GR translation: poised

[Paul Mackin]

On 7/9/2011 8:39 PM, Jed Kelestron wrote:
> I would say the athletes are poised in this sense:
>
> 3 : to draw up into readiness : put into a position or attitude of
> readiness<poised their armies for the battle>; especially : BRACE
> <poised themselves for the ordeal awaiting them>
> intransitive verb
> 1 : to become drawn up into readiness for something<knew that they
> were poising for the encounter>
>
> And Katje in this sense:
>
> (2) : to keep (as something that is supported or suspended) in a
> steady position : keep from going one way or the other : STABILIZE
> <the nonchalance with which the steersman poised the canoe -- Ernest
> Beaglehole>  d : to hold or carry (as the head) in a particular way
> <poised her head disdainfully -- G.B.Shaw>
>
> from "poise." Webster's Third New International Dictionary,
> Unabridged. Merriam-Webster, 2002.
> http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com (9 Jul. 2011).
>
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> On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Mike Jing<mikezjing at hotmail.com>  wrote:
>> P90.14-15 He gets flashes of them these days, naked, athletes poised and breathing about the chamber, ...
>>
>> P96.5-6  ..., frock, face, hair, hands, slender calves all gone to glass and glazing, for the celluloid instant poised--...
>>
>> I'm having trouble finding the best translation for "poised".  Which of these meanings is best:
>>
>> 1. (of a person) composed, dignified, and self-assured.
>> 2. being in balance or equilibrium: a balloon poised on the nose of a seal.
>> 3. teetering or wavering: to be poised on the brink of disaster. EXPAND
>> 4. hovering or suspended in or as in midair: a bird poised in flight; a helicopter poised overhead.
>> Is there any other meaning not included here?
>>
Earlier Teddy Bloat had a forkful of bananas glacees poised fashionably 
in the air.