poise

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Definizione monolingua


poise


Verb

poise (third-person singular simple present poises, present participle poising, simple past and past participle poised)


  1. (obsolete) To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt.
    The slender, graceful spars / Poise aloft in air. — Longfellow.
  2. (obsolete) To be of a given weight; to weigh. [14th-17th c.]
  3. (obsolete) To add weight to, to weigh down. [16th-18th c.]
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.2:
      Every man poiseth [transl. poise] upon his fellowes sinne, and elevates his owne.
  4. (now rare) To hold (something) with or against something else in equilibrium; to balance, counterpose. [from 16th c.]
    • 1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet, I.2:
      you saw her faire none els being by, / Her selfe poysd with her selfe in either eye.
  5. To hold (something) in equilibrium, to hold balanced and ready; to carry (something) ready to be used. [from 16th c.]
    I poised the crowbar in my hand, and waited.
  6. To keep (something) in equilibrium; to hold suspended or balanced. [from 17th c.]
    The rock was poised precariously on the edge of the cliff.
Noun

poise (uncountable)


  1. (obsolete) Weight; an amount of weight, the amount something weighs.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:
      as an huge rockie clift, / Whose false foundation waues haue washt away, / With dreadfull poyse is from the mayneland rift, / [...] So downe he fell [...].
  2. A state of balance, equilibrium or stability
  3. composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation
  4. mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body
  5. A condition of hovering, or being suspended
  6. (physics) A cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter.

Definizione dizionario poise


bilanciare
equilibrare
equilibrio
poise
portamento

Altri significati:
  (obsolete) To add weight to, to weigh down. [16th-18th c.]
  composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation
  A cgs unit of dynamic viscosity
  mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body
  (obsolete) Weight; an amount of weight, the amount something weighs.
  (now rare) To hold (something) with or against something else in equilibrium; to balance, counterpose. [from 16th c.]
  (obsolete) To be of a given weight; to weigh. [14th-17th c.]
  To hold (something) in equilibrium, to hold balanced and ready; to carry (something) ready to be used. [from 16th c.]
  A condition of hovering, or being suspended
  To keep (something) in equilibrium; to hold suspended or balanced. [from 17th c.]
  (physics) A cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter.

Traduzione poise


bilanciare ,equilibrare ,equilibrio ,poise ,portamento

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