Clues for the word "BALANCE"
We've had 56 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 84 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Quick crossword on May 18, 2026.
Definition of balance
- n. - An apparatus for weighing.
- n. - Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate.
- n. - Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.
- n. - The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness.
- n. - An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account.
- n. - A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary).
- n. - The constellation Libra.
- n. - The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September.
- n. - A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i., S.
- n. - To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance.
- n. - To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope.
- n. - To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize.
- n. - To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
- n. - To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them.
- n. - To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal; -- said of an item; as, this payment, or credit, balances the account.
- n. - To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits; as, to balance a set of books.
- n. - To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners.
- n. - To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail.
- v. i. - To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance.
- v. i. - To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate.
- v. i. - To move toward a person or couple, and then back.
Referring Clues
- Acrobat's skill
- Account number
- What's left
- ___ of terror (nuclear arms distribution)
- Be even
- Counterpoise
- Even out
- Skier's asset
- Bank-account current total
- ATM readout
- Equilibrium
- Account amount
- Checkbook column
- Equilibrum
- Journalistic ideal
- Tightrope-walking need
- Emotional stability
- On ___ (all things considered)
- Remainder
- ___ beam
- Rest that's essential for tightrope-walker?
- Equilibrate
- Poise
- Discipline required to put scales on ray
- Cab lane (anag)
- Scale of clean break by fliers ...
- Pair of scales
- If you lose it you may slip - into the red?
- The remainder can be packed in a bundle
- Graduate to pierce scales
- Libra - amount in account
- One weighed down by scruples
- Square the difference
- Yogini's skill
- 7 to graduate weapon
- It weighs what's left
- Scale of what 20 may hold
- Graduate, boy with emotional stability
- First to brandish a weapon shows poise
- Set of scales
- Equanimity
- Graduate gets weapon that's left over
- The rest may be in the bank
- Means of weighing what's left over
- Tightrope walker's asset
- Rest that's essential for tightrope-walker?
- Tightrope walker's skill
- Bank account's current total
- What remains of one's equilibrium
- North American scientific establishment rejected church correspondence
- Weighing device
- Steadiness
- Yoga asset
- Tightrope walker's need
- ATM display
- Parity
Last Seen In
- Daily Quick - May 18, 2026
- Mirror Mini - March 06, 2026
- New York Times - January 31, 2026
- Daily Quick - November 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 14, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 17, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 03, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 29, 2025
- Mirror Mini - March 05, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 02, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - February 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 24, 2025
- USA Today - December 28, 2024
- Daily American - November 30, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - July 16, 2024
- Daily Quick - May 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - March 05, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - February 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - December 18, 2023
- Daily Quick - November 18, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - September 17, 2023
- Your Life Choices - September 04, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 31, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - April 10, 2023
- Daily Quick - March 02, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - February 19, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - February 15, 2023
- Daily American - November 30, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - August 25, 2022
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