Word Meanings - POISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

pensum a portion weighed out, pendere to weigh, weigh out. Cf. 1. Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness. "Weights of an extraordinary poise." Evelyn. 2. The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance

Additional info about word: POISE

pensum a portion weighed out, pendere to weigh, weigh out. Cf. 1. Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness. "Weights of an extraordinary poise." Evelyn. 2. The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed. 3. The state of being balanced by equal weight or power; equipoise; balance; equilibrium; rest. Bentley. 4. That which causes a balance; a counterweight. Men of unbounded imagination often want the poise of judgment. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of POISE)

• Balance
• Weigh
• poise
• pit
• counterpoise
• counteract
• neutralize
• equalize
• estimate
• redress
• adjust
• Hang
• Rest
• lean
• depend
• suspend

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of POISE)

• Over-balance
• aggravate

Related words: (words related to POISE)

• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• NEUTRALIZE
  To render inert or imperceptible the peculiar affinities of, as a chemical substance; to destroy the effect of; as, to neutralize an acid with a base. 3. To destroy the peculiar or opposite dispositions of; to reduce to a state of indifference
• COUNTERACT
  To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
• ADJUSTIVE
  Tending to adjust.
• EQUALIZER
  One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
• REDRESSIVE
  Tending to redress. Thomson.
• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• WEIGHTILY
  In a weighty manner.
• EQUALIZE
  1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely
• DEPENDENT
  1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf. 2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining;
• WEIGHMASTER
  One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.
• COUNTERPOISE
  countrepesen, counterpeisen, F. contrepeser. See Counter, adv., and 1. To act against with equal weight; to equal in weght; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance. Weigts, counterpoising one another. Sir K. Digby. 2. To act against with equal
• DEPENDENCY
  1. State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust. Any long series of action, the parts of which have very much dependency each on the other. Sir J. Reynolds. So that
• BALANCEMENT
  The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. Darwin.
• WEIGHER
  One who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is to weigh commodities.
• DEPENDABLE
  Worthy of being depended on; trustworthy. "Dependable friendships." Pope.
• REDRESSIBLE
  Such as may be redressed.
• WEIGH-HOUSE
  A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed.
• ESTIMATE
  1. To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic , or intrinsic , value; to fix the worth of roughly or in a general way; as, to estimate the value of goods or land; to estimate the worth or talents
• WEIGHT
  The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it. Atomic weight. See under Atomic, and cf. Element. -- Dead weight, Feather weight, Heavy weight, Light weight, etc. See under Dead, Feather, etc. -- Weight of
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• INDEPENDENCY
  Doctrine and polity of the Independents. (more info) 1. Independence. "Give me," I cried , "My bread, and independency!" Pope.
• SELF-DEPENDING
  Depending on one's self.
• WELTERWEIGHT
  1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that
• MISADJUSTMENT
  Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.
• BY-DEPENDENCE
  An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory. Shak.
• READJUSTMENT
  A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.
• INTERDEPENDENT
  Mutually dependent.