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Balanced   /bˈælənst/   Listen
verb
Balance  v. t.  (past & past part. balanced; pres. part. balancing)  
1.
To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance.
2.
To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope.
3.
To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize. "One expression... must check and balance another."
4.
To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate. "Balance the good and evil of things."
5.
To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them. "I am very well satisfied that it is not in my power to balance accounts with my Maker."
6.
To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal; said of an item; as, this payment, or credit, balances the account.
7.
To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits; as, to balance a set of books.
8.
(Dancing) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners.
9.
(Naut.) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail.
Balanced valve. See Balance valve, under Balance, n.
Synonyms: To poise; weigh; adjust; counteract; neutralize; equalize.


Balance  v. i.  
1.
To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance.
2.
To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate. "He would not balance or err in the determination of his choice."
3.
(Dancing) To move toward a person or couple, and then back.


adjective
balanced  adj.  Being in a state of proper balance or equilibrium; opposite of unbalanced. "The carefully balanced seesaw" "A properly balanced symphony orchestra" "A balanced assessment of intellectual and cultural history" "A balanced blend of whiskeys" "The educated man shows a balanced development of all his powers" (Narrower terms: counterbalanced, counter-balanced, counterpoised; well-balanced; poised) (Related terms: stable - (maintaining equilibrium))





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"Balanced" Quotes from Famous Books



... education to know if I had the works of Sanctorius, which he had tried in vain to find. I could have lent him the "Medicina Statica," with its frontispiece showing Sanctorius with his dinner on the table before him, in his balanced chair which sunk with him below the level of his banquet-board when he had swallowed a certain number of ounces,—an early foreshadowing of Pettenkofer's chamber and quantitative physiology,—but the "Opera Omnia" of Sanctorius I had ...
— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... the nugget from him and balanced it carefully in her hand, with a thoughtful look in her face, as if she was ...
— Madame Midas • Fergus Hume
... argued with him. She had never been able to comprehend, for her comfort, that to a man like him an argument is both rousing and refreshing. In the middle of her remorse she instinctively held up her head, and balanced her cap as a Dutchwoman of the last century balanced her milk-pail, or a girl of the Roman Campagna her sheaf of grass and wild flowers. "It is a shame," she reflected indignantly; "it is very likely nothing of any consequence, just one of those inconsiderate ...
— A Houseful of Girls • Sarah Tytler
... road; the nation that hesitates is lost. Progress in general is marked by the development of the individual, on the one hand, and that of society, on the other. In well-ordered society these two ideas are balanced; they seek an equilibrium. Excessive individualism leads to anarchy and destruction; excessive socialism blights and stagnates individual activity and independence and retards progress. It must be admitted here as elsewhere that the individual culture and the individual life are, after all, ...
— History of Human Society • Frank W. Blackmar
... his scales. They consisted of two metal disks, suspended by silk threads from the ends of a fern stem. He balanced this stem upon the edge of a knife, fixed above his table. In one of the pans he placed a weight, stamped with Arabic characters. The pan fell to the table. Hassan produced a horn spoon, which he blew upon and then carefully wiped with the hem of his burnoose. He handed the spoon to the old ...
— The Turquoise Cup, and, The Desert • Arthur Cosslett Smith


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