POISE


Meaning of POISE in English

I. noun

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

poised between sth and sth

Ahead of it the Wyrmberg turned from a distant toy to several billion tons of rock poised between heaven and earth.

Like families gathered at Christmas, social animals are poised between cooperation and conflict.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Anne is tall and thin, but lacks poise .

Margerie was very beautiful, with the grace and poise of a movie star.

The Bears were 13 points behind, but Coach Stenstrom maintained his poise and confidence.

They felt that he lacked sufficient poise and confidence for the job.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And it was a humdinger, delivered with passion and poise .

And yet this gangsta poise coexists with a weirdly playful quality.

From a state of poise and self-confidence, she was suddenly overwhelmingly self-conscious.

Junior Marquez Shaw showed a lot of poise in completing nine of 12 passes for 150 yards and three touchdowns.

Nigel was ostentatiously smoking a big cigar to give an illusion of poise .

On the other hand, I can think of no group that will handle defeat with more poise and grace.

With remarkable poise , he quickly put the two broken pieces in one hand and made an attempt to paddle canoe-style.

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

now

The worm is now poised to emerge from its dormant phase and begin to spread rapidly by colonising more machines and sites.

From outside bets to reach the play-offs, Leicester are now poised to break into the top two.

over

The child's spoon was poised over the food.

Bethany poised over the bed, a slight abstract frown clouding her face.

At least, not until the three months had passed and the knife was poised over his own neck.

Harold was flexing his muscles for the perfect balance, teeth bared, knife poised over his head.

This girl looked as if she was on her first assignment, as she sat with pencil poised over her shorthand notebook.

■ NOUN

brink

Now, at 18, Crowell is a teen-ager poised on the brink of adult-sized fame.

edge

A chunk of rubble half as high as a man was poised on the edge above the telephone box.

She went very still, the sensation of being poised too near the edge of a precipice sweeping over her again.

We are poised on the edge .

■ VERB

appear

To be sure, the on-line travel industry is still in its infancy, but it appears poised for explosive growth.

People who can present themselves well appear more clever, poised and promotable.

Now, the Seahawks appear poised to leave their solid fan base in Seattle for Southern California.

seem

But many now seem poised to vote for them.

But platinum-blond Conger seemed poised and sensible.

Apple seems poised on the verge of something.

To Heather, she seemed delicate looking, poised with her hands loosely clasped in front.

Katherine seemed more poised than she had the previous week.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Bryant has a reputation as an unusually poised, thoughtful teenager, and Twardzik believes that those qualities would ripen in college.

Feel elegant and poised as you do them.

He made it plain, quite quickly, that he was poised to adore Anna.

The man remained poised between the two like a bridge, without moving in one direction or the other.

They are held together, poised upright like a pencil standing on its point, by the recursive dynamics of coevolution.

To sit down in meditation and think of these mystical ideas is to poise oneself for the transcendent journey.

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