- a dignified, self-confident manner or bearing; composure; self-possession: to show poise in company.
- steadiness; stability: intellectual poise.
- a state of balance or equilibrium, as from equality or equal distribution of weight; equipoise.
- suspense or wavering, as between rest and motion or two phases of motion: the poise of the tides.
- the way of being poised, held, or carried.
- the state or position of hovering: the poise of a bird in the air.
- to adjust, hold, or carry in equilibrium; balance evenly.
- to hold supported or raised, as in position for casting, using, etc.: to poise a spear.
- to hold or carry in a particular manner: She walked, carefully poising a water jug on her head.
- to put (a person or thing) in a state or position of readiness or preparedness: He has poised himself to succeed. The mayor is credited with poising the city for impressive growth and development.
- to weigh.
- to rest in equilibrium; be balanced.
- to hover, as a bird in the air.
- a centimeter-gram-second unit of viscosity, equal to the viscosity of a fluid in which a stress of one dyne per square centimeter is required to maintain a difference of velocity of one centimeter per second between two parallel planes in the fluid that lie in the direction of flow and are separated by a distance of one centimeter. Symbol: P
- composure or dignity of manner
- physical balance or assurance in movement or bearing
- the state of being balanced or stable; equilibrium; stability
- the position of hovering
- suspense or indecision
- to be or cause to be balanced or suspended
- to hold, as in readiness
- (tr) a rare word for weigh 1
- the cgs unit of viscosity; the viscosity of a fluid in which a tangential force of 1 dyne per square centimetre maintains a difference in velocity of 1 centimetre per second between two parallel planes 1 centimetre apart. It is equivalent to 0.1 newton second per square metre
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