stream | a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes), the raft floated downstream on the current, he felt a stream of air, the hose ejected a stream of water |
torrent violent stream | a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid), the houses were swept away in the torrent |
stream flow current | dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas, two streams of development run through American history, stream of consciousness, the flow of thought, the current of history |
range reach | the limits within which something can be effective, range of motion, he was beyond the reach of their fire |
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 |
stream watercourse | a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth |
stretch | a large and unbroken expanse or distance, a stretch of highway, a stretch of clear water |
tidal river tidewater river tidal stream tidewater stream | a stream in which the effects of the tide extend far upstream |
Libra Balance | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra |
jet stream | a high-speed high-altitude airstream blowing from west to east near the top of the troposphere, has important effects of the formation of weather fronts |
Gulf stream | a warm ocean current that flows from the Gulf of Mexico northward through the Atlantic Ocean |
meteor shower meteor stream | a transient shower of meteors when a meteor swarm enters the earth's atmosphere |
stream orchid chatterbox giant helleborine Epipactis gigantea | orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf |
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 |