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BALANCING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Getting two things to correspond
Example:
the reconciliation of his checkbook and the bank statement
Synonyms:
balancing; reconciliation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("balancing" is a kind of...):
equalisation; equalization; leveling (the act of making equal or uniform)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb balance
Context examples:
But I had voluntarily stripped myself of all those balancing instincts by which even the worst of us continues to walk with some degree of steadiness among temptations; and in my case, to be tempted, however slightly, was to fall.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Through the homeostasis mechanism in balancing total ion concentration (Ca++, Na+), it reduces vascular hyperreactivity and peripheral and arterial vascular resistance, possibly by inhibiting transmembrane ionic influx, probably calcium ions, and stimulating prostaglandin E2 synthesis, thereby causing vasodilatation.
(Indapamide, NCI Thesaurus)
Ring particles are caught in a balancing act between the pull of Saturn’s gravity, which wants to draw them back into the planet, and their orbital velocity, which wants to fling them outward into space.
(Saturn is Losing Its Rings, NASA)
But the consideration of these points, and the well balancing of what you may esteem your duties, I leave to you; my judgment and ideas are already disturbed by the near approach of death.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
There I settled into a convenient fork, and, balancing myself securely, I found myself looking down at a most wonderful panorama of this strange country in which we found ourselves.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was just balancing whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her landau when a cab came through the street.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The three archers named stood at the further end of the poop, balancing themselves with feet widely spread and bows drawn, until the heads of the cloth-yard arrows were level with the centre of the stave.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She ascertained from me in a few words what it was all about, comforted Dora, and gradually convinced her that I was not a labourer—from my manner of stating the case I believe Dora concluded that I was a navigator, and went balancing myself up and down a plank all day with a wheelbarrow—and so brought us together in peace.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She was extended full length at her end of the divan, completely motionless and with her chin raised a little as if she were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
She hinted in a murmur that the surname of the balancing girl was Baker. (I've heard it said that Daisy's murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.)
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
