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Balanced

adjective

Being in a state of proper equilibrium. "A properly balanced symphony orchestra" , "A balanced assessment of intellectual and cultural history" , "A balanced blend of whiskeys" , "The educated man shows a balanced development of all his powers"

Balance

verb

(past & past part. balanced; pres. part. balancing)

Bring into balance or equilibrium. Synonyms: equilibrate, equilibrise, equilibrize. "Balance the two weights"

Compute credits and debits of an account.

Hold or carry in equilibrium. Synonym: poise.

Be in equilibrium.

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"Balanced" Quotes from Famous Books

... forces at his disposal; with what intrepid resolution and expeditious energy he has animated their spirit and guided their art; and how naturally those players have glided into their several stations and assimilated in one artistic family. How well balanced, how finely equipped, how distinctively able that company is, and what resources of poetry, thought, taste, character, humour, and general capacity it contains, may not, perhaps, be fully appreciated ...

— Shadows of the Stage • William Winter

... memory for things like that,—and yet this was their gratitude. He walked up and down his room and talked so wildly and incoherently that if I had not known and been told so often by our greatest authorities in Germany how beautifully balanced Uncle William's brain is, I should have feared that he ...

— The Hohenzollerns in America - With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and other impossibilities • Stephen Leacock

... have not. You are a sort of dilettante, half nihilist, half financier. You would like to pass for a tranquil, well-balanced man, for what is called a philistine, ...

— Caesar or Nothing • Pio Baroja Baroja

... among those who were crowding around him there wormed men who saw in Sergeant York's popularity the opportunity for them to make money for themselves. Some of the propositions that were made to him were sound, some whimsical, others strangely balanced upon a business idea—but back of all of them ran the same motive. The past in Sergeant York's life had been filled with hard work and hardships, the present was new, the future uncharted, but to him there was something in the voices of the people who ...

— Sergeant York And His People • Sam Cowan

... the danger she had herself escaped, prescribed. Her first impulse was to give the established signal that was to recall the laborers from the field, or to awake the sleepers, in the event of an alarm; but better reflection told her that such a step might prove fatal to him who balanced in her affections against the rest of the world The struggle in her mind only ended, as she clearly and unequivocally caught a view of her husband, issuing from the forest, at the very point where he had entered. The return path unfortunately led directly past the spot where such ...

— The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish • James Fenimore Cooper

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