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Meaning counterbalance meaning

What does counterbalance mean?

counterbalance

— noun (= balance) a weight that balances another weight — verb (= correct) adjust for engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance — noun a compensating equivalent — verb (= oppose) contrast with equal weight or force — verb (= counteract) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions This will counteract the foolish actions of my colleagues — noun (= balance) equality of distribution

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counterbalance English » English

counterpoise counterweight balance offset equipoise neutralize compensate poise oppose equilibrium equilibrate equalizer equaliser counterpose balance weight set against make up even up even out even off countervail counteract counter balance correct back balance weight counterbalance weight tension weight table balance stand-off square set right set off rectify parallel outweigh out-balance neutralise kite tail equiponderate equilibrant equal counterweigh correspond contrast compensation compensate for ballast balancing weight balanced

Conjugation counterbalance conjugation

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counterbalance · verb

Examples counterbalance examples

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Simple sentences

Tom, this lumber, sat at one end of this sentence, while, too light to counterbalance him, on the other side, sat Mary.

Movie subtitles

You know, Larry, belief in the hereafter is a very healthy counterbalance to all the conflicting doubts man is plagued with these days.
I'd drink to counterbalance despair.
And then one to counterbalance the counterbalance.
Edge back as far as you can go, to cou. to counterbalance me. Now.
For all I know, you may have intolerable faults to counterbalance your few good points.
You have to counterbalance the weight at the point where the lever pivots.
Because it's more dangerous for them to have you here, not that they don't want you, since they feel there should be some counterbalance, some quid pro quo.
So what's the counterbalance that you suggested?
The axis, light, mirrors weights, counterbalance.
They need some counterbalance.
You guys counterbalance, let's go.
You know, probably down deep in his heart, he wanted us all to have the letters, but higher on the list was the fact that it might counterbalance any of that anguish and anger that was exposed yesterday.
Shaped charge on the counterbalance cable, two on the primary and secondary brakes?
Divine and ridiculous just counterbalance each other, don't they?
An excellent counterbalance for Louis.
Any way at all? Counterbalance in the little town of ridgeview, ohio.
Edge back as far as you can go, to cou. to counterbalance me.
Put that counterbalance on that arm, with the key.
You would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance.
I hate everyone, and everything seems stupid to me but you were always the counterbalance to that the guy who was the yin to my yang.
There was no counterbalance to stagnation, to pessimism to the most abject surrender to mysticism.
I hate everyone, and everything seems stupid to me but you were always the counterbalance to that. the guy who was the yin to my yang.
But if you buy the votes for 70 million, the same amount as what she owes you, she would be able to counterbalance that debt.
When Einstein proposed his theory of space and time, he proposed this thing called the cosmological constant, which is this constant thing that pervades all of space, which would counterbalance the pull of matter.
Because I believe your brain produces enough serotonin to counterbalance your sister's influence, which is a result of your longtime, well, low-level exposure to her.
I think I know how they achieved counterbalance.
I don't know what you'd call it, but you know when you get the motorbikes with the sidecar racing and you get the guy on the side doing the counterbalance?
Anyway, I was driving, Michael was in the back doing counterbalance, and I'm here, passenger seat here.
He gave me such good counterbalance, it just flipped, and when it sort of landed again it caught so much traction that we just launched forward.
Then of course you've got James Hunt as the complete counterbalance to that.
Balance, counterbalance.
Maybe as he was stealing from others, he saw his work for us as a kind of. karmic counterbalance, a way to do some good to make up for the bad.

News and current affairs

Japan, in alliance with other Asian democracies, should be able to counterbalance China's growing power.
And the US cannot reach an accord with Pakistan without India's consent, which America would be unable to force, especially given that it relies on India to counterbalance China's growing clout in Asia.
Nor is there any evidence of benefits to counterbalance these negative effects.
The Cold War's bipolar governance structures and a subsequent period of American unilateralism - to which the non-aligned states attempted to act as a counterbalance - have given way to a much more complex and interdependent multi-polar world.
Under Saddam Hussein, restrictions were imposed on the Shiite seminary in Najaf - traditionally a counterbalance to Iran's Shiite establishment - forcing the emigration of a number of clerics to the Iranian seminary in Qom.
China, for example, has been attempting to use soft power to cultivate a less threatening image - one that it hopes will undermine, and even discourage, the coalitions that have been emerging to counterbalance its rising economic and military might.
Tiger mothering might seem to be a useful counterbalance to such permissiveness, but both extremes leave something out.
Second, they overestimated the extent to which quantitative easing (QE) by the monetary authorities - that is, printing money - could counterbalance fiscal tightening.
In a sense, these Sunni groups are creating an armed enclave in northern Lebanon to counterbalance the armed Shia enclaves in Beirut, the south, and the Bekaa region.
But, apart from its military strength, the USSR was never really powerful enough to counterbalance US influence.
More than half of the world's population now lives in cities, and any political renaissance must counterbalance the appeal of vast virtual communities with resilient urban societies.
But, despite deep historical animosity over World War II, there are increasing calls in the region for Japan to expand its influence to counterbalance China.
Such leverage could in turn prompt a downstream state to build up its military capacity to help counterbalance this disadvantage.
There is little doubt that the SCO is an instrument for Russia and China to make the case for a multi-polar world based on regional security blocs that counterbalance American strategic hegemony.
Partly motivated by a desire to counterbalance China's rising geopolitical influence, Japan and the US have sought to draw India into a multilateral alliance consisting of democratic countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
Other Asian countries might even be drawn closer to Japan, the only alternative to the US as a counterbalance to the Middle Kingdom.

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