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BALANCED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being in a state of proper equilibrium
Example:
the educated man shows a balanced development of all his powers
Classified under:
Similar:
counterbalanced; counterpoised (brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another)
harmonious; proportionate; symmetrical (exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities)
poised (marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action)
self-balancing (of someone or something that balances himself or itself)
stable (maintaining equilibrium)
well-balanced (in an optimal state of balance or equilibrium)
Antonym:
unbalanced (being or thrown out of equilibrium)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb balance
Context examples:
DNA Topology Regulation involves DNA topoisomerases that catalyze essential DNA transaction processes, including DNA strand scission, manipulation, and rejoining, in order to attain a balanced topology of the genome.
(DNA Topology Regulation, NCI Thesaurus)
A group of acute myeloid leukemias characterized by recurrent genetic abnormalities, mainly balanced translocations.
(Acute Myeloid Leukemia with Recurrent Genetic Abnormalities, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)
Balanced translocations involving chromosomal bands 11q23 and 21q22 are commonly associated with this disorder.
(Epipodophyllotoxin-Related Myelodysplastic Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
Strength balanced sensuousness and had upon it a tonic effect, compelling him to love beauty that was healthy and making him vibrate to sensations that were wholesome.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
This energy is said to be balanced or made stronger by practitioners who pass their hands over, or gently touch, a patient's body.
(Healing touch, NCI Dictionary)
The lawyer took that rude but weighty instrument into his hand, and balanced it.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Such would be my liberty except that in my Elizabeth I possessed a treasure, alas, balanced by those horrors of remorse and guilt which would pursue me until death.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
One in a scarlet cap bent over it, steadying the jagged rock which was balanced on the spoon-shaped end of the long wooden lever.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Well, well! said Miss Betsey. —I kept my housekeeping-book regularly, and balanced it with Mr. Copperfield every night, cried my mother in another burst of distress, and breaking down again.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He was proud, sardonic, harsh to inferiority of every description: in my secret soul I knew that his great kindness to me was balanced by unjust severity to many others.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
