poisenoun詞源 1/pɔɪz/

• 1

  A state of balance, equilibrium or stability.

  • plants and animals, which are all made up of and nourished by water, and perhaps never return to water again, do not keep things at a poise
• 2

  Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation.

• 3

  Mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body.

• 4

  A condition of hovering, or being suspended.

• 5

  natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsA CGS unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimetre.

  • Letterpress and offset gloss varnishes normally have viscosities varying from 50 to 250 poises; they must stain the paper as little as possible, have insufficient tack to cause plucking, […]
• 6

  obsoleteWeight; an amount of weight, the amount something weighs.

  • as an huge rockie clift, / Whose false foundation waues haue washt away, / With dreadfull poyse is from the mayneland rift, / […] So downe he fell […]
• 7

  The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed.

• 8

  That which causes a balance; a counterweight.

  • As for Hyperboles, I will neither quote Lucan, nor Statius, Men of an unbounded imagination, but who often wanted the Poyze of Judgement.

poiseverb詞源 1/pɔɪz/

• 1

  obsoleteTo hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt.

  • The slender, graceful spars / Poise aloft in the air.
• 2

  obsoleteTo counterpoise; to counterbalance.

  • one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality
  • 1699, John Dryden, Epistle to John Dryden to poise with solid sense a sprightly wit
• 3

  obsoleteTo be of a given weight; to weigh.

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  obsoleteTo add weight to, to weigh down.

  • Every man poiseth [translating poise] upon his fellowes sinne, and elevates his owne.
• 5

  archaicTo hold (something) with or against something else in equilibrium; to balance, counterpose.

  • you saw her faire none els being by, / Her selfe poysd with her selfe in either eye.
• 6

  To hold (something) in equilibrium, to hold balanced and ready; to carry (something) ready to be used.

  • I poised the crowbar in my hand, and waited.
  • to poise the scales of a balance
• 7

  To keep (something) in equilibrium; to hold suspended or balanced.

  • The rock was poised precariously on the edge of the cliff.
• 8

  To ascertain, as if by balancing; to weigh.

  • He cannot sincerely consider the strength, poise the weight, and discern the evidence.

poisenoun詞源 2/pɔɪz/

• 1

  Unit of viscosity in the centimetre–gram–second system of units (CGS).