/ˈiːkwəl/, /ˈiːkəl/
OriginFrom Middle English equal, from Latin aequālis. Doublet of aequalis and egal.
- not-comparable, usuallyThe same in one or more respects.
“Near-synonyms: equivalent; see also Thesaurus:equal”
“Dr. [Eugenia] Cheng's latest book, Unequal: The Math of When Things Do and Don’t Add Up, is all about equations and will be released in the United States on Tuesday. But it is more than a regurgitatio”
- not-comparable, usuallyThe same in value (status, merit, etc): having or deserving the same rights or treatment.
“We hold that all men are created equal and are thus equal under the law.”
“[Under] the combat exclusion [preventing women from serving in combat...] Women are not equal citizens; women are a certain kind of citizen, a separate class with distinctly lower status.”
“[…] women and men should be equal regarding civil rights / the right to occupational work.”
- not-comparable, usuallyThe same in all respects that matter practically; interchangeable, fungible, or (even sometimes) identical for practical purposes.
“Equal conditions should produce equal results.”
“All else being equal, we can expect this factor to have no discernible effect by itself.”
“They who are not disposed to receive them may let them alone or reject them; it is equal to me.”
- not-comparable, usuallyExactly identical, having the same value.
“All right angles are equal.”
“The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the off”
- not-comparable, obsolete, usuallyFair, impartial.
“it could not but much redound to the lustre of your milde and equall Government, when as private persons are hereby animated to thinke ye better pleas'd with publick advice, then other statists have b”
“Are not my ways equal?”
“Thee, O Jove, no equall judge I deem.”
- comparable, not-comparable, usuallyAdequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
“This test is pretty tough, but I think I'm equal to it.”
“Here was a man some twenty thousand miles from home, by the way of Cape Horn, that is—which was the only way he could get there—thrown among people as strange to him as though he were in the planet Ju”
“her comprehension was certainly more equal to the covert meaning, the superior intelligence, of those five letters so arranged.”
- not-comparable, obsolete, usuallyNot variable; equable; uniform; even.
“an equal movement”
“an equal temper”
- not-comparable, usuallyIntended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.
- copulativeTo be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.
“Two plus two equals four.”
- transitiveTo make equivalent to; to cause to match.
“David equaled the water levels of the bottles, so they now both contain exactly 1 liter.”
“There was an even more remarkable attendance figure that underscores the devotion exhibited by our fans, because it was in 1991 that they set a single season in-stadium attendance record that has neve”
- transitiveTo match in degree or some other quality, to match up to.
“And what delights can equal those
That stir the spirit’s inner deeps,
When one that loves but knows not, reaps
A truth from one that loves and knows?”
- copulative, informalTo have as consequence, to amount to, to mean.
“Losing this deal equals losing your job.”
“Might does not equal right.”
“Eclectic and sophisticated are hence coded as negative traits–so cool equaling not so cool–putting Swift in seemed lockstep with the anti-intellectual sentiment that's led to the astonishing 21st-Cent”
- countable, uncountableA person or thing of equal status to others.
“We're all equals here.”
“This beer has no equal.”
“Those who were once his equals envy and defame him.”
- countable, obsolete, uncountableState of being equal; equality.
“Thou that presum'st to weigh the world anew,
And all things to an equall to restore.”
Formsmore equal(comparative) · most equal(superlative) · æquall(alternative, obsolete) · æqual(alternative, archaic) · equals(present, singular, third-person) · equaling(US, participle, present) · equalling(UK, participle, present) · equaled(US, participle, past) · equaled(US, past) · equalled(UK, participle, past) · equalled(UK, past) · equals(plural)