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Balanced

adjective

Being in a state of proper equilibrium. "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" Antonym: unbalanced.

Balance

verb

(past & past part. balanced; pres. part. balancing)

Bring into balance or equilibrium. Synonyms: equilibrate, equilibrise, equilibrize. "Balance the two weights" Antonym: unbalance.

Compute credits and debits of an account.

Hold or carry in equilibrium. Synonym: poise.

Be in 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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