Crossword-Solution: BALANCE
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| Balance | n. | An apparatus for weighing. |
| Balance | n. | Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate. |
| Balance | n. | Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales. |
| Balance | n. | The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness. |
| Balance | n. | An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account. |
| Balance | n. | A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary). |
| Balance | n. | The constellation Libra. |
| Balance | n. | The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September. |
| Balance | n. | A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i., S. |
| Balance | n. | To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance. |
| Balance | n. | 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. |
| Balance | n. | To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize. |
| Balance | n. | To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate. |
| Balance | n. | To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them. |
| Balance | n. | 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. |
| Balance | n. | 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. |
| Balance | n. | To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners. |
| Balance | n. | To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail. |
| Balance | v. i. | To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance. |
| Balance | v. i. | To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate. |
| Balance | v. i. | To move toward a person or couple, and then back. |
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Sentences with BALANCE (5)
Because of the sharp drop in oil prices, however, the economy experienced serious budgetary difficulties and balance-of-payments disequilibrium.
The left arm was extended as a balance, enough of it being shown bare to make Oak wish that the event had happened in summer, when the whole would have been revealed.
Hester Prynne looked at the man of skill, and even then, with her fate hanging in the balance, was startled to perceive what a change had come over his features—how much uglier they were, how his dark complexion seemed to have grown duskier, and his figure more misshapen—since the days when she had familiarly known him.
Our agriculture and horticulture destroy a weed just here and there and cultivate perhaps a score or so of wholesome plants, leaving the greater number to fight out a balance as they can.
There is a convention that one should acknowledge a bonk by saying `oif!' and a myth to the effect that failing to do so upsets the cosmic bonk/oif balance, causing much trouble in the universe.
Quotes with BALANCE (3)
To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balancedlife.
I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you - then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is the one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest." His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened aro…
What grinds me the most is we're sending kids out into the world who don't know how to balance a checkbook, don't know how to apply for a loan, don't even know how to properly fill out a job application, but because they know the quadratic formula we consider them prepared for the world`With that said, I'll admit even I can see how looking at the equation x -3 = 19 and knowing x =22 can be useful. I'll even say knowing x =7 and y= 8 in a problem like 9x - 6y= 15 can be helpfu…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 60 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).