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Antonyms for equate

Grammar : Verb
Spell : ih-kweyt
Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈkweɪt

Definition of equate

Origin :
  • early 15c., from Latin aequatus "level, levelled, even," past participle of aequare "make even or uniform, make equal," from aequus "level, even, equal" (see equal (adj.)). Earliest use in English was of astrological calculation, then "to make equal;" meaning "to regard as equal" is early 19c. Related: Equated; equating.
  • verb balance; think of together
Example sentences :
  • "By God, if he should try that—to equate her from Logical into reject—" He gestured helplessly.
  • Extract from : « We're Friends, Now » by Henry Hasse
  • One could not equate human ethics with the ethics of the Cytha.
  • Extract from : « The World That Couldn't Be » by Clifford Donald Simak
  • It is a more serious difficulty that Paul knows of no Longobardic king with a name which we can equate with Sceaf.
  • Extract from : « Beowulf » by R. W. Chambers
  • No one aware of the dynamics of work and life today can equate the notion of majority with democracy.
  • Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
  • The difficulty for Germany was, how to equate her world-wide ambitions with the restricted and diverse aims of Austria and Italy.
  • Extract from : « The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) » by John Holland Rose
  • This will have to be reduced by nearly one-half, to equate it with the present measures of length.
  • Extract from : « Mythical Monsters » by Charles Gould
  • Casembe sat before his hut on a equate seat placed on lion and leopard skins.
  • Extract from : « The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 » by David Livingstone
  • Thousands of differences perplex the attempt to equate the measure of moral desert to men.
  • Extract from : « Theoretical Ethics » by Milton Valentine
  • Plato had the ideal of an education which should equate individual realization and social coherency and stability.
  • Extract from : « Democracy and Education » by John Dewey
  • In other words, taxes and profits, by the operation of the laws of human nature, constantly tend to equate themselves.
  • Extract from : « Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, February 1899 » by Various

Synonyms for equate

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