All 5 Uses of
poise
in
Nine Stories
- For poise, I picked up a stone and threw it at a tree.†
Story 4
- The next thing I knew, the young lady was standing, with enviable poise, beside my table.†
Story 6
- She blushed-automatically conferring on me the social poise I'd been missing.†
Story 6
- After making this last entry, Teddy continued to keep his attention on the page and his ball-point pen poised, as though there were more to come.†
Story 9 *
- The young man had a kind of poise about him, though, that looked as though it might hold up indefinitely, with the very small proviso that he keep at least one hand in one pocket.†
Story 9
Definitions:
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(1)
(poise) calm, confident, and in control—especially in movement, behavior, or when ready to act
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, poise is a technical word referencing a unit of dynamic viscosity.