equal
IPA: ˈikwʌɫ
noun
- A person or thing of equal status to others.
- (obsolete) State of being equal; equality.
verb
- (mathematics, copulative) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.
- (transitive) To make equivalent to; to cause to match.
- (informal) To have as its consequence.
adjective
- (not comparable) The same in all respects.
- (mathematics, not comparable) Exactly identical, having the same value.
- (obsolete) Fair, impartial.
- (comparable) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
- (obsolete) Not variable; equable; uniform; even.
- (music) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.
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Examples of "equal" in Sentences
- The countryside is equally engrossing.
- Equal treatment is a matter of equity.
- The expression equals the infinitesimal.
- Equally dangerous to the boar was the bear.
- The second equality is not in the definition.
- Equal is balanced by the prominence of the views.
- It is equal to the linear rank of the derivative.
- Homosexuals, like everybody else in the UK, are equal in the eyes of the law.
- They are equally obstinate and gluttonous and are always arguing like siblings.
- Emilia, instead of being equally in love with two men at the same time, prefers maidenhood to marriage.
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