poise

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poise

viskositeetin yksikkö, poisi, tasapainotila, tasapaino, säilyttää, kantaa, pysytellä tasapainossa, tasapainoilla, pitää tasapainossa.

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poise (englanti > suomi)

1. tasapaino

2. itsevarmuus, arvokkuus, luontevuus

3. poisi

poise englanniksi

1. puhekieltä weight Weight; an amount of weight, the amount something weighs.

2. 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 ....

3. The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed.

4. That which causes a balance; a counterweight.

5. Dryden

Men of unbounded imagination often want the poise of judgment.

6. A state of balance, equilibrium or stability.

(rfquotek)

7. composure Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation.

8. mien Mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body.

9. A condition of hovering, or being suspended.

10. puhekieltä A cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter.

11. puhekieltä To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt.

12. Longfellow

The slender, graceful spars / Poise aloft in air.

13. puhekieltä To counterpoise; to counterbalance.

14. Shakespeare

one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality

to poise with solid sense a sprightly wit

15. puhekieltä To be of a given weight; to weigh. (defdate)

16. puhekieltä To add weight to, to weigh down. (defdate)

17. (RQ:Flr Mntgn Essay), II.2:

Every man poiseth (transterm) upon his fellowes sinne, and elevates his owne.

18. puhekieltä To hold (something) (m) or (m) something else in equilibrium; to balance, counterpose. (defdate)

19. 1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet, I.2:

you saw her faire none els being by, / Her selfe poysd with her selfe in either eye.

20. To hold (something) in equilibrium, to hold balanced and ready; to carry (something) ready to be used. (defdate)

I poised the crowbar in my hand, and waited.

to poise the scales of a balance

Nor yet was earth suspended in the sky; / Nor poised, did on her own foundation lie.

21. To keep (something) in equilibrium; to hold suspended or balanced. (defdate)

The rock was poised precariously on the edge of the cliff.

22. To ascertain, as if by balancing; to weigh.

23. South

He cannot sincerely consider the strength, poise the weight, and discern the evidence.

24. weight

25. a unit of measure of unknown value (which presumably varied because of the technology of the time)

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