BALANCING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does balancing mean? 

• BALANCING (noun)
  The noun BALANCING has 1 sense:

1. getting two things to correspond

  Familiarity information: BALANCING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BALANCING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Getting two things to correspond

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

balancing; reconciliation

Context example:

the reconciliation of his checkbook and the bank statement

Hypernyms ("balancing" is a kind of...):

equalisation; equalization; leveling (the act of making equal or uniform)

 Context examples 

Functional Activities Questionnaire (FAQ) Writing checks, paying bills, balancing checkbook.

(FAQ - Write checks, Pay bills, Balance checkbook, NCI Thesaurus)

All five were sitting up, balancing themselves upon their broad, powerful tails and their huge three-toed hind-feet, while with their small five-fingered front-feet they pulled down the branches upon which they browsed.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Functional Activities Questionnaire-NACC Version (FAQ-NACC Version) Writing checks, paying bills, balancing checkbook.

(FAQ-NACC Version - Write checks, Pay bills, Balance checkbook, NCI Thesaurus)

Nrf2 activation of genes is opposed by small maf proteins, including MafG and MafK, maintaining a counterbalance to Nrf2 and balancing the oxidation level of the intracellular environment.

(Oxidative Stress Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

“God guard thee, my lord!” she answered, speaking in the broadest West Saxon speech, and balancing herself first on one foot and then on the other in her bashfulness.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He sprang to his feet, drew and opened a sailor's clasp-knife, and balancing it open on the palm of his hand, threatened to pin the doctor to the wall.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Her research indicated that the body does a “balancing act” using sodium to control potassium levels in the blood.

(Study: Fruits and Vegetables Can Lower Blood Pressure, VOA)

The researchers found that the kidney conserves or releases water by balancing levels of sodium, potassium, and the waste product urea.

(How the body regulates salt levels, NIH)

I could not help laughing again, at his balancing all callings and professions so equally; and I told him so.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)