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.
Pressure to implement the latest technology the fastest is real, as the earliest innovators are poised to reap the (potentially) biggest gains65.
Poised before his empty staves, what does the composer do if not improvise?
In contrast, a player who is truly free and poised will be able to move or remain still with little change to the performance.
To be visually conscious in general is to be poised to become aware of a present feature (that is, to become transitively conscious of it).
We are poised on the edge of the precipice of either great discoveries or major disasters.
They are rather poised between alternatives in the knowledge of their outcome, a rhetoric that historical writing can hope to imitate only in part.
They were now poised for the final showdown.
The central relationship of the poem is apparently unresolved, poised between anchored commitment and undone moorings.
