Find out which words work together and produce more natural sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. Toggle navigation. Resources home Text Checker. Resources Resources home Text Checker. English American English. Enter search text. Extra Examples How do you find an acceptable balance between closeness and distance in a relationship?
Pulling up all the plants will disturb the natural balance of the pond. He is one of millions of people who does not pay off his credit card balance every month. See also balance transfer. We ordered copies ; 50 to be delivered now and the balance next month. They are looking for a better balance between internet security and ease of use. You need to find a balance between the demands of work and those of your home life.
See also competitive balance. The Conservatives initially balanced the books by selling assets and cutting health and education spending. He had made some kind of computation error and the account didn't balance. The President is unlikely to balance the budget in this term of office , but he does hope to lower the deficit.
They hoped that this month's good sales would balance out the poor sales in the previous month. Outsourcing decisions are essentially a balancing act between the benefits of markets , lower production costs , and higher transaction costs. Examples of balance. Our aim was to select children who had as balanced an exposure as possible to both languages. From the Cambridge English Corpus. Each task contained two blocks of 36 items, the sequence of blocks was balanced over participants.
An initial semantic congruency check was performed for each of the possible meanings within each stimulus to make sure they were balanced on that dimension. The person who has achieved full virtue has passions that are rightfully balanced. The model calibration balanced market and non-market effects in setting baseline conditions.
In the following, steady state is used equivalently to balanced growth path. Right lung: overflow, with balancing ofthe base to apex flow. More often than not, however, the distribution of text between the prima parte and seconda parte is not balanced. A choice between rough equals is balanced, but not in the fine way that a choice between exact equals is.
The motivation for adding such complexity to the already complex situation of balancing selection in subdivided populations is two-fold. A simple genealogical structure of strongly balanced allelic lines and trans-species evolution of polymorphism.
Evidence for balancing selection at the major histocompatibility complex in a free-living ruminant. The effects of local selection, balanced polymorphism and background selection on equilibrium patterns of genetic diversity in subdivided populations. Here the pressure transport and convection are vanishingly small and the gain of energy by production is balanced by diffusion and dissipation. She had trouble keeping her balance as the boat rocked back and forth.
See More Examples The skater suddenly lost his balance and fell. She has a good sense of balance. See More Examples The food had a perfect balance of sweet and spicy flavors. He's trying to keep his work life and his family life in balance. His work life and his family life are out of balance. Full Definition of balance Entry 1 of 2. Definition of balance Entry 2 of 2. The good times and bad times balanced out.
The discount and the shipping charge balance each other out. Examples of balance in a Sentence Noun She had trouble keeping her balance as the boat rocked back and forth.
The skater suddenly lost his balance and fell. Another skater bumped into him and knocked him off balance. Gymnasts need flexibility and balance. To provide balance in her news story, she interviewed members of both political parties.
Harman and Walter Showell. Napoleon's Marshals R. The substance to be weighed is placed in one pan and known weights are placed in the other until the beam returns to the horizontal See also microbalance. Derived forms of balance balanceable , adjective. A weighing device, especially one consisting of a rigid beam horizontally suspended by a low-friction support at its center, with identical weighing pans hung at either end, one of which holds an unknown weight while the effective weight in the other is increased by known amounts until the beam is level and motionless.
A state of bodily equilibrium. The difference in magnitude between opposing forces or influences, such as for bodily parts or organs. Equality of mass and net electric charge of reacting species on each side of a chemical equation. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. To adjust a chemical equation so that the number of each type of atom and the total charge on the reactant left-hand side of the equation matches the number and charge on the product right-hand side of the equation.
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