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Equal

adjective

1.

Having the same quantity, value, or measure as another. "All men are equal before the law"

2.

Having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task. Synonym: adequate. "Her training was adequate" , "She was adequate to the job" , "He was equal to the task"

noun

1.

A person who is of equal standing with another in a group. Synonyms: compeer, match, peer.

verb

(past & past part. equaled or equalled; pres. part. equaling or equalling)

1.

Be identical or equivalent to. Synonym: be.

2.

Be equal to in quality or ability. Synonyms: match, rival, touch. "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues" , "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"

3.

Make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching. Synonyms: equalise, equalize, equate, match. "The company matched the discount policy of its competitors"

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"Equal" Quotes from Famous Books

... loneliness and grandeur. He who had delighted as a poet in the English country, and more delighted as a Puritan in the fierce struggle for liberty, was now confined to a small house, going from study to porch, and finding both in equal darkness. He who had roamed as a master through the wide fields of literature was now dependent on a chance reader. His soul also was afflicted by the apparent loss of all that Puritanism had so hardly won, by the degradation of his country, by family troubles; ...

— Outlines of English and American Literature • William J. Long

... misunderstand the word common as here applied to the Saviour. It has the same meaning that is applied to a piece of land, to which many persons have an equal or common right; but which none but those, who have a right or title, can use. It strikingly illustrates the union of Christ ...

— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... is difficult for us to understand immediately. The scientist knows very well what a miracle is achieved by each child that is born into the world, when it first conquers its eyesight and compels it to obey its brain. An equal miracle is performed with each sense certainly, but this ordering of sight is perhaps the most stupendous effort. Yet the child does it almost unconsciously, by force of the powerful heredity of habit. No one now is aware that he has ever done it ...

— Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold • Mabel Collins

... you're dealing with such a tough gang as that," explained Bristles, "there's only one thing to do, and that's believe 'em equal to anything. I warrant you now that many a time it's only been the fear they have for our hustling little fire eater of a police officer, Chief Sutton, that's kept Buck and his crowd from trying a heap more stunts than they did. Remember when they cut the ...

— Fred Fenton Marathon Runner - The Great Race at Riverport School • Allen Chapman

... passengers to be in the beginning of this narrative, and incapable of any bodily motion without external impulse, it was in vain to leave the ship, or to determine to do it, without the assistance of others. In one instance, perhaps, the living, luggage is more difficult to be moved or removed than an equal or much superior weight of dead matter; which, if of the brittle kind, may indeed be liable to be broken through negligence; but this, by proper care, may be almost certainly prevented; whereas the fractures to which the living lumps are exposed are sometimes by no caution ...

— Journal of A Voyage to Lisbon • Henry Fielding

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