noun, verb
noun [U]
1 a calm and confident manner with control of your feelings or behaviour:
His performance was full of maturity and poise. * She seemed embarrassed for a moment but quickly recovered her poise.
2 the ability to move or stand in a graceful way with good control of your body
verb to be or hold sth steady in a particular position, especially above sth else: [V, +adv./prep.] The hawk poised in mid-air ready to swoop. * [VNtoinf] He was poising himself to launch a final attack. * [VN+adv./prep.] She poised the javelin in her hand before the throw.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for poise is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does poise appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — poise appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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