Dictionary Entry
poise
poise is a 5-letter English word with 17 senses as verb, noun, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1verb
Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness.
- 2verb
The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed.
- 3verb
The state of being balanced by equal weight or power; equipoise; balance; equilibrium; rest.
- 4verb
That which causes a balance; a counterweight.
- 5noun
To balance; to make of equal weight; as, to poise the scales of a balance.
- 6noun
To hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance.
- 7noun
To counterpoise; to counterbalance.
- 8noun
To ascertain, as by the balance; to weigh.
- 9noun
To weigh (down); to oppress.
- 10intransitive verb
To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt.
- 11noun
great coolness and composure under strain
"keep your cool"
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- 12noun
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
- 13noun
a state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium
- 14verb
hold or carry in equilibrium
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- 15verb
cause to be balanced or suspended
- 16verb
prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult
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- 17verb
be motionless, in suspension
"The bird poised for a few moments before it attacked"
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