Noun

• S: (n) balance (balance%1:26:00::) (a state of equilibrium)
• S: (n) balance (balance%1:21:00::) (equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account)
• S: (n) proportion (proportion%1:07:01::), proportionality (proportionality%1:07:00::), balance (balance%1:07:00::) (harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)) "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance"- John Ruskin
• S: (n) balance (balance%1:25:00::), equilibrium (equilibrium%1:25:00::), equipoise (equipoise%1:25:00::), counterbalance (counterbalance%1:25:00::) (equality of distribution)
• S: (n) remainder (remainder%1:24:00::), balance (balance%1:24:00::), residual (residual%1:24:00::), residue (residue%1:24:00::), residuum (residuum%1:24:00::), rest (rest%1:24:00::) (something left after other parts have been taken away) "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest"; "he took what he wanted and I got the balance"
• S: (n) balance (balance%1:21:01::) (the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account)
• S: (n) Libra (libra%1:18:00::), Balance (balance%1:18:00::) ((astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra)
• S: (n) Libra (libra%1:15:00::), Libra the Balance (libra_the_balance%1:15:00::), Balance (balance%1:15:00::), Libra the Scales (libra_the_scales%1:15:00::) (the seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22)
• S: (n) symmetry (symmetry%1:07:00::), symmetricalness (symmetricalness%1:07:00::), correspondence (correspondence%1:07:03::), balance (balance%1:07:02::) ((mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane)
• S: (n) counterweight (counterweight%1:06:00::), counterbalance (counterbalance%1:06:00::), counterpoise (counterpoise%1:06:00::), balance (balance%1:06:01::), equalizer (equalizer%1:06:00::), equaliser (equaliser%1:06:00::) (a weight that balances another weight)
• S: (n) balance wheel (balance_wheel%1:06:00::), balance (balance%1:06:02::) (a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat)
• S: (n) balance (balance%1:06:00::) (a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity)

Verb

• S: (v) balance (balance%2:42:00::), equilibrate (equilibrate%2:42:00::), equilibrize (equilibrize%2:42:00::), equilibrise (equilibrise%2:42:00::) (bring into balance or equilibrium) "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights"
• S: (v) balance (balance%2:40:00::) (compute credits and debits of an account)
• S: (v) poise (poise%2:35:01::), balance (balance%2:35:00::) (hold or carry in equilibrium)
• S: (v) balance (balance%2:42:01::) (be in equilibrium) "He was balancing on one foot"