0 If an object or a part of your body is poised, it is completely still but ready to move at any moment:
1 showing very calm and controlled behaviour
2 ready to move, or prepared and waiting for something to happen:
4 ready to do a particular thing at any moment:
5 showing very calm and controlled behaviour:
She remained poised throughout the difficult presentation.
She watched a little white bird, poised on a branch and fluttering its wings.
Her finger was poised on the camera as she waited for them to take their positions.
The two guards stood poised with their shields and swords raised.
They are a privileged group, poised at the forefront of technological knowledge-based work.
The waxwork blacksmith, for example, could be poised ready to strike with his hammer at the forge.
She stood naked on one foot in front of the long mirror, arms poised as if she were about to dance.
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