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US
/ˈbæɫəns/
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[ UK /bˈæləns/ ]
[ UK /bˈæləns/ ]
NOUN
- the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
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something left after other parts have been taken away
he threw away the rest
he took what he wanted and I got the balance
there was no remainder - a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat
- a state of equilibrium
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harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)
in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance - a weight that balances another weight
- (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
- a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity
- equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
- equality of distribution
VERB
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bring into balance or equilibrium
She has to balance work and her domestic duties
balance the two weights - hold or carry in equilibrium
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be in equilibrium
He was balancing on one foot - compute credits and debits of an account
How To Use balance In A Sentence
- The final section of the traverse was a bit of a challenge: delicate, balancey moves with next to nothing for hands or feet.
- Our economy is unbalanced, money is in excess supply, and its circulation is completely divorced from the circulation of goods. Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
- Striking that balance between old and new will always be difficult, but after a few numbers here, memories of their old bandmaster begin to fade.
- Frankly I don't understand why most companies don't follow the same policy as franked income in the hands of shareholders is worth a lot more to them than huge piles of franking credits mouldering away in the company's balance sheet.
- Finally, in the formation of an opinion as to the abstract preferableness of one course of action over another, or as to the truth or falsehood or right significance of a proposition, the fact that the majority of one's contemporaries lean in the other direction is naught, and no more than dust in the balance. On Compromise
- The art world can be a profoundly unfriendly and unbalanced place. Times, Sunday Times
- The imbalance in the number of girls and boys of marriageable age is not the only cause of these social changes, and it will not persist for long.
- Kerry have a better balance all round; better team and better subs.
- Your clock has a floating balance mechanism.
- If you are to have any chance of success, you need to pore over balance sheets, crunch the right numbers and keep abreast of company news. Times, Sunday Times
