All 3 Uses of
poise
in
Brave New World
- At eight hundred feet Henry slowed down the helicopter screws, and they hung for a minute or two poised above the fading landscape.
p. 72..9 *poised = suspended
- Like locusts they came, hung poised, descended all around him on the heather.
p. 255..1
- Yet another helicopter had arrived from across the Hog's Back, hung poised above the crowd, then dropped within a few yards of where the Savage was standing, in the open space between the line of sightseers and the lighthouse.
p. 257..0
Definition:
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(poise) calm and in control -- as in "shows poise under pressure"
and/or:
prepared for action -- as in "poised for action" -- (sometimes suspended or hovering as in "a finger poised over the mute button")
and/or:
confident and graceful in movement -- as in "the poise and balance of a dancer"