paise

Noun (1)

paisa (plural paisas or paise)

1. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Indian, Nepalese, or Pakistani rupee.
2. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Bangladeshi taka.
3. A subdivision of currency, equal to one thousandth of an Omani rial.
4. (historical) A subdivision of various former currencies of India.

Noun (2)

paisa (plural paisas)

1. (slang) A person hailing from the same country; in particular, a fellow Latino.
   • ... prison, talked about his relationship with drug traffickers in Mexico some twenty-five years before. His street gang had a relationship with a paisa wholesaler. An understanding of respect existed between Rubén's gang and its paisa supplier[…] Wrangler, a White man who associated with the Aryan...2022 August 15, Rajeev V. Gundur, Trying to Make It: The Enterprises, Gangs, and People of the American Drug Trade, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 168
2. (slang) A Latino who is not a gangster nor gang-affiliated.
   • [The story] came to me in various versions from marero and paisa inmates who had been incarcerated in the early 2000s. “El Spyder. I knew him. He was sureño,” said Carlos, an[…]2018 November 6, Anthony W. Fontes, Mortal Doubt: Transnational Gangs and Social Order in Guatemala City, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 86

Noun

poise (countable and uncountable, plural poises)

1. A state of balance, equilibrium or stability.
   • plants and animals, which are all made up of and nourished by water, and perhaps never return to water again, do not keep things at a poise1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693
2. Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation.
3. Mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body.
4. A condition of hovering, or being suspended.
5. A CGS unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimetre.
   • Letterpress and offset gloss varnishes normally have viscosities varying from 50 to 250 poises; they must stain the paper as little as possible, have insufficient tack to cause plucking, […]1959, E. A. Apps, Printing Ink Technology, page 415
6. (obsolete) Weight; an amount of weight, the amount something weighs.
   • as an huge rockie clift, / Whose false foundation waues haue washt away, / With dreadfull poyse is from the mayneland rift, / […] So downe he fell […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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