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| Sounds | bae'lahns |
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| Rhymes | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, and 263 more rhymes in ahns at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | A state of equilibrium. |
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| Narrower | tension; electrolyte balance; nitrogen balance |
| Broader | equilibrium |
| Contrary | imbalance, instability, unbalance |
| Verbs | balance; balance; balance |
| Meaning | A scale for weighing. Depends on pull of gravity. |
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| Narrower | beam balance; electronic balance; microbalance; spring balance, spring scale; steelyard, lever scale, beam scale |
| Broader | scale, weighing machine |
| Meaning | Equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account. |
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| Part of | account, accounting, account statement |
| Narrower | trial balance |
| Broader | equality |
| Verbs | balance |
| Meaning | Harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design). |
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| Examples | "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance"- John Ruskin |
| Synonyms | proportion |
| Broader | placement, arrangement |
| Meaning | Equality of distribution. |
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| Synonyms | equilibrium, equipoise, counterbalance |
| Narrower | conformation; symmetry, proportion |
| Broader | structure, construction |
| Meaning | Something left after other parts have been taken away. |
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| Examples | "he took what he wanted and I got the balance" |
| Synonyms | remainder, residual, residue, residuum, rest |
| Narrower | leftover, remnant |
| Broader | part, portion, component part, component |
| Meaning | The difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account. |
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| Narrower | balance of trade, trade balance, visible balance, trade gap; carry-over, carry-forward; compensating balance, offsetting balance; invisible balance |
| Broader | remainder, difference |
| Meaning | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun in in Libra. |
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| Synonyms | Libra |
| Category | astrology, star divination |
| Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul |
| Meaning | The seventh sign of the zodiac. The sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22. |
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| Synonyms | Libra, Libra the Balance, Libra the Scales |
| Broader | sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house |
| Meaning | (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation. Exact correspondence of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane. |
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| Synonyms | symmetry, symmetricalness, correspondence |
| Category | mathematics, math, maths |
| Narrower | regularity, geometrical regularity; bilaterality, bilateralism, bilateral symmetry; radial symmetry |
| Broader | spatial property, spatiality |
| Contrary | asymmetry, imbalance |
| Meaning | An equivalent counterbalancing weight. |
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| Synonyms | counterweight, counterbalance, counterpoise, equalizer, equaliser |
| Narrower | sash weight; tare |
| Broader | weight |
| Meaning | 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. |
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| Synonyms | balance wheel |
| Part of | timepiece, timekeeper |
| Broader | wheel |
| Meaning | Bring into balance or equilibrium. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights" |
| Synonyms | equilibrate, equilibrize, equilibrise |
| Narrower | complement; compensate, counterbalance, correct, even out, even off, even up; cancel, offset, set off; offset, countervail; trim |
| Broader | match, fit |
| Contrary | unbalance |
| Similar to | poise, balance; balance |
| Nouns | balance |
| Meaning | Compute credits and debits of an account. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Broader | account, calculate |
| Nouns | balance |
| Meaning | Hold or carry in equilibrium. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Synonyms | poise |
| Caused by | poise |
| Broader | hold, carry, bear |
| Similar to | balance, equilibrate, equilibrize, equilibrise |
| Nouns | balancer; balancer; balance |
| Meaning | Be in equilibrium. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
| Model | The children balance in the rocking chair; There balance some children in the rocking chair |
| Broader | be |
| Similar to | balance, equilibrate, equilibrize, equilibrise |
| Nouns | balancer; balancer; balance |