Balance vs. Scale

Balancenoun

(uncountable) A state in which opposing forces harmonise; equilibrium.

Balancenoun

(uncountable) Mental equilibrium; mental health; calmness, a state of remaining clear-headed and unperturbed.

Balancenoun

Something of equal weight used to provide equilibrium; counterweight.

Balancenoun

A pair of scales.

Balancenoun

(uncountable) Awareness of both viewpoints or matters; neutrality; rationality; objectivity.

Balancenoun

(uncountable) The overall result of conflicting forces, opinions etc.; the influence which ultimately "weighs" more than others.

Balancenoun

(uncountable) Apparent harmony in art (between differing colours, sounds, etc.).

Balancenoun

(accounting) A list accounting for the debits on one side, and for the credits on the other.

Balancenoun

(accounting) The result of such a procedure; the difference between credit and debit of an account.

Balancenoun

(watchmaking) A device used to regulate the speed of a watch, clock etc.

Balancenoun

The remainder.

Balancenoun

Libra.

Balanceverb

(transitive) To bring (items) to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights.

Balanceverb

To make (concepts) agree.

Balanceverb

(transitive) To hold (an object or objects) precariously; to support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling.

Balanceverb

(transitive) To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.

Balanceverb

To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally.

Balanceverb

(nautical) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass.

Balanceverb

(transitive) To make the credits and debits of (an account) correspond.

Balanceverb

(intransitive) To be in equilibrium.

Balanceverb

(intransitive) To have matching credits and debits.

Balancenoun

An apparatus for weighing.

Balancenoun

Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate.

Balancenoun

Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.

Balancenoun

The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness.

Balancenoun

An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; - also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account.

Balancenoun

A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary).

Balancenoun

The constellation Libra.

Balancenoun

A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. t., 8.

Balanceverb

To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance.

Balanceverb

To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope.

Balanceverb

To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize.

Balanceverb

To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.

Balanceverb

To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them.

Balanceverb

To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal; - said of an item; as, this payment, or credit, balances the account.

Balanceverb

To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits; as, to balance a set of books.

Balanceverb

To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners.

Balanceverb

To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail.

Balanceverb

To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance.

Balanceverb

To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate.

Balanceverb

To move toward a person or couple, and then back.

Balancenoun

a state of equilibrium

Balancenoun

a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity

Balancenoun

equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account

Balancenoun

harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design);

Balancenoun

equality of distribution

Balancenoun

something left after other parts have been taken away;

Balancenoun

the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account

Balancenoun

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun in in Libra

Balancenoun

the seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22

Balancenoun

(mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact correspondence of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane

Balancenoun

an equivalent counterbalancing weight

Balancenoun

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

Balanceverb

bring into balance or equilibrium;

Balanceverb

compute credits and debits of an account

Balanceverb

hold or carry in equilibrium

Balanceverb

be in equilibrium;

Scalenoun

(obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.

Scalenoun

An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.

Scalenoun

Size; scope.

Scalenoun

The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.

Scalenoun

A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced

Scalenoun

(music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.

Scalenoun

A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.

Scalenoun

Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.

Scalenoun

A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union.

Scalenoun

Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.

Scalenoun

A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.

Scalenoun

A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.

Scalenoun

Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.

Scalenoun

The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.

Scalenoun

Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).

Scalenoun

Limescale.

Scalenoun

A scale insect.

Scalenoun

The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.

Scalenoun

A device to measure mass or weight.

Scalenoun

Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.

Scaleverb

(transitive) To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.

Scaleverb

(transitive) To climb to the top of.

Scaleverb

To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.

Scaleverb

(transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.

Scaleverb

(transitive) To remove the scales of.

Scaleverb

(intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.

Scaleverb

(transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.

Scaleverb

(transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.

Scaleverb

(intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.

Scaleverb

To scatter; to spread.

Scaleverb

(transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.

Scalenoun

The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; - chiefly used in the plural when applied to the whole instrument or apparatus for weighing. Also used figuratively.

Scalenoun

The sign or constellation Libra.

Scalenoun

One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid.

Scalenoun

Hence, any layer or leaf of metal or other material, resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish; as, a scale of iron, of bone, etc.

Scalenoun

One of the small scalelike structures covering parts of some invertebrates, as those on the wings of Lepidoptera and on the body of Thysanura; the elytra of certain annelids. See Lepidoptera.

Scalenoun

A scale insect. (See below.

Scalenoun

A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff on the stems of ferns.

Scalenoun

The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife. See Illust. of Pocketknife.

Scalenoun

An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler.

Scalenoun

The thin oxide which forms on the surface of iron forgings. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide, Fe3O4. Also, a similar coating upon other metals.

Scalenoun

A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.

Scalenoun

Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals.

Scalenoun

Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order; as, a scale of being.

Scalenoun

Relative dimensions, without difference in proportion of parts; size or degree of the parts or components in any complex thing, compared with other like things; especially, the relative proportion of the linear dimensions of the parts of a drawing, map, model, etc., to the dimensions of the corresponding parts of the object that is represented; as, a map on a scale of an inch to a mile.

Scaleverb

To weigh or measure according to a scale; to measure; also, to grade or vary according to a scale or system.

Scaleverb

To strip or clear of scale or scales; as, to scale a fish; to scale the inside of a boiler.

Scaleverb

To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.

Scaleverb

To scatter; to spread.

Scaleverb

To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.

Scaleverb

To separate and come off in thin layers or laminæ; as, some sandstone scales by exposure.

Scaleverb

To separate; to scatter.

Scaleverb

To climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder; to ascend by steps or by climbing; to clamber up; as, to scale the wall of a fort.

Scaleverb

To lead up by steps; to ascend.

Scalenoun

an ordered reference standard;

Scalenoun

relative magnitude;

Scalenoun

the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it;

Scalenoun

an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks

Scalenoun

a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin

Scalenoun

a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin

Scalenoun

(music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)

Scalenoun

a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass

Scalenoun

a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)

Scalenoun

a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals

Scaleverb

measure by or as if by a scale;

Scaleverb

pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard

Scaleverb

take by attacking with scaling ladders;

Scaleverb

reach the highest point of;

Scaleverb

climb up by means of a ladder

Scaleverb

remove the scales from;

Scaleverb

measure with or as if with scales;

Scaleverb

size or measure according to a scale;