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Definition: Balancing |
BalancingNoun1. Getting two things to correspond; "the reconciliation of his checkbook and the bank statement". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "balancing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
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Computing | A test for equality between the values of two equivalent sets of items or between one set of items and a control total. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | When applied to marine reciprocating engines, denotes the arranging of moving parts and adjustable weights so that engine runs smoothly and without undue vibration. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Compensation of the existing unbalance in a rotating body by adding to, or subtracting from, the unbalanced mass, down to an acceptable limit of unbalance. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | The process of adjusting the electrical symmetry of the aerial and other parts of the direction finder, over the whole frequency range of the equipment. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: BalancingSynonym: reconciliation (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | Fact is, the whole good versus evil, balancing the scale, I'm over it. I'm done with the moral coil, but believe me, I'm going for a big finish (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Tongue Twisters | Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons -- balancing them badly. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Balancing in the Basket (1898) A Balancing Act (1992) | |
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 | Self Balancing And Blood Pressure Test : School Of Aviation Medicine. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Patent balancing by an amateur. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Timothy took 'em for her, and drove off balancing 'em with one hand. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Brumbaugh balancing clown holding barrels of rum and Standard Oil on tightrope of "public opinion" being frayed by "Anti-Penrose sentiment". Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Circus scene showing a man (magician?) standing on a table holding a curtain, standing to the right is a clown with a horn, on the left a man is balancing on one foot on a moving horse while another performer stands nearby, the audience stands in the back. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Balancing propeller. Hamilton propeller plant, East Hartford, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Balancing Circus Act 1" by Gary McCord Commentary: "Demonstration of upper body strength in circus act." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Ronald Reagan | We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule. |
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John Locke | 1690 | To which, if we add, that monarchy being simple, and most obvious to men, whom neither experience had instructed in forms of government, nor the ambition or insolence of empire had taught to beware of the encroachments of prerogative, or the inconveniences of absolute power, which monarchy in succession was apt to lay claim to, and bring upon them, it was not at all strange, that they should not much trouble themselves to think of methods of restraining any exorbitances of those to whom they had given the authority over them, and of balancing the power of government, by placing several parts of it in different hands. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Health | Your body has a complex system for balancing the volume and composition of body fluids. (references) | |
Adjuvant therapy decisions are complicated by marginal differences in treatment results and risk-benefit profiles, balancing acute effects with long-term outcomes. (references) | ||
This consists of balancing the patient’s fluids and electrolytes, maintaining their oxygen status and blood pressure, and treating them for any complicating infections. (references) | ||
Business | Such reviews could conceivably be used to enforce forex balancing provisions in FIE contracts. (references) | |
However, foreign exchange balancing requirements remain in effect in other Chinese laws and regulations and in joint-venture contractual arrangements. (references) | ||
They generally have less knowledge of the technical and economic aspects of their work. Foreign companies usually require an architect’s supervision over an investment, something Polish architects are not qualified to do. Polish architects are not experienced in appropriately balancing design issues with cost issues. (references) | ||
Economic History | China | Many joint-venture contracts, however, still contain a clause requiring such balancing. (references) |
Mexico | The NAFTA also eliminated some barriers to investment in Mexico such as trade balancing and domestic content requirements. (references) | |
Pakistan | Tax relief has also been provided for expansion and balancing, modernization and replacement (BMR), in existing industries. (references) | |
Political Economy | RUSSIA | In the conceptual scheme of the new code, trade unions are expected to play a balancing role in representing workers' interests. (references) |
BELGIUM | By 1994, debt was equal to 137 percent of GDP. Since then, however, the country has made substantial progress in reducing the debt and balancing its budget. (references) | |
AUSTRIA | The government broke precedent by not consulting with the social partner institutions on important economic policy decisions such as social benefits reform and balancing the budget. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Russia | Under the new code, trade unions are expected to play a balancing role in representing workers' interests; however, there are significant gaps in the proposed regime, including no clear enforcement mechanisms for failure or refusal by an employer to engage in good faith collective bargaining or other obligations, and provisions that favor the designation of a majority union as the exclusive bargaining agent. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Martin van Buren | 1837-1841 | In justly balancing the powers of the Federal and State authorities difficulties nearly insurmountable arose at the outset and subsequent collisions were deemed inevitable. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | We must continue, through such measures as the interest equalization tax, as well as the cooperation of other nations, our recent progress toward balancing our international accounts. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Balancing the budget requires only your vote and my signature. |
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| "Balancing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 67.37% of the time. "Balancing" is used about 474 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 67.37% | 320 | 16,119 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 17.47% | 83 | 36,350 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.84% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.11% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (common) | 0.21% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 474 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "balancing": Agartha Personal Life Balancing Program ♦ Aura balancing ♦ balancing act ♦ balancing antenna ♦ balancing band ♦ balancing bit ♦ balancing bus ♦ balancing clamp ♦ balancing coil ♦ balancing flap ♦ balancing holes ♦ balancing network ♦ balancing of the books ♦ balancing pole ♦ balancing reservoirs ♦ balancing sheet ♦ Chakra balancing and energizing ♦ counter balancing ♦ Cranial Facial Balancing ♦ Energy balancing ♦ Human Ecology Balancing Sciences ♦ ledger balancing ♦ Life force balancing ♦ load balancing ♦ Spinal balancing. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "balancing": balancing-act. | |
Ending with "balancing": load-balancing, re-balancing. | |
Containing "balancing": Earth-balancing-pyramid. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "balancing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | وازن (balance, collate, compare, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equate, equilibrate, equipoise, even, offset, poise, set off, square, stabilize, strike a balance). (various references) | |
Chinese | 平衡 (Balance, Balanced, equalisation, Equalization, Equilibria, Equilibrium). (various references) | |
Danish | symmetribalancering, gyngende bevaegelse (rocking, swag, sway, swinging), afstemning (ballot, tuning, voting), afbalancering (bringing into state of equilibrium). (various references) | |
Dutch | balanceren (balance, poise, rock, swing), uitbalanceren (bringing into state of equilibrium, to balance, to equilibrate), symmetreren. (various references) | |
Finnish | tasapainotus (balance, balancering network, impedance simulating network), symmetrointi. (various references) | |
French | balancement, équilibrage (counter balancing). (various references) | |
German | balancierend (poising). (various references) | |
Greek | έλεγχος ισοζύγισης, ζυγοστάθμιση (balance). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מאזן (balance, compensatory, offsetting), שקול (balanced, consideration, considered, deliberate, equal, measured, poised, politic, weighing, weighted), אזון (equilibration, equilibrium, equipoise, evenness, levelling, poise). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kiegyenlítő lap (balancing flap, trimmer). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penimbangan (considering, weighing (act of)). (various references) | |
Italian | equilibratura (bringing into state of equilibrium). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 負荷分散 (load balancing, load distribution, load sharing), 玉乗り (balancing on a ball), 球乗り (balancing on a ball), 弥次郎兵衛 (balancing toy). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たまのり (balancing on a ball), ふかぶんさん (load balancing, load distribution, load sharing), やじろべえ (balancing toy). (various references) | |
Korean | 균형을 잡음. (various references) | |
Manx | leaystey (bank, boggle, brandish, dangle, fluctuate, fluctuating, heel, hesitate, hesitating, hesitation, loll, lolling, oscillate, oscillation, reel, reeling, rock, rocking, roll, see-saw, sway, swaying, swerve, swing, swing back, swinging, vacillate, vacillating, vacillation, waddle; wavering, waddling; fluctuation, wave, wave of hand, waver, waver of fixture). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alancingbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | balanceamento, equilibragem (bringing into state of equilibrium), alinhamento (line). (various references) | |
Romanian | balansare (seesaw, sway, swing), ponderator, cumpãnire (balance, equilibrium, equipoise, trail). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | balansiranje. (various references) | |
Spanish | suelta (accounting, reckoning), igualación (blending, equalisation, equalization), equilibrado (adjusted, balanced, evened, stable, well balanced, well-adjusted), compensación (amends, clearance, compensation, indemnification, indemnity, offset, quid pro quo, quittance, recoupment, redress, reparation, requital, satisfaction, setoff, sop, trade off, trim). (various references) | |
Swedish | balansering. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | компенсація (amends, atonement, compensation, consideration, offset, quits, recompense, recoupment, reinforcement, remuneration, reparation, requital, set off), балансування (libration). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Kings Chapter 18, Verse 21 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai proshgagen hliou proV pantaV kai eipen autoiV hliou ewV pote umeiV cwlaneite ep' amfoteraiV taiV ignuaiV ei estin kurioV o qeoV poreuesqe opisw autou ei de o baal autoV poreuesqe opisw autou kai ouk apekriqh o laoV logon |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Accedens autem Helias ad omnem populum ait usquequo claudicatis in duas partes si Dominus est Deus sequimini eum si autem Baal sequimini illum et non respondit ei populus verbum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Forsothe Helie comynge nyy to al the puple of Yrael, seith, How long halt ye into two parties? If the Lord is God, folwith hym; forsothe if Baal, folwith hym. And the puple answerde not to hym a word. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Elijah came to all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD is God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Elijah came near to all the people and said, How long will you go on balancing between two opinions? if the Lord is God, then give worship to him; but if Baal, give worship to him. And the people said not a word in answer. |
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| Language | 1 Kings Chapter 18, Verse 21 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ug si Elias mipaduol ngadto sa tibook katawohan, ug miingon: Hangtud kanus-a ba nga magakiangkiang kamo sa taliwala sa duha ka daplin? Kong si Jehova Dios man, sumunod kamo kaniya; apan kong si Baal nan sumunod kamo kaniya. Ug ang katawohan wala tumubag kaniya bisan usa ka pulong. |
| Croatian | Ilija pristupi svemu narodu i reèe: "Dokle æete hramati na obje strane? Ako je Jahve Bog, slijedite ga; ako je Baal, slijedite njega." A narod mu nije ništa odgovorio. |
| Danish | Elias trådte så frem for alt Folket og sagde: "Hvor længe vil I blive ved at halte til begge Sider? Er HERREN Gud, så hold eder til ham, og er Ba'al Gud, så hold eder til ham!" Men Folket svarede ham ikke et Ord. |
| Dutch | Toen naderde Elia tot het ganse volk, en zeide: Hoe lang hinkt gij op twee gedachten? Zo de HEERE God is, volgt Hem na, en zo het Baal is, volgt hem na! Maar het volk antwoordde hem niet een woord. |
| Finnish | Ja Elia astui kaiken kansan eteen ja sanoi: "Kuinka kauan te onnutte molemmille puolille? Jos Herra on Jumala, seuratkaa häntä; mutta jos Baal on Jumala, seuratkaa häntä." Eikä kansa vastannut hänelle mitään. |
| French | Alors Élie s`approcha de tout le peuple, et dit: Jusqu`à quand clocherez-vous des deux côtés? Si l`Éternel est Dieu, allez après lui; si c`est Baal, allez après lui! Le peuple ne lui répondit rien. |
| German | Da trat Elia zu allem Volk und sprach: Wie lange hinkt ihr auf beide Seiten? Ist der HERR Gott, so wandelt ihm nach; ist's aber Baal, so wandelt ihm nach. Und das Volk antwortete ihm nichts. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu Elia mendekati rakyat itu dan berkata, "Sampai kapan kalian mau tetap mendua hati? Kalau TUHAN itu Allah, sembahlah TUHAN! Kalau Baal itu Allah, sembahlah Baal!" Rakyat yang berkumpul di situ diam saja. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Setelah itu maka dihampiri Elia kepada segenap orang banyak itu, lalu katanya: Berapa lamakah kamu berjalan pincang dengan ingatan bercabang? Jikalau Tuhan itu Allah, baiklah kamu mengikut Dia, tetapi jikalau kiranya Baal, baiklah kamu mengikut dia? Maka sepatah katapun tiada disahut orang banyak itu akan dia. |
| Maori | ¶ Na ka whakatata a Iraia ki te iwi katoa, ka mea, Kia pehea te roa o to koutou tuhurihuri ki nga tikanga e rua? ki te mea ko Ihowa te Atua, me whai ki a ia; ki te mea ia ko Paara, me whai ki a ia. Na kahore he kupu i whakahokia e te iwi ki a ia. |
| Norwegian | Da trådte Elias frem for alt folket og sa: Hvor lenge vil I halte til begge sider? Dersom Herren er Gud, så følg ham, og dersom Ba'al er det, så følg ham! Men folket svarte ham ikke et ord. |
| Portuguese | E Elias se chegou a todo o povo, e disse: Até quando coxeareis entre dois pensamentos? Se o Senhor é Deus, segui-o; mas se Baal, segui-o. O povo, porém, não lhe respondeu nada. |
| Rumanian | Atunci Ilie s`a apropiat de tot poporul, wi a zis: ,,Pknq cknd vreyi sq wchiopqtayi de amkndouq picioarele? Dacq Domnul este Dumnezeu, mergeyi dupq El; iar dacq este Baal, mergeyi dupq Baal!`` Poporul nu i -a rqspuns nimic. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "balancing": counterbalancing, misbalancing, outbalancing, overbalancing, rebalancing, unbalancing. (additional references) | |
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"Balancing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alyansang, balancings, balnain, Bilainkin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "balancing" (pronounced ba"lunsing) |
| 8 | b a" l u n s i ng | rebalancing. |
| 6 | -l u n s i ng | silencing. |
| 5 | -u n s i ng | conferencing, distancing, experiencing, influencing, licensing, outdistancing, referencing, sentencing, sequencing, teleconferencing, videoconferencing. |
| 4 | -n s i ng | announcing, advancing, bouncing, commencing, condensing, convincing, dancing, denouncing, dispensing, enhancing, expensing, fencing, financing, freelancing, glancing, Lancing, lensing, mensing, mincing, pouncing, prancing, pronouncing, refinancing, renouncing, rinsing, romancing, sensing, trouncing, unconvincing, wincing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | annexing, accessing, acquiescing, addressing, affixing, amassing, assessing, basing, blessing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, compressing, confessing, conversing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispersing, displacing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enticing, erasing, expressing, facing, faxing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, lapsing, leasing, loosing, massing, menacing, messing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, practicing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pulsing, racing, reassessing, recessing, redressing, reducing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, sacrificing, seducing, servicing, showcasing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, unceasing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-g-i-l-n-n" | |
-1 letter: canaling, cannibal. | |
-2 letters: anginal, cabling, lancing. | |
-3 letters: agnail, alanin, angina, baaing, baling, banian, baning, caning, lacing. | |
-4 letters: abaci, acing, again, alang, algin, align, annal, banal, binal, blain, cabal, cabin, canal, canna, clang, cling, labia, lagan, lanai, liana, liang, ligan, linac, linga. | |
-5 letters: agin, alan, alba, alga, anal, anga, anil, anna, baal, bail, bang, bani, blin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-g-i-l-n-n" | |
+2 letters: rebalancing, unbalancing. | |
+3 letters: misbalancing, outbalancing, tabernacling. | |
+4 letters: cannibalising, cannibalizing, cannonballing, confabulating, overbalancing. | |
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