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poise

  1. viskositeetin yksikkö, poisi, tasapainotila, tasapaino, säilyttää, kantaa, pysytellä tasapainossa, tasapainoilla, pitää tasapainossa.

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tasapainotila puhekieltä weight Weight; an amount of weight, the amount something weighs.
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:

as an huge rockie clift, / Whose false foundation waues haue washt away, / With dreadfull poyse is from the mayneland rift, / ... So downe he fell ....
The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed.
That which causes a balance; a counterweight.
Dryden
Men of unbounded imagination often want the poise of judgment.
A state of balance, equilibrium or stability.

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composure Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation.
mien Mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body.
A condition of hovering, or being suspended.
puhekieltä A cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter.
puhekieltä To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt.
Longfellow
The slender, graceful spars / Poise aloft in air.
puhekieltä To counterpoise; to counterbalance.
Shakespeare
one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality
to poise with solid sense a sprightly wit
puhekieltä To be of a given weight; to weigh. (defdate)
puhekieltä To add weight to, to weigh down. (defdate)
(RQ:Flr Mntgn Essay), II.2:
Every man poiseth (transterm) upon his fellowes sinne, and elevates his owne.
puhekieltä To hold (something) (m) or (m) something else in equilibrium; to balance, counterpose. (defdate)
1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet, I.2:
you saw her faire none els being by, / Her selfe poysd with her selfe in either eye.
To hold (something) in equilibrium, to hold balanced and ready; to carry (something) ready to be used. (defdate)

I poised the crowbar in my hand, and waited.

to poise the scales of a balance

Nor yet was earth suspended in the sky; / Nor poised, did on her own foundation lie.
To keep (something) in equilibrium; to hold suspended or balanced. (defdate)

The rock was poised precariously on the edge of the cliff.

To ascertain, as if by balancing; to weigh.
South
He cannot sincerely consider the strength, poise the weight, and discern the evidence.
weight
a unit of measure of unknown value (which presumably varied because of the technology of the time)

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