[
US
/ˈpɔɪz/
]
NOUN
- a state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium
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great coolness and composure under strain
keep your cool
keep your cool - a cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter; the viscosity of a fluid in which a force of one dyne per square centimeter maintains a velocity of 1 centimeter per second
VERB
- prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult
- hold or carry in equilibrium
- cause to be balanced or suspended
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be motionless, in suspension
The bird poised for a few moments before it attacked
How To Use poise In A Sentence
- I wrote it early in 1945 and it was published in Wireless World in October, just after the war had ended, and it laid down the principles which now determine the world's communication system, the idea that you'd have satellites poised at such a height above the earth that they remained stationery in the sky and so-called synchronous, or geostationary, orbit. Great voices of science fiction
- On this side of the Atlantic, the word means “style” or perhaps “poise” or “polish,” as in classy or a class act. Feckless Youth
- Unlike other porpoises and dolphins, belugas are quite leisurely.
- And she, warm with what Dick had just told of him, pleasured at the goodly sight of him, dwelling with her eyes on the light, high poise of head, the careless, sun-sanded hair, and the lightness, almost debonaireness, of his carriage despite his weight of body and breadth of shoulders. CHAPTER XXIII
- Ancelotti is poised to become the puppet master of this summer's transfer dealings. The Sun
- While Mona stares uncomfortably into the horse's eye, Tamsin regards her with poised bemusement.
- De Havilland's poised, elegant Miriam is the perfect foil for haggard, wild-eyed Charlotte.
- She seemed embarrassed for a moment but quickly recovered her poise.
- A product of the Reagan-Bush era, she's been steadily counterpoised to the of the right. THE SELLING OF SEX
- Less obvious, however, are the deaths from morbilli of wild seals and porpoises in several parts of the world and the equine morbilli in Australia that has not only killed the horses infected, but two of their trainers besides.