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Equal   /ˈikwəl/   Listen
adjective
Equal  adj.  
1.
Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; applied to number, degree, quantity, and intensity, and to any subject which admits of them; neither inferior nor superior, greater nor less, better nor worse; corresponding; alike; as, equal quantities of land, water, etc.; houses of equal size; persons of equal stature or talents; commodities of equal value.
2.
Bearing a suitable relation; of just proportion; having competent power, abilities, or means; adequate; as, he is not equal to the task. "The Scots trusted not their own numbers as equal to fight with the English." "It is not permitted to me to make my commendations equal to your merit." "Whose voice an equal messenger Conveyed thy meaning mild."
3.
Not variable; equable; uniform; even; as, an equal movement. "An equal temper."
4.
Evenly balanced; not unduly inclining to either side; characterized by fairness; unbiased; impartial; equitable; just. "Are not my ways equal?" "Thee, O Jove, no equal judge I deem." "Nor think it equal to answer deliberate reason with sudden heat and noise."
5.
Of the same interest or concern; indifferent. "They who are not disposed to receive them may let them alone or reject them; it is equal to me."
6.
(Mus.) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; opposed to mixed. (R.)
7.
(Math.) Exactly agreeing with respect to quantity.
Equal temperament. (Mus.) See Temperament.
Synonyms: Even; equable; uniform; adequate; proportionate; commensurate; fair; just; equitable.


noun
Equal  n.  
1.
One not inferior or superior to another; one having the same or a similar age, rank, station, office, talents, strength, or other quality or condition; an equal quantity or number; as, "If equals be taken from equals the remainders are equal." "Those who were once his equals envy and defame him."
2.
State of being equal; equality. (Obs.)


verb
Equal  v. t.  (past & past part. equaled or equalled; pres. part. equaling or equalling)  
1.
To be or become equal to; to have the same quantity, the same value, the same degree or rank, or the like, with. "On me whose all not equals Edward's moiety."
2.
To make equal return to; to recompense fully. "Who answered all her cares, and equaled all her love."
3.
To make equal or equal to; to equalize; hence, to compare or regard as equals; to put on equality. "He would not equal the mind that he found in himself to the infinite and incomprehensible."





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... 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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