Difference between counterpose and poise
Definitions
verb
- constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to
Examples
Another key is cultivating a political outlook that does not counterpose solidarity and diversity so that more of one means less of the other.
The European Union is facing very high unemployment, and two antagonistic social logics are counterposed to each other.
The novelty of this book is that it counterposes sociobiology to developmental biology rather than its traditional foe, anti-biological approaches to human sociality.
Definitions
noun
- a state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium
- great coolness and composure under strain
- 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
verb
- prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult
- hold or carry in equilibrium
- cause to be balanced or suspended
- be motionless, in suspension
Examples
I wrote it early in 1945 and it was published in Wireless World in October, just after the war had ended, and it laid down the principles which now determine the world's communication system, the idea that you'd have satellites poised at such a height above the earth that they remained stationery in the sky and so-called synchronous, or geostationary, orbit.
On this side of the Atlantic, the word means “style” or perhaps “poise” or “polish,” as in classy or a class act.
Unlike other porpoises and dolphins, belugas are quite leisurely.
