balance – English noun declension

English noun forms of balance

Noun: balance
Singularbalance
Pluralbalances

Sample Sentences

  • But civilized man is quite a different animal, and when he wipes out an entire city or levels a forest, he is no longer working within the natural balance of things. [1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 196:]
  • These weights are used as a balance for the overhanging verandah.
  • Blair thought he could provide a useful balance to Bush's policies.
  • The balance of power finally lay with the Royalist forces.
  • I think the balance of opinion is that we should get out while we're ahead.
  • The shift in the balance of power online has allowed anyone to publish to the world, from dispirited teenagers in south London to an anonymous cyber-dissident in a Middle East autocracy. [2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:]
  • I just need to nip to a bank and check my balance.
  • The balance of the agreement remains in effect.
  • The invoice said he had only paid $50. The balance was $220.
  • Balance Luzon

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
3. Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
4. Proto-Italic *dwi-
5. Latin bi-
6. Latin lanx
7. Latin bilanx
8. Vulgar Latin *bilancia
9. Old French balancebor.
10. Middle English balaunce
11. English balance
12. From Middle English balaunce, from Old French balance, from Late Latin *bilancia, from (accusative form of) Latin bilanx (“two-scaled”), from bi- + lanx (“plate, scale”).
13. Displaced the word — Old English wǣġ akin to Modern English: wey from Proto-West Germanic *wāgu (“scales; weight”). See: Middle English Nouns 'balaunce', Latin Nouns 'bilanx'.

Verbs referencing "balance"

Spanish Nouns balanza.