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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 |