Synonyms for poise
pɔɪzpoise

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1. poisenoun

   a cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter; the viscosity of a fluid in which a force of one dyne per square centimeter maintains a velocity of 1 centimeter per second

   Synonyms:
   assuredness, sang-froid, aplomb, cool

2. poisenoun

   a state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium

   Synonyms:
   assuredness, sang-froid, aplomb, cool

3. aplomb, assuredness, cool, poise, sang-froidverb

   great coolness and composure under strain

   "keep your cool"

   Synonyms:
   assuredness, sang-froid, aplomb, cool

4. poiseverb

   be motionless, in suspension

   "The bird poised for a few moments before it attacked"

   Synonyms:
   brace, balance

5. brace, poiseverb

   prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult

   Synonyms:
   brace, stabilize, energize, arouse, energise, stabilise, steady, balance, perk up, stimulate

6. poiseverb

   cause to be balanced or suspended

   Synonyms:
   brace, balance

7. poise, balanceverb

   hold or carry in equilibrium

   Synonyms:
   equilibrize, brace, equilibrate, balance, equilibrise

Matched Categories

1. • Equilibrium
   • Hold
   • Hover
   • Place
   • Unit Of Viscosity

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   Submitted by rinat on August 11, 2019  

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1. poisenoun

   Synonyms:
   balance, equilibrium, equipoise

2. poiseverb

   Synonyms:
   balance, hold or place in equilibrium

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1. poisenoun

   Synonyms:
   equipoise, balance, equilibrium

2. poiseverb

   Synonyms:
   balance, librate

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1. List of paraphrases for "poise":

   aplomb, temper, cursor, composure

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1. Robert Brown:

   This was a very innocuous situation that was escalated by the deputies, if those young men had not maintained their poise. Let's say they walked towards the officers to try to explain what had happened to them or if they reached for a cellphone to call their parents, they could have potentially been shot or seriously injured or killed.

2. P. G. Wodehouse:

   At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

3. Kelley Koch:

   We don’t want two strong candidates to shred each other and duke it out in the boxing ring and see the best man standing, hopefully grace, dignity, poise, smarts, calculation – because in the end we’re all wanting to support the nominee.

4. Ryan Johansen:

   It was probably a little more on us and how we sat back and didn’t have enough poise and continue to make plays and have the pace that we were having in the second period especially, that was kind of what we wanted to get back to in overtime, and obviously they scored early on.

5. Connor Murphy:

   He's a competitor and he seems to have that poise about him, he's impressive.