Poise vs. Grace
Poise and Grace Definitions
Poise
To carry or hold in equilibrium; balance
I poised the pencil on the edge of the table.
Grace
Seemingly effortless beauty or charm of movement, form, or proportion.
Poise
To cause to be ready or about to do something
She is poised to win the nomination.
Grace
A characteristic or quality pleasing for its charm or refinement.
Poise
To be balanced or held in suspension
She poised at the end of the diving board.
Grace
A sense of fitness or propriety.
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Poise
Confident composure; self-possession
Answered the reporters' questions with poise.
Grace
A disposition to be generous or helpful; goodwill.
Poise
Bearing of the body, especially when graceful
A ballerina's poise.
Grace
Mercy; clemency.
Poise
A centimeter-gram-second unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter.
Grace
A favor rendered by one who need not do so; indulgence.
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Poise
A state of balance, equilibrium or stability.
Grace
A temporary immunity or exemption; a reprieve.
Poise
Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation.
Grace
Graces Greek & Roman Mythology Three sister goddesses, known in Greek mythology as Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, who dispense charm and beauty.
Poise
Mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body.
Grace
Divine favor bestowed freely on people, as in granting redemption from sin.
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Poise
A condition of hovering, or being suspended.
Grace
The state of having received such favor.
Poise
(physics) A CGS unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimetre.
Grace
An excellence or power granted by God.
Poise
(obsolete) Weight; an amount of weight, the amount something weighs.
Grace
A short prayer of blessing or thanksgiving said before or after a meal.
Poise
The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed.
Grace
Grace Used with His, Her, or Your as a title and form of address for a duke, duchess, or archbishop.
Poise
That which causes a balance; a counterweight.
Grace
(Music) An appoggiatura, trill, or other musical ornament in the music of 16th and 17th century England.
Poise
(obsolete) To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt.
Grace
To honor or favor
You grace our table with your presence.
Poise
(obsolete) To counterpoise; to counterbalance.
Grace
To give beauty, elegance, or charm to.
Poise
(obsolete) To be of a given weight; to weigh.
Grace
(Music) To embellish with grace notes.
Poise
(obsolete) To add weight to, to weigh down.
Grace
Charming, pleasing qualities.
The Princess brought grace to an otherwise dull and boring party.
Poise
To hold (something) with or against something else in equilibrium; to balance, counterpose.
Grace
(countable) A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.
It has become less common to say grace before having dinner.
Poise
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
Grace
In the games of patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules.
Poise
To keep (something) in equilibrium; to hold suspended or balanced.
The rock was poised precariously on the edge of the cliff.
Grace
A grace note.
Poise
To ascertain, as if by balancing; to weigh.
Grace
(uncountable) Elegant movement; balance or poise.
The dancer moved with grace and strength.
Poise
Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness.
Grace
An allowance of time granted to a debtor during which he or she is free of at least part of his normal obligations towards the creditor.
The repayment of the loan starts after a three-year grace.
Poise
The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed.
Grace
Free and undeserved favour, especially of God; unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification, or for resisting sin.
Poise
The state of being balanced by equal weight or power; equipoise; balance; equilibrium; rest.
Grace
An act or decree of the governing body of an English university.
Poise
That which causes a balance; a counterweight.
Men of unbounded imagination often want the poise of judgment.
Grace
(transitive) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
He graced the room with his presence.
He graced the room by simply being there.
His portrait graced a landing on the stairway.
Poise
A dignified and self-confident manner; graceful composure and tact in handling difficult social situations.
Grace
(transitive) To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour.
Poise
To balance; to make of equal weight; as, to poise the scales of a balance.
Grace
(transitive) To supply with heavenly grace.
Poise
To hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance.
Nor yet was earth suspended in the sky;Nor poised, did on her own foundation lie.
Grace
To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.
Poise
To counterpoise; to counterbalance.
One scale of reason to poise another of sensuality.
To poise with solid sense a sprightly wit.
Grace
The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.
To bow and sue for graceWith suppliant knee.
Poise
To ascertain, as by the balance; to weigh.
He can not sincerely consider the strength, poise the weight, and discern the evidence.
Grace
The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor.
And if by grace, then is it no more of works.
My grace is sufficicnt for thee.
Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand.
Poise
To weigh (down); to oppress.
Lest leaden slumber peise me down to-morrow.
Grace
The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon.
Poise
To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt.
The slender, graceful sparsPoise aloft in air.
Grace
Fortune; luck; - used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune.
Poise
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
Grace
Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit.
He is complete in feature and in mind.With all good grace to grace a gentleman.
I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing.
Poise
A state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium
Grace
Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form.
Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else.
I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift.
Poise
Great coolness and composure under strain;
Keep your cool
Grace
Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse.
The Graces love to weave the rose.
The Loves delighted, and the Graces played.
Poise
Be motionless, in suspension;
The bird poised for a few moments before it attacked
Grace
The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England.
How fares your Grace !
Poise
Prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult
Grace
Thanks.
Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus.
Poise
Cause to be balanced or suspended
Grace
A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal.
Poise
Hold or carry in equilibrium
Grace
Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc.
Grace
An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree.
Grace
A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops.
That day of grace fleets fast away.
The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health.
To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper.
Content to do the profession some grace.
What might have been done with a good grace would at leastbe done with a bad grace.
Grace
To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line.
We are graced with wreaths of victory.
Grace
To dignify or raise by an act of favor; to honor.
He might, at his pleasure, grace or disgrace whom he wouldin court.
Grace
To supply with heavenly grace.
Grace
To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.
Grace
(Bhristian theology) a state of sanctification by God; the state of one who under such divine influence;
The conception of grace developed alongside the conception of sin
It was debated whether saving grace could be obtained outside the membership of the church
The Virgin lived in a state of grace
Grace
Elegance and beauty of movement or expression
Grace
A sense of propriety and consideration for others
Grace
A disposition to kindness and compassion; benign good will;
The victor's grace in treating the vanquished
Grace
(Greek mythology) one of three sisters who were the givers of beauty and charm; a favorite subject for sculptors
Grace
A short prayer of thanks before a meal
Grace
(Christian theology) the free and unmerited favor or beneficence of God;
God's grace is manifested in the salvation of sinners
There but for the grace of God go I
Grace
Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.;
Decorate the room for the party
Beautify yourself for the special day
Grace
Be beautiful to look at;
Flowers adorned the tables everywhere
