": marked by lack of variation or change : uniform":[
"an equable distance apart"
]
},
"examples":[
"an area with an equable climate would be our first choice for a place in which to settle",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"It\u2019s here, in the narration, that the novel finds itself \u2014 in the equable plainness of its language, a plainness that is nevertheless impressionistic and light-filled. \u2014 Samantha Harvey, New York Times , 16 Mar. 2020",
"Espionage and intelligence are so conducive to mistrust that the people who make the best use of them tend to be the most equable and disinclined to suspicion. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 26 Aug. 2019"
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"1677, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Latin aequabilis , from aequare to make level or equal, from aequus":""
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for equable steady , even , equable mean not varying throughout a course or extent. steady implies lack of fluctuation or interruption of movement. steady progress even suggests a lack of variation in quality or character. an even distribution equable implies lack of extremes or of sudden sharp changes. maintain an equable temper",
"We divided the profits into three equal shares.",
"The play combines tragedy and comedy in equal measure.",
"The opposing candidate has demanded equal time on television.",
"The fractions 1/2 and 2/4 are equal .",
"providing equal opportunities for children of all races",
"We need to have equal academic standards for male and female students.",
"Noun",
"I consider him my equal .",
"We are all equals here.",
"Verb",
"Nothing can ever equal that experience.",
"See if you can equal that!",
"a weight lifter attempting to equal his rival's performance",
"No one can equal him in chess.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The marquee ingredient, of course, is mayonnaise \u2014 an American staple, beloved and scorned in equal measure. \u2014 New York Times , 29 June 2022",
"Its members desired, vilified and feared her figure in equal measure. \u2014 Pablo Sandoval, Variety , 27 June 2022",
"Pops, who was in equal measure idealistic and shrewd, saw a growing appetite, among white listeners as well as Black, for his message songs. \u2014 David Remnick, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
"This classic set offers loungewear coziness and wear-to-work polish in equal measure thanks to its oversized fit. \u2014 Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR , 24 June 2022",
"Still, the season 4 finale itself gives us an idea of what\u2019s to come: The Hargreeves siblings are suddenly powerless, which worries and titillates them in equal measure. \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 23 June 2022",
"Probably the best of the lot is Swimming With Sharks, a Hollywood drama starring Kiernan Shipka as a young assistant with dreams and schemes in equal measure. \u2014 PCMAG , 22 June 2022",
"Created by Katori Hall and played flawlessly by Nicco Annan, the P-Valley breakout character is entertaining and trailblazing in equal measure. \u2014 Alamin Yohannes, EW.com , 19 June 2022",
"The answer \u2014 and Langewiesche does propose one, satisfying and unsatisfying in equal measure \u2014 is long, complicated, and involves a necessary amount of conspiracy. \u2014 Lisa Bubert, Longreads , 15 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The Cardinals don\u2019t have an equal for Hillmon, but Engstler could draw the heart of the Michigan defense out to the perimeter. \u2014 Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press , 28 Mar. 2022",
"The sides are emblazoned with Berkeley, Abu Garcia, Plano, Push-Pole and other sponsor logos the equal of any NASCAR ride. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 9 Mar. 2022",
"For decades, champions of the video game industry have touted gaming\u2019s cultural impact as the equal of literature, film and music. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Apr. 2020",
"After years atop the hill, our hero Wrangler has an equal for the throne. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 10 July 2021",
"The objective, say Chinese officials, was to make clear that Beijing sees itself as an equal of the U.S. \u2014 Bob Davis, WSJ , 12 Apr. 2021",
"While considered by many experts as the equal of the Sabre, Spencer believes the Soviet jet might have had a slight advantage. \u2014 David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 Apr. 2021",
"Those early critics eventually became among his closest allies and Turley their professional equal . \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 May 2020",
"That someone regards you and treats you as an equal is the first square on the board of finding a partner or friend. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Nov. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Louis Quatorze, 16th in the Kentucky Derby, runs 1 3-16 miles in 1:53 2-5 to equal the race record set by Tank\u2019s Prospect in 1985. \u2014 Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times , 17 May 2022",
"His most optimistic forecast posits that Tesla will sell 7 million cars in 2030, capturing 27% of global deliveries (a big increase from today), at a 9% profit margin, which would equal the industry-leading numbers posted in recent years by Toyota. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 23 May 2022",
"British military aid to Ukraine has topped half a billion dollars which, if combined with humanitarian and economic aid, would equal a little over $1 billion. \u2014 Ben Evansky, Fox News , 11 Apr. 2022",
"And by 2032, annual interest payments are on track to equal 3.3% of gross domestic product, which would be the highest level in American history. \u2014 Ben Ritz, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"No expectation existed for his successor to equal that type of defense, yet Kevin Smith is playing more than capably at the position. \u2014 Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle , 23 May 2022",
"Judge Terry Green said that law improperly mandated heterogeneous boards and must protect the right of individuals to equal treatment. \u2014 Theo Francis, WSJ , 16 May 2022",
"It\u2019s Cowboys-Buccaneers in Week 1 again, and \u2014 although there\u2019s nothing to equal the showdown with Bill Belichick \u2014 an early-season matchup between Kansas City and Tampa Bay. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
"The fifth-year salary for a player who has been chosen once in his first three seasons as original-ballot Pro Bowler is elevated to equal the transition tender. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 29 Apr. 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":"Adjective",
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for equal Adjective same , selfsame , very , identical , equivalent , equal mean not different or not differing from one another. same may imply and selfsame always implies that the things under consideration are one thing and not two or more things. took the same route derived from the selfsame source very , like selfsame , may imply identity, or, like same may imply likeness in kind. the very point I was trying to make identical may imply selfsameness or suggest absolute agreement in all details. identical results equivalent implies amounting to the same thing in worth or significance. two houses equivalent in market value equal implies being identical in value, magnitude, or some specified quality. equal shares in the business",
": an employer who agrees not to discriminate against any employee or job applicant because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, or age":[]
": a guarantee under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that a state must treat an individual or class of individuals the same as it treats other individuals or classes in like circumstances":[]
"The document, obviously, thus contained no guarantee of equal protection anywhere, including the Bill of Rights. \u2014 James Oakes, The New York Review of Books , 12 May 2022",
"In addition to due process, Obergefell v. Hodges relies on the equal protection clause of the Constitution\u2019s 14th Amendment. \u2014 Julie Moreau, NBC News , 8 June 2022",
"The letter contrasts with a California judge\u2019s recent ruling that such a requirement\u2014law there since 2018\u2014is unconstitutional under the equal protection clause of the state\u2019s constitution. \u2014 Rachel Layne, Fortune , 6 June 2022",
"Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis said the law violated the equal protection clause of the California constitution. \u2014 Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 May 2022",
"Six months later, attorneys for Kushi and a dozen other Asians and Latinos filed the suit, asserting that the existing system violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the equal protection clause of the Constitution. \u2014 Don Leestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 20 May 2022",
"Despite the law's successful outcome, a judge ruled that the requirement is unconstitutional under the equal protection clause in the state's constitution, striking down the 3-year-old mandate. \u2014 Fortune , 17 May 2022",
"Quotas no more: A Superior Court of California judge struck down a state law that required companies in the state to include women on their boards of directors, saying the 2018 law violated the equal protection clause of the state\u2019s constitution. \u2014 Jena Mcgregor, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"Last month, the Department of Justice joined the complaint against Alabama, alleging that the banning legislation, titled the Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, violates the 14th Amendment\u2019s equal protection clause. \u2014 Anne Branigin, Washington Post , 14 May 2022"
"For obligatory purchases like gas and groceries, add an equal sign . \u2014 cleveland , 30 Apr. 2022",
"The new album's cover features a black equal sign atop an abstract painting created by Sheeran, as well as several butterflies that symbolize new life. \u2014 Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com , 19 Aug. 2021",
"Andre Rochester painted a scales of justice, an equal sign and people of different races. \u2014 Susan Dunne, courant.com , 13 Nov. 2020",
"But there is a growing community of mathematicians who regard the equal sign as math\u2019s original error. \u2014 Wired , 13 Oct. 2019",
"But there is a growing community of mathematicians who regard the equal sign as math\u2019s original error. \u2014 Wired , 13 Oct. 2019",
"But there is a growing community of mathematicians who regard the equal sign as math\u2019s original error. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 10 Oct. 2019",
"But algebra performs its gymnastics over the fixed bars of the equal sign . \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 10 Oct. 2019",
"Start by respecting that their home ( equal sign ) their choices. \u2014 Carolyn Hax, Detroit Free Press , 31 Oct. 2019"
"Many of us \u2014 me included \u2014 had assumed that the US was generally moving toward more equality in STEM. \u2014 Kara Miller, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
"Therefore, Justice Alito wrote, the right to end an unwanted pregnancy couldn\u2019t be derived from the amendment\u2019s provisions protecting individual liberty and equality from infringement by state governments. \u2014 Jess Bravin, WSJ , 24 June 2022",
"While King advanced racial equality through nonviolent protest, Malcolm X argued forcefully for Black empowerment, identity and self-determination. \u2014 Rodney Ho, ajc , 23 June 2022",
"The achievements born through equality of opportunity were not immediate, though, and have still not been felt evenly. \u2014 Arika Herron, The Indianapolis Star , 23 June 2022",
"Ellis says having equal protection under the law is a precedent-setting move for achieving social equality . \u2014 Edward Segarra, USA TODAY , 22 June 2022",
"Officials with Nordic combined and the leaders of FIS, skiing\u2019s world governing body, have been told the issue for the I.O.C. is not only equality but also relevance. \u2014 New York Times , 21 June 2022",
"Boggs was a representative from Louisiana who served 18 years in the House as a strong advocate for women\u2019s equality . \u2014 Erin Spencer Sairam, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"Like the Pullman Porter Museum a lot of Black labor history and struggles for work equality are documented in those archives. \u2014 Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune , 21 June 2022"
": to adjust or correct the frequency characteristics of (an electronic signal) by restoring to their original level high frequencies that have been attenuated":[],
"Reapportionment redraws the Assembly\u2019s district boundaries, happening usually every 10 years after the U.S. census is complete, in order to help equalize representation of Anchorage residents on the Assembly as the population changes. \u2014 Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Districts are redrawn after each U.S. census every 10 years to equalize populations within them. \u2014 Doug Thompson, Arkansas Online , 31 Jan. 2022",
"Adeyemi was the player to equalize the record in the Austrian Klassiker on Sunday against Rapid. \u2014 Manuel Veth, Forbes , 20 Sep. 2021",
"Redistricting \u2014 the redrawing of congressional boundaries to roughly equalize district populations \u2014 accounts for a big part of the Republican optimism. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 Aug. 2021",
"Women account for approximately 50% of the world\u2019s population, so organizations, employers and VC firms need to put intentional processes in place to equalize gender representation. \u2014 Alyson Watson, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"Orlando battered Cincinnati for long stretches of the match, dominated possession and seemed to be constantly threatening to equalize over the final 35 minutes. \u2014 Pat Brennan, The Enquirer , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Districts were redrawn to equalize populations in them. \u2014 Doug Thompson, Arkansas Online , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Under the new agreement, USSF becomes the first federation in the world to equalize FIFA World Cup prize money. \u2014 Carrie Wittmer, Glamour , 18 May 2022"
"Sacramento took an early lead on Rodrigo L\u00f3pez\u2019s goal in the fourth minute, but the Galaxy were gifted the equalizer 14 minutes later when Republic defender Conor Donovan accidentally headed in an Efra\u00edn \u00c1lvarez corner kick. \u2014 Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2022",
"The Warriors didn't allow a single goal in the final quarter, giving enough time for McNulty to cut the lead in half and Klein to score the equalizer with 3:55 left in regulation to force overtime. \u2014 Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press , 11 June 2022",
"United beat Wigan 2-0 away thanks to goals by Cristiano Ronaldo and Ryan Giggs, while Chelsea could only draw at Bolton 1-1 after conceding a late equalizer . \u2014 Steve Douglas, ajc , 19 May 2022",
"Fall was the hero of the previous contest between these two teams, scoring a late equalizer in stoppage time to draw that early-season match, 1-1. \u2014 oregonlive , 10 May 2022",
"Oshie\u2019s go-ahead goal came not long afterward, and Florida never got the equalizer . \u2014 Tim Reynolds, Sun Sentinel , 4 May 2022",
"This seems highly plausible social media has become a great equalizer for many aspiring business owners. \u2014 Jasmine Browley, Essence , 4 June 2022",
"The Lions felt aggrieved following several calls in those final 45 minutes, including a second yellow card to Rodrigo Schlegel in the 60th minute and the last corner of the game that led to Austin FC\u2019s equalizer . \u2014 Austin David, Orlando Sentinel , 22 May 2022",
"Smith made a couple strong saves as the Flames pressed for the equalizer and Evander Kane scored an empty-net goal. \u2014 Mike Brehm, USA TODAY , 25 May 2022"
": a small irrigation reservoir that receives water from a pump and is used to maintain uniform water flow during brief pumping interruptions and to permit temporary water withdrawal in excess of the pump capacity":[]
"Research shows that client experience is equally important for a business and its clients. \u2014 Mokhtar Jabli, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"There are hundreds, if not thousands, of other equally important stories from the Disability Rights Movement that have not yet received adequate attention. \u2014 Emily Burack, Town & Country , 23 June 2022",
"Creating an artificial majority out of a very diverse Hindu community that consists of thousands of castes and ethnicities is equally important if the BJP is to remain in power. \u2014 Arundhati Roy, CNN , 22 June 2022",
"Lowering utility costs by providing tax incentives for energy is another piece, but, equally important, lowering the federal deficit by enacting long-overdue tax reform. \u2014 CBS News , 19 June 2022",
"While folks can give by advocating or volunteering, philanthropy remains equally important. \u2014 Courtney Howard, Variety , 17 June 2022",
"Ronald Reagan is widely recognized for articulating and mainstreaming a conservative ideology that was diametrically opposed to the New Deal, but equally important was a guard-changing among GOP congressional leaders. \u2014 Ed Burmila, The New Republic , 15 June 2022",
"The handy attachments that come along with your vacuum are equally important. \u2014 Carolyn Fort\u00e9, Good Housekeeping , 14 June 2022",
"The number of kids and the number of opportunities is equally important to a continuing education. \u2014 Gregory Harutunian, Chicago Tribune , 8 June 2022"
"Those who are doomed to become artists are seldom blessed with equanimity . They are tossed to drunken heights, only to be brought down into a sludge of headachy despair; their arrogance gives way to humiliation at the next curve of the switchback. \u2014 Patrick White , Flaws in the Glass , (1981) 1983",
"She's heading straight for us\u2014he thought. \u2026 And his uneasiness grew by the recollection of the forty tons of dynamite in the body of the Ferndale ; not the sort of cargo one thinks of with equanimity in connexion with a threatened collision. \u2014 Joseph Conrad , Chance , (1913) 1924",
"an Olympic diver who always displays remarkable equanimity on the platform",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"His relationship with painting was akin to that of a besotted lover with a domineering partner: The pleasure is deranging, but the cost to one\u2019s equanimity steep. \u2014 Sebastian Smee, Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
"Similarly, the contributors all seem to have achieved equanimity , even those who have suffered hardships. \u2014 Tom Teicholz, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"Alzheimer\u2019s has given her a refreshing dollop of equanimity . \u2014 Longreads , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Continetti greeted Trump\u2019s candidacy with equanimity at first. \u2014 Timothy Shenk, The New Republic , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Not everyone is accepting the ban on male departures with equanimity . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 Mar. 2022",
"Spacek and Simmons are a sublime on-screen couple, with his get-off-my-lawn gruffness balancing beautifully against her determined equanimity . \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 16 May 2022",
"Caity was astonished by my equanimity in the face of hundreds of opportunities to complain. \u2014 New York Times , 4 May 2022",
"True to the character's credo, Dusek embodies equanimity as Scott. \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 23 Apr. 2022"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for equanimity equanimity , composure , sangfroid mean evenness of mind under stress. equanimity suggests a habit of mind that is only rarely disturbed under great strain. accepted her troubles with equanimity composure implies the controlling of emotional or mental agitation by an effort of will or as a matter of habit. maintaining his composure even under hostile questioning sangfroid implies great coolness and steadiness under strain. handled the situation with professional sangfroid",
"But a mild recession doesn\u2019t equate to mild inflation. \u2014 Will Daniel, Fortune , 18 June 2022",
"And potential candidate doesn\u2019t automatically equate to should definitely get bariatric surgery. \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"And while Trump may still be a kingmaker for some, his endorsement doesn't equate to a sure path to victory either. \u2014 Bybrittany Shepherd, ABC News , 17 May 2022",
"More television time doesn\u2019t equate to any extra fun or anything worthwhile. \u2014 Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone , 6 May 2022",
"Tent encampments still blight cities, however, and many voters equate them with crime. \u2014 George Skelton, Los Angeles Times , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Earnings are based on the amount of movement measured by GPS tracking that is made during five-minute increments that equate to one unit of Energy, which naturally replenishes over time once fully depleted. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 27 May 2022",
"Gilbert said about 20% of ASAE attendees historically book events in the host city within five years, which could equate to about $500 million in business. \u2014 Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland , 10 May 2022",
"Around this time, notices of a green stone were listed in a London newspaper with a price attached that would equate to about $7 million dollars, or four tons of gold. \u2014 Stellene Volandes, Town & Country , 14 Apr. 2022"
": a circle or circular band dividing the surface of a body into two usually equal and symmetrical parts":[],
": a great circle of the earth or a celestial body that is everywhere equally distant from the two poles and divides the surface into the northern and southern hemispheres":[],
": equatorial plane":[
"the equator of a dividing cell"
],
": great circle":[],
": the great circle of the celestial sphere whose plane is perpendicular to the axis of the earth":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For now, it's expected to hit the far side of the Moon near the equator on March 4. \u2014 Matthew Humphries, PCMAG , 27 June 2022",
"Additionally, the agency will situate each at an angle close to 30 degrees above the equator . \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 11 June 2022",
"From the shores of Ramatuelle to the beaches lying just above the equator in Thailand and Malaysia, water enthusiasts won\u2019t be shortchanged. \u2014 Roger Sands, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"Brazil has been attempting to bring commercial companies to Alc\u00e2ntara for several years, upgrading infrastructure around the facility and boasting of the location just 2 degrees south of the equator . \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 6 May 2022",
"And conversely, nearly all the countries with the worst readiness score are within 20 degrees of the equator . \u2014 Emily Barone, Time , 4 May 2022",
"Two more Centaur firings over nearly six-and-a-half hours were planned to put the two Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellites in an orbit close to 22,300 miles above the equator . \u2014 William Harwood, CBS News , 21 Jan. 2022",
"Taraviricota viruses were most abundantly found in tropical waters at or near the equator , while Arctiviricota were commonly near the Arctic Ocean, the team wrote in The Conversation. \u2014 Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Far from the familiar conditions of the lunar equator , which was visited by the Apollo astronauts, Artemis explorers will encounter dramatic lighting at the bottom of the moon, as well as frozen conditions and intriguing lunar soil. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 25 Mar. 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Middle English, from Medieval Latin aequator , literally, equalizer, from Latin aequare":""
"The waves are strongest\u2014or rather, their impact to the magnetic field is the greatest\u2014near the equatorial region of the outer core. \u2014 Popular Mechanics , 26 May 2022",
"La Nina conditions occur when parts of the equatorial Pacific ocean cool, changing global weather patterns. \u2014 Michael Phillis, BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2022",
"There are three jet streams that are thought to affect the Indian summer monsoon \u2013 the subtropical westerly, the tropical easterly, and the Somali or cross- equatorial jet stream. \u2014 Anusha Krishnan, Quartz , 30 May 2022",
"La Nina is a natural and cyclical cooling of parts of the equatorial Pacific that changes weather patterns worldwide, as opposed to El Nino's warming. \u2014 CBS News , 28 May 2022",
"La Nina is a natural and cyclical cooling of parts of the equatorial Pacific that changes weather patterns worldwide, as opposed to El Nino\u2019s warming. \u2014 Seth Borenstein, ajc , 28 May 2022",
"Most cocoa is grown in rainy equatorial countries in Africa and South and Central America, and climate change is already messing with crop yields. \u2014 Larissa Zimberoff, The Atlantic , 23 Feb. 2022",
"The virus was everywhere scientists looked, yet Burkitt\u2019s lymphoma was largely confined to equatorial Africa. \u2014 Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Pass a library, observing room, and countless instruments before climbing the twisting stairs to the equatorial room. \u2014 Carlos R. Mu\u00f1oz, BostonGlobe.com , 18 Feb. 2022"
"But unlike a diamond, this prethermal time crystal is not forever; if the experiment ran for long enough, the system would gradually equilibrate and the cyclical behavior would break down. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 2 Aug. 2021",
"There is no magic formula that says value and growth stocks must equilibrate . \u2014 Mike Bird, WSJ , 10 May 2021",
"Once the pressure equilibrated to zero across the outer hatch door, the men pushed it open and swam the remaining 20 vertical feet between them, sunlight, and safety. \u2014 Rachel Lance, Wired , 7 Apr. 2020",
"The longer the crisis continues, and if supply and demand do not equilibrate , the more energy jobs could be in jeopardy. \u2014 NBC News , 9 Mar. 2020",
"This allowed the debris to evenly mix and equilibrate , producing the body's current spherical shape. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 29 Oct. 2019",
"Oceans acidify in the blink of a geologic eye In the late 1700s, the oceans had equilibrated to be slightly alkaline, with a pH of about 8.1\u2014roughly the same level of acidity as an egg white. \u2014 Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic , 7 Aug. 2019",
"This tendency to equilibrate , like a cup of coffee cooling to room temperature, is the most familiar outcome of the second law of thermodynamics, which says that energy constantly spreads and the entropy of the universe always increases. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 16 June 2019",
"The room eventually equilibrates with the outside environment, and the environment drifts even more slowly toward equilibrium with the rest of the universe. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 16 Apr. 2014"
": to bring about, come to, or be in equilibrium":[],
": to bring into or keep in equilibrium : balance":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But unlike a diamond, this prethermal time crystal is not forever; if the experiment ran for long enough, the system would gradually equilibrate and the cyclical behavior would break down. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 2 Aug. 2021",
"There is no magic formula that says value and growth stocks must equilibrate . \u2014 Mike Bird, WSJ , 10 May 2021",
"Once the pressure equilibrated to zero across the outer hatch door, the men pushed it open and swam the remaining 20 vertical feet between them, sunlight, and safety. \u2014 Rachel Lance, Wired , 7 Apr. 2020",
"The longer the crisis continues, and if supply and demand do not equilibrate , the more energy jobs could be in jeopardy. \u2014 NBC News , 9 Mar. 2020",
"This allowed the debris to evenly mix and equilibrate , producing the body's current spherical shape. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 29 Oct. 2019",
"Oceans acidify in the blink of a geologic eye In the late 1700s, the oceans had equilibrated to be slightly alkaline, with a pH of about 8.1\u2014roughly the same level of acidity as an egg white. \u2014 Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic , 7 Aug. 2019",
"This tendency to equilibrate , like a cup of coffee cooling to room temperature, is the most familiar outcome of the second law of thermodynamics, which says that energy constantly spreads and the entropy of the universe always increases. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 16 June 2019",
"The room eventually equilibrates with the outside environment, and the environment drifts even more slowly toward equilibrium with the rest of the universe. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 16 Apr. 2014"
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": a state of adjustment between opposing or divergent influences or elements":[],
": a state of balance between opposing forces or actions that is either static (as in a body acted on by forces whose resultant is zero) or dynamic (as in a reversible chemical reaction when the rates of reaction in both directions are equal)":[],
": a state of intellectual or emotional balance : poise":[
"we must find an equilibrium between commercial development and conservation of our natural treasures",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The measure creates an equilibrium between water utilisation and water infrastructure maintenance charges. \u2014 Niyati Seth, Quartz , 8 June 2022",
"Allowing market forces to return to equilibrium and produce a sufficient supply of housing for the existing level of demand is the only solution to the housing crisis. \u2014 Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 Apr. 2022",
"The Progressive Era also involved an equilibrium between a communitarian ethos and the liberal credo of individual freedom. \u2014 Win Mccormack, The New Republic , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Let the price of water rise until there is an equilibrium between supply and demand. \u2014 Edward Ring, National Review , 17 Mar. 2022",
"So to hear The Hooded Gridiron Kenobi apologize was jarring, a shock wave to the equilibrium of the universe. \u2014 Jason Gay, WSJ , 23 Dec. 2021",
"This can upset the delicate equilibrium of microorganisms in your intestines, causing stomach issues such as diarrhea. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 June 2022",
"Whenever the price of UST dropped below $1, traders were encouraged to burn UST for Luna, which would decrease the supply of UST and theoretically push its price up to equilibrium . \u2014 Marco Quiroz-gutierrez, Fortune , 19 May 2022",
"At halftime, when the Golden State Warriors\u2019 game plan is in tatters and their emotional equilibrium has been shaken, head coach Steve Kerr and his pit crew have 10 minutes to fix everything. \u2014 Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle , 31 May 2022"
"More money was needed to train and equip the troops.",
"Equipped with a hoe and a shovel, I headed for the garden.",
"Her training has equipped her to deal with emergencies.",
"She is well- equipped to deal with emergencies.",
"Those students are not equipped for the challenges of college.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Healy-Silcott said the price tag to equip and send the team to Towson totaled $40,000. \u2014 Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun , 30 June 2022",
"Civilian assistance for the military effort has been a feature of Ukrainian resistance from Day 1 of the Feb. 24 invasion, as ordinary folk dropped everything to help and raided their bank accounts to equip hastily assembled new units. \u2014 John Leicester, The Christian Science Monitor , 27 June 2022",
"Secure access service edge (SASE) can equip organizations to not only take advantage of all the benefits 5G has to offer but address and protect against new security threats 5G networks introduce. \u2014 Kelly Ahuja, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"How does having more comprehensive data enable or equip Indigenous communities to better protect women, girls, non-binary, and two-spirit people in their communities",
"Yet new research suggests that MBAs equip corporate leaders with one overriding skill: cutting workers' pay. \u2014 Irina Ivanova, CBS News , 4 Apr. 2022",
"The Mount Airy Police Department will soon equip its officers with body cameras, after receiving state funding to purchase the equipment, Chief Douglas Reitz said. \u2014 Cameron Goodnight, Baltimore Sun , 20 Mar. 2022",
"But Boss argues that many losses do not follow such models, and our reliance on them does not equip us to cope. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Dec. 2021",
"But\u2014as the Russians have been showing us\u2014there\u2019s nothing like actual fighting to equip a military with lessons to succeed in actual fighting. \u2014 Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ , 7 June 2022"
"modification of Anglo-French eskiper, eschiper to load on board a ship, embark, outfit, man, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English scipian equip a ship, scip ship":"Verb"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for equip Verb furnish , equip , outfit , appoint , accoutre mean to supply one with what is needed. furnish implies the provision of any or all essentials for performing a function. a sparsely furnished apartment equip suggests the provision of something making for efficiency in action or use. a fully equipped kitchen outfit implies provision of a complete list or set of articles as for a journey, an expedition, or a special occupation. outfitted the family for a ski trip appoint implies provision of complete and usually elegant or elaborate equipment or furnishings. a lavishly appointed apartment accoutre suggests the supplying of personal dress or equipment for a special activity. fully accoutred members of a polar expedition",
": a set of small articles (as for table service)":[],
": etui":[],
": material or articles used in equipment : outfit":[],
": retinue":[],
": trappings":[]
},
"examples":[
"for their old-fashioned wedding, the couple arrived at the church in a Victorian-era equipage , complete with costumed driver",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The carriage house proper boasted a livery room and space for six large equipages . \u2014 John Freeman Gill, New York Times , 25 Oct. 2019",
"Today, Queen Elizabeth sat alone in an equipage ; her husband Prince Philip did not attend after recently undergoing hip surgery. \u2014 Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping , 10 June 2018",
"Mercer\u2019s influences are crystal clear in this work, which is dripping with drama and difficult equipage (the dancers literally toss heavy wooden chairs across the stage). \u2014 Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com , 25 Mar. 2018"
"Some regular maintenance can happen without spare parts, and every airplane has a minimum equipment list. \u2014 Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics , 24 June 2022",
"Lawyers contend that more advanced genetic testing equipment might detect fragments of DNA that were not detectable when evidence was first examined in the early '90s. \u2014 Lara Farrar, Arkansas Online , 24 June 2022",
"In the months ahead, Ludington will hold a trial to try to determine how many blood spots really are needed for newborn disease screening, including to calibrate critical testing equipment , among other issues. \u2014 Ed White, Detroit Free Press , 23 June 2022",
"Home ventilators are typically provided through an equipment vendor rather than being owned by the patient, complicating the process of changing machines. \u2014 Emily Alpert Reyesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"On Tuesday afternoon, the power went off after a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. equipment failure linked to a fire roughly 10 miles north of campus. \u2014 Kate Galbraith, San Francisco Chronicle , 23 June 2022",
"On June 8, police pulled over a GMC Terran with an equipment violation on Marmore Avenue. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 22 June 2022",
"The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources determined the city\u2019s water was not contaminated following a recent equipment failure at the South Milwaukee Water Utility. \u2014 Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel , 22 June 2022",
"The Yamhill Valley Heritage Center is back with summer-time farm fun with this day of draft animals on view, old-fashioned yard games like sack and three-legged races, as well as antique farm equipment on display. \u2014 oregonlive , 22 June 2022"
"when participating in any dangerous sport, one should maintain an equipoise between fearless boldness and commonsense caution",
"her frugality is a much-needed equipoise to her husband's spendthrift ways",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But the particular soil composition, plus the balance achieved through bright sunlight hours and the cool climate, indeed produce fully mature tannins and equipoise of acidity and alcohol. \u2014 Jill Barth, Forbes , 27 Sep. 2021",
"Western Europe at the end of the 15th century was characterized by a unique equipoise between political fracture and civilizational unity. \u2014 Razib Khan, National Review , 31 July 2021",
"C\u00e9zanne\u2019s scattershot approach triumphed in his conflations of surface with depth, which abolished perspective by locating the near and the relatively distant with shading and color, perceived all at once in increasingly perfect equipoise . \u2014 Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker , 21 June 2021",
"But the slickness and equipoise of Tangled Up in Blue betray themselves. \u2014 Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic , 25 May 2021",
"Faye rarely looks inward; those books exude a kind of chilly spiritual equipoise . \u2014 Helen Shaw, Vulture , 29 Apr. 2021",
"His stance is one of equipoise , and his lifelong theme, which answers to his forgiving instincts, is human error: the gravest, the looniest, and the most enduring of all tautologies. \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 22 Feb. 2021",
"Hughes\u2019s mastery of American sentimentalizing rhetoric and his irony regarding the country\u2019s actual workings sit in stark equipoise . \u2014 Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker , 2 Nov. 2020",
"Russia, meanwhile, had recovered its equipoise and some of its strength and turned decidedly \u2014 in some ways, violently \u2014 against a friendly approach toward the West. \u2014 Elbridge Colby, National Review , 5 Dec. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The authors do a great job demonstrating that allowing respect for autonomy has, at a minimum, equipoise with the authoritarian approach, if not superiority, when considering a range of measures of health and happiness. \u2014 WSJ , 3 Jan. 2022"
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin aequipollent-, aequipollens , from aequi- equi- + pollent-, pollens , present participle of poll\u0113re to be able":""
"Medieval Latin aequiponderant-, aequiponderans , present participle of aequiponderare , from Latin aequi- + ponderare to weigh \u2014 more at ponder":""
"Clover has risen to the top of the list, replacing equisetum , which always disappears and people forget about it. \u2014 Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Veteran gardeners know them well: chickweed and equisetum . \u2014 Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News , 28 May 2020",
"The only downside was that my property has a great deal of equisetum (horsetail), which enjoyed spreading its roots into the spaces left by the wavy layer in the middle. \u2014 oregonlive , 5 Jan. 2020",
"Not only do equisetum spread by underground roots, but also by above ground spores. \u2014 Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News , 31 May 2018",
"These tools are great for cutting down equisetum , grasses and weeds along buildings, swings, fences, under shrubs and around trees. \u2014 Jeff Lowenfels, Alaska Dispatch News , 23 June 2017"
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"first_known_use":{
"1761, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin equisaetum horsetail plant, from equus horse + saeta bristle":""
": of or relating to a radio system used in navigation in which two distinguishable signals of different amplitude emitted by a radio range station merge and become indistinguishable when the receiver is in the on-course region":[]
"Currently my full-time job is president of the Northeast Clean Energy Council, an organization promoting the rapid and equitable transition to a clean energy future and a diverse climate economy. \u2014 John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com , 30 June 2022",
"The health care industry\u2019s promise of innovative, end-to-end digital health platforms must start by closing digital back doors and create equitable digital front doors to truly transform the state of the nation\u2019s health. \u2014 Kim Gallon, STAT , 28 June 2022",
"Balancing flexibility and autonomy with guidelines and equitable support can be a solid start. \u2014 Yec, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"District leaders are obligated to ensure that the athletic experience stays equitable for girls and boys even with independent financing. \u2014 New York Times , 24 June 2022",
"Title IX requires equitable scholarships and sports roster spots based on the gender ratio of the student population. \u2014 Melissa Murphy, ajc , 23 June 2022",
"The candidates haven\u2019t put a number on it, but many have talked about the need for such investments \u2014 and the need to do so through an equitable lens. \u2014 Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun , 23 June 2022",
"This year\u2019s Farm Film & Music Series features documentary films, local musicians and community conversations on equitable food systems, environmental justice and caring for the planet. \u2014 Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 June 2022",
"The hard part is turning all the great science into products that reach people in a timely and equitable way. \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 18 June 2022"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for equitable fair , just , equitable , impartial , unbiased , dispassionate , objective mean free from favor toward either or any side. fair implies a proper balance of conflicting interests. a fair decision just implies an exact following of a standard of what is right and proper. a just settlement of territorial claims equitable implies a less rigorous standard than just and usually suggests equal treatment of all concerned. the equitable distribution of the property impartial stresses an absence of favor or prejudice. an impartial third party unbiased implies even more strongly an absence of all prejudice. your unbiased opinion dispassionate suggests freedom from the influence of strong feeling and often implies cool or even cold judgment. a dispassionate summation of the facts objective stresses a tendency to view events or persons as apart from oneself and one's own interest or feelings. I can't be objective about my own child",
": an attachment of debts, choses in action, or other property that cannot be attached at law or secured under statute, by injunction, or by other equitable process : an attachment effected in a suit in equity or by a court of equity":[]
": a provision made and accepted by a woman (not being an infant) before her marriage in lieu of dower that will generally be enforced in equity as a bar to dower":[]
": a proceeding under statutory provisions by a judgment creditor to compel discovery of property of, due to, or held in trust for the judgment debtor and to secure payment from it":[]
"They reached an equitable settlement of their dispute.",
"fighting for a more equitable distribution of funds",
"an equitable system of taxation",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Currently my full-time job is president of the Northeast Clean Energy Council, an organization promoting the rapid and equitable transition to a clean energy future and a diverse climate economy. \u2014 John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com , 30 June 2022",
"The health care industry\u2019s promise of innovative, end-to-end digital health platforms must start by closing digital back doors and create equitable digital front doors to truly transform the state of the nation\u2019s health. \u2014 Kim Gallon, STAT , 28 June 2022",
"Balancing flexibility and autonomy with guidelines and equitable support can be a solid start. \u2014 Yec, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"District leaders are obligated to ensure that the athletic experience stays equitable for girls and boys even with independent financing. \u2014 New York Times , 24 June 2022",
"Title IX requires equitable scholarships and sports roster spots based on the gender ratio of the student population. \u2014 Melissa Murphy, ajc , 23 June 2022",
"The candidates haven\u2019t put a number on it, but many have talked about the need for such investments \u2014 and the need to do so through an equitable lens. \u2014 Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun , 23 June 2022",
"This year\u2019s Farm Film & Music Series features documentary films, local musicians and community conversations on equitable food systems, environmental justice and caring for the planet. \u2014 Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 June 2022",
"The hard part is turning all the great science into products that reach people in a timely and equitable way. \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 18 June 2022"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for equitable fair , just , equitable , impartial , unbiased , dispassionate , objective mean free from favor toward either or any side. fair implies a proper balance of conflicting interests. a fair decision just implies an exact following of a standard of what is right and proper. a just settlement of territorial claims equitable implies a less rigorous standard than just and usually suggests equal treatment of all concerned. the equitable distribution of the property impartial stresses an absence of favor or prejudice. an impartial third party unbiased implies even more strongly an absence of all prejudice. your unbiased opinion dispassionate suggests freedom from the influence of strong feeling and often implies cool or even cold judgment. a dispassionate summation of the facts objective stresses a tendency to view events or persons as apart from oneself and one's own interest or feelings. I can't be objective about my own child",
": a body of legal doctrines and rules developed to enlarge, supplement, or override a narrow rigid system of law":[],
": a right, claim, or interest existing or valid in equity":[],
": a risk interest or ownership right in property":[],
": a system of law originating in the English chancery and comprising a settled and formal body of legal and procedural rules and doctrines that supplement, aid, or override common and statute law and are designed to protect rights and enforce duties fixed by substantive law":[],
": something that is equitable":[],
": the common stock of a corporation":[],
": the money value of a property or of an interest in a property in excess of claims or liens against it":[],
": trial or remedial justice under or by the rules and doctrines of equity":[]
"The most socially conscious of the major sports leagues needs to put more of its money where its mouth is on gender equity . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 2 July 2022",
"The reality of our media landscape, with private- equity firms gutting newspapers, is that there are fewer and fewer resources for those kinds of investigations. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 1 July 2022",
"These schemes have one goal: to strip away your equity in your home. \u2014 Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel , 23 June 2022",
"The all-female panel will discuss Title IX, its impact on athletes, coaches and administrators; and the work remaining toward gender equity in sports. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 21 June 2022",
"Around the globe, the marketplace is exerting its influence on gender equity . \u2014 Bob Contri, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"While bills prioritized by the caucus regarding reproductive rights have made it through the Legislature, Garcia pointed to other gender- equity bills focused on issues such as wage disparities that have failed this year. \u2014 Mackenzie Maysstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
"Title IX passes as part of the Education Amendments of 1972, requiring schools that receive federal funds to guarantee gender equity across campus. \u2014 USA Today , 13 June 2022"
": equality in metrical value of a regular foot and one in which there are substitutions":[],
": the relation holding between two statements if they are either both true or both false so that to affirm one and to deny the other would result in a contradiction":[],
"moviegoers who mistakenly believe that there is an equivalence between the personality of an actor and that of his character",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This distinction, between topological and smooth equivalence , doesn\u2019t apply in three dimensions and is one of the deep mysteries of four-dimensional space \u2014 though less so now for Seifert surfaces. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 16 June 2022",
"This is an unnecessary attempt at balance: Is there really still a significant cohort of viewers who need such blunt equivalence in order to understand the basic humanity of the German civilian victims of the Allied air raids",
"And there is no moral equivalence between Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. \u2014 John Blake, CNN , 2 Apr. 2022",
"The equity comes through a mandated 10-mill equivalence in local property tax which a local school system commits to the Foundation Program. \u2014 al , 5 May 2022",
"Those examples are not intended to suggest any moral equivalence between those conflicts but rather how slippery the slope can get when individual athletes are punished for the actions of a government that have nothing to do with sports. \u2014 Dan Wolken, USA TODAY , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Some conservatives have tried to establish a false equivalence between conventional reporting and the mudslinging directed at Ketanji Brown Jackson. \u2014 Jane Mayer, The New Yorker , 16 Apr. 2022",
"These ideas of mass-energy equivalence are not new. \u2014 Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics , 30 Mar. 2022",
": a relation (such as equality) between elements of a set (such as the real numbers) that is symmetric, reflexive, and transitive and for any two elements either holds or does not hold":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Friedman-Stanley paper, as well as the new work by Paolini and Shelah, focused on an equivalence relation \u2014 called isomorphism \u2014 between structures. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 10 Aug. 2021",
"The Friedman-Stanley paper, as well as the new work by Paolini and Shelah, focused on an equivalence relation \u2014 called isomorphism \u2014 between structures. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 10 Aug. 2021",
"The Friedman-Stanley paper, as well as the new work by Paolini and Shelah, focused on an equivalence relation \u2014 called isomorphism \u2014 between structures. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 10 Aug. 2021",
"The Friedman-Stanley paper, as well as the new work by Paolini and Shelah, focused on an equivalence relation \u2014 called isomorphism \u2014 between structures. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 10 Aug. 2021",
"The Friedman-Stanley paper, as well as the new work by Paolini and Shelah, focused on an equivalence relation \u2014 called isomorphism \u2014 between structures. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 10 Aug. 2021",
"The Friedman-Stanley paper, as well as the new work by Paolini and Shelah, focused on an equivalence relation \u2014 called isomorphism \u2014 between structures. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 10 Aug. 2021",
"The Friedman-Stanley paper, as well as the new work by Paolini and Shelah, focused on an equivalence relation \u2014 called isomorphism \u2014 between structures. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 10 Aug. 2021",
"The Friedman-Stanley paper, as well as the new work by Paolini and Shelah, focused on an equivalence relation \u2014 called isomorphism \u2014 between structures. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 10 Aug. 2021"
": the part of the range of possible proportions of interacting antibody and antigen in which neither or but small traces of both remain uncombined in the medium":[]
"The majority of equivalency sports are women\u2019s sports. \u2014 James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 23 June 2022",
"No 'false sense of equivalency ' between Republicans, Democrats. \u2014 Fox News , 16 June 2022",
"Titleist even hired a teacher to help Gemaly get his high school equivalency degree. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 12 June 2022",
"Soon after his death, Mrs. Redding earned a high school equivalency degree, enrolled in business classes and went to work at a booking agency owned by Phil Walden, Mr. Redding\u2019s former manager. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Howard said hopes to gain his high school graduate equivalency degree and obtain training in a specific trade. \u2014 oregonlive , 16 Mar. 2022",
"In fact, adherence to the press\u2019s true mission and highest calling demands journalism that discards the safety-seeking instinct for false equivalency . \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Apr. 2022",
"In 2019, comedian Katherine Ryan made a joke about the couple\u2019s age gap that ultimately intended to punch in R. Kelly\u2019s direction, not Ang\u00e9lil\u2019s, even as the premise of the joke struck a sense of equivalency between these men. \u2014 K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Their rivalry sets up a false equivalency between the challenges of working class immigrants and those of the formerly enslaved that the story neither sufficiently complicates nor resolves. \u2014 Naveen Kumar, Variety , 3 Apr. 2022"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for equivalent same , selfsame , very , identical , equivalent , equal mean not different or not differing from one another. same may imply and selfsame always implies that the things under consideration are one thing and not two or more things. took the same route derived from the selfsame source very , like selfsame , may imply identity, or, like same may imply likeness in kind. the very point I was trying to make identical may imply selfsameness or suggest absolute agreement in all details. identical results equivalent implies amounting to the same thing in worth or significance. two houses equivalent in market value equal implies being identical in value, magnitude, or some specified quality. equal shares in the business",
"Does that transformation mean that a school district that pays for public schools must pay equivalent funds to parents who wish to send their children to religious schools",
"Just 33 full-time equivalent jobs have been promised by the 24 projects for which Gulf Coast Restoration Fund grants have been finalized, according to grant agreements. \u2014 Anita Lee, ProPublica , 24 June 2022",
"Otherwise, athletic departments would consist of football, men\u2019s basketball and an equivalent number of scholarship opportunities on the women\u2019s side of the ledger. \u2014 Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune , 23 June 2022",
"Total box office revenue for the year currently sits at $2.45 billion, down 39 percent from the equivalent period in 2021. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 20 June 2022",
"The school also offers two-year equivalent honor societies including Phi Theta Kappa and Alpha Mu Gamma. \u2014 Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant , 20 June 2022",
"Every coin, in theory, is backed up with an equivalent hard asset. \u2014 Peter Weber, The Week , 17 June 2022",
"The researchers found that baseball cards held by darker hands sold for about 20% less than equivalent cards held by lighter hands. \u2014 Michael Luca, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"By combining all those signals into a single synthetic signal, the team achieved the equivalent resolution of a telescope with a diameter of 16 kilometers (10 miles)\u2014about 20 miles per pixel. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 16 June 2022"
"Middle English, from Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French, from Late Latin aequivalent-, aequivalens , present participle of aequival\u0113re to have equal power, from Latin aequi- + val\u0113re to be strong \u2014 more at wield":""
": the mass of a substance especially in grams that combines with or is chemically equivalent to eight grams of oxygen or one gram of hydrogen : the atomic or molecular weight divided by the valence":[]
"Using my estimates, MJ and Spidey would be traveling at almost 90 miles per hour (40 meters/second), and MJ would have to support an equivalent weight of around 800 pounds (3,555 newtons). \u2014 Rhett Allain, Wired , 15 Oct. 2021",
"Constructed from e-glass and Kevlar, these hulls are mated to a carbon-fiber superstructure, so the boat weighs only 49 tons, or the equivalent weight of a 60-foot conventional yacht. \u2014 Miriam Cain, Robb Report , 6 Aug. 2021",
"That's the equivalent weight of more than 685 elephants. \u2014 Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star , 2 Dec. 2020",
"Consequently, Tyrian purple dye was at times worth more than its equivalent weight in silver or gold while purple-dyed fabrics could command extraordinarily high prices. \u2014 Mark Woolmer, National Geographic , 24 Sep. 2020",
"That's the equivalent weight of two Airbus A380s, the world's largest passenger airliner, going into the air every second. \u2014 Seth Borenstein, Fortune , 4 Dec. 2019",
"That\u2019s the equivalent weight of two Airbus A380s, the world\u2019s largest passenger airliner, going into the air every second. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Dec. 2019",
"The laptop's weight has increased ever so slightly to 2.45 pounds from 2.43 pounds, which HP made a point to mention is about the equivalent weight of a No.2 pencil. \u2014 Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica , 10 Nov. 2017",
"The amount is the equivalent weight of roughly 950,000 American adults, or the population of Marion County, and made Indiana sixth in the country in terms of toxic release. \u2014 Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star , 3 Nov. 2017"
"When I go to galleries to see new art. \u2026 I don't care about what I see unless it holds my eye, and that is an almost involuntary experience; but once something has that hold on me\u2014even in a tentative, equivocal way\u2014other factors come into play, and I find myself reaching for analogies, ideas, theories. \u2014 Jed Perl , New Republic , 20 Mar. 2000",
"He [Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec] frequented the sleazy underworld of Paris, but moved in top circles too, and by virtue of his equivocal status as a landed gentleman-turned-bohemian artist, was sufficiently an outsider to be a detached observer of the diverse social classes among whom he ranged so freely. \u2014 Elizabeth Cowling , Times Literary Supplement , 8 Nov. 1991",
"\u2026 in the past, photographs of real situations in color have invited a sense of ambiguity, an element of distrust on the part of viewers, perhaps because the saturated dyes of color film seem to have an equivocal relationship to the harsher realities of social conditions. \u2014 Naomi Rosenblum , A World History of Photography , 1989",
"He responded to reporters' questions with equivocal answers.",
"Amid the lukewarm notes and contempt of lying for hire, this wryly equivocal review says something genuinely important: Feeling, in a poet, is the source of others\u2019 feeling. \u2014 Susan J. Wolfson, The Atlantic , 18 June 2022",
"Lee, 64, has kept his public appearances brief and tightly choreographed, and his statements have been vague and equivocal , said Chan, showing his lack of knowledge in many policy areas. \u2014 Robert Olsen, Forbes , 6 May 2022",
"Trump\u2019s appeal to his fans, yet Trump himself seems equivocal about his project. \u2014 Steve Coll, The New Yorker , 5 June 2022",
"At the end of May, Lam gave an equivocal response when asked whether people who gathered at Victoria Park on June 4 would face legal repercussions. \u2014 Jessie Yeung, CNN , 3 June 2022",
"As for other benefits, the literature is somewhat equivocal . \u2014 Oliver Lee Bateman, Men's Health , 19 May 2022",
"From his Fifth Symphony onward, Shostakovich practiced an art of equivocal triumph, and the finale of the Tenth might be his deftest feat in this line. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Officials at the State Department had previously seen more opportunity to split Beijing and Moscow over the war, arguing that Beijing\u2019s equivocal statements on the crisis pointed to discomfort at Moscow\u2019s actions. \u2014 Jennifer Jacobs, Fortune , 18 Mar. 2022",
"While Ukraine\u2019s Foreign and Defense Ministers spoke warmly of their meeting in Poland Saturday with Biden, there was less equivocal support for the president\u2019s remarks among people in Ukraine. \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 26 Mar. 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
"1599, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin aequivocus , from aequi- equi- + voc-, vox voice \u2014 more at voice":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"i-\u02c8kwi-v\u0259-k\u0259l"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for equivocal obscure , dark , vague , enigmatic , cryptic , ambiguous , equivocal mean not clearly understandable. obscure implies a hiding or veiling of meaning through some inadequacy of expression or withholding of full knowledge. obscure poems dark implies an imperfect or clouded revelation often with ominous or sinister suggestion. muttered dark hints of revenge vague implies a lack of clear formulation due to inadequate conception or consideration. a vague sense of obligation enigmatic stresses a puzzling, mystifying quality. enigmatic occult writings cryptic implies a purposely concealed meaning. cryptic hints of hidden treasure ambiguous applies to language capable of more than one interpretation. an ambiguous directive equivocal applies to language left open to differing interpretations with the intention of deceiving or evading. moral precepts with equivocal phrasing",
"When I go to galleries to see new art. \u2026 I don't care about what I see unless it holds my eye, and that is an almost involuntary experience; but once something has that hold on me\u2014even in a tentative, equivocal way\u2014other factors come into play, and I find myself reaching for analogies, ideas, theories. \u2014 Jed Perl , New Republic , 20 Mar. 2000",
"He [Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec] frequented the sleazy underworld of Paris, but moved in top circles too, and by virtue of his equivocal status as a landed gentleman-turned-bohemian artist, was sufficiently an outsider to be a detached observer of the diverse social classes among whom he ranged so freely. \u2014 Elizabeth Cowling , Times Literary Supplement , 8 Nov. 1991",
"\u2026 in the past, photographs of real situations in color have invited a sense of ambiguity, an element of distrust on the part of viewers, perhaps because the saturated dyes of color film seem to have an equivocal relationship to the harsher realities of social conditions. \u2014 Naomi Rosenblum , A World History of Photography , 1989",
"He responded to reporters' questions with equivocal answers.",
"The experiment produced equivocal results.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Amid the lukewarm notes and contempt of lying for hire, this wryly equivocal review says something genuinely important: Feeling, in a poet, is the source of others\u2019 feeling. \u2014 Susan J. Wolfson, The Atlantic , 18 June 2022",
"Lee, 64, has kept his public appearances brief and tightly choreographed, and his statements have been vague and equivocal , said Chan, showing his lack of knowledge in many policy areas. \u2014 Robert Olsen, Forbes , 6 May 2022",
"Trump\u2019s appeal to his fans, yet Trump himself seems equivocal about his project. \u2014 Steve Coll, The New Yorker , 5 June 2022",
"At the end of May, Lam gave an equivocal response when asked whether people who gathered at Victoria Park on June 4 would face legal repercussions. \u2014 Jessie Yeung, CNN , 3 June 2022",
"As for other benefits, the literature is somewhat equivocal . \u2014 Oliver Lee Bateman, Men's Health , 19 May 2022",
"From his Fifth Symphony onward, Shostakovich practiced an art of equivocal triumph, and the finale of the Tenth might be his deftest feat in this line. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Officials at the State Department had previously seen more opportunity to split Beijing and Moscow over the war, arguing that Beijing\u2019s equivocal statements on the crisis pointed to discomfort at Moscow\u2019s actions. \u2014 Jennifer Jacobs, Fortune , 18 Mar. 2022",
"While Ukraine\u2019s Foreign and Defense Ministers spoke warmly of their meeting in Poland Saturday with Biden, there was less equivocal support for the president\u2019s remarks among people in Ukraine. \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 26 Mar. 2022"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for equivocal obscure , dark , vague , enigmatic , cryptic , ambiguous , equivocal mean not clearly understandable. obscure implies a hiding or veiling of meaning through some inadequacy of expression or withholding of full knowledge. obscure poems dark implies an imperfect or clouded revelation often with ominous or sinister suggestion. muttered dark hints of revenge vague implies a lack of clear formulation due to inadequate conception or consideration. a vague sense of obligation enigmatic stresses a puzzling, mystifying quality. enigmatic occult writings cryptic implies a purposely concealed meaning. cryptic hints of hidden treasure ambiguous applies to language capable of more than one interpretation. an ambiguous directive equivocal applies to language left open to differing interpretations with the intention of deceiving or evading. moral precepts with equivocal phrasing",
"This is not presented to serve as an excuse, nor to try and equivocate industries that are vastly different from one another. \u2014 Sean Stein Smith, Forbes , 5 June 2022",
"Admire or equivocate , behold in reverie or with suspicion. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 May 2022",
"In a 5,000-word article published in July 2021, Putin does not equivocate in articulating his worldview of historical grievance which includes Ukraine as an integral part of the Russian Nation. \u2014 Chris Massaro, Fox News , 9 Dec. 2021",
"In a battle between freedom and authoritarianism, Europe can\u2019t equivocate . \u2014 Anders Fogh Rasmussen, WSJ , 10 Oct. 2021",
"At its most political, Kuriki-Olivo\u2019s work is also at its most literal, and tends not to equivocate . \u2014 New York Times , 18 Aug. 2021",
"Don\u2019t apologize or equivocate about your job search. \u2014 Gerry Valentine, Forbes , 26 May 2021",
"As the fall approaches, first-year students who have already paid their admission deposits have been left in the dark as schools equivocate . \u2014 NBC News , 20 May 2021",
"And some of them, such as members of KISS, Deep Purple and Bon Jovi, wind up having to eat or at least equivocate on their words. \u2014 Gary Graff, Billboard , 12 May 2021"
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"\u2014 Eric Bugyis",
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"\u2014 Mel White",
"His answers were filled with evasions and equivocations .",
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"\u2014 Benjamin Soskis"
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"\u2014 Mel White",
"His answers were filled with evasions and equivocations .",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The state health laboratories work to investigate and mitigate life-threatening diseases, including COVID-19, eastern equine encephalitis , Ebola, H1N1 and Zika. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 25 Nov. 2021",
"Back in 2013, the main target at Emory\u2019s DRIVE was Venezuelan equine encephalitis , a mosquito-borne illness with a high mortality rate that can affect people and horses. \u2014 Helena Oliviero, ajc , 25 Nov. 2021",
"No human or animal cases of West Nile or Eastern equine encephalitis , also known as EEE, have been detected so far this year in Massachusetts, DPH said. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 15 July 2021",
"Connecticut health officials are cautioning southeastern area state residents after the potentially deadly mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus was detected for the first time this year. \u2014 Keira Wingate, USA TODAY , 5 Oct. 2021",
"Connecticut health officials are cautioning southeastern area state residents over the potentially deadly mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus after detecting virus-positive mosquitoes. \u2014 Kayla Rivas, Fox News , 4 Oct. 2021",
"It has also been shown to hobble alpha viruses that cause equine encephalitis , the Ebola virus and others. \u2014 Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times , 1 Oct. 2021",
"The sentinel chicken -- among many deployed by the department throughout the county -- detected Eastern equine encephalitis , or EEE, in zip code 36541, which covers western Mobile County. \u2014 Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al , 1 Sep. 2021",
"One of the chickens used by the Mobile County Health Department to detect a mosquito-borne virus tested positive for Eastern equine encephalitis , the agency said Tuesday. \u2014 Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al , 1 Sep. 2021"
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"the equation of material wealth with happiness",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Domestic production is one answer to that part of the equation , at least. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 28 June 2022",
"Some tweaks to the script in the long-running dinner show have taken war out of the equation \u2014 and even the practice of servers slamming guests\u2019 food on the table in metal buckets has been done away with. \u2014 Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel , 27 June 2022",
"The low energy part of the equation suggests that battery life will be improved, too. \u2014 David Phelan, Forbes , 25 June 2022",
"For anyone who struggles to blow dry their own hair at home, hair dryer brushes take the guesswork out of the equation . \u2014 Jessica Teich, Good Housekeeping , 24 June 2022",
"And so really connecting the dots between the supply and demand sides of the equation . \u2014 Fortune Editors, Fortune , 23 June 2022",
"But for China, an ability to start a full-scale invasion would be just part of the equation . \u2014 New York Times , 12 June 2022",
"But as Garvey, the chef and owner at SOLA, views it, authenticity is only part of the equation . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"By taking passwords out of the equation , consumers will be protected from phishing and other remote attacks that continue to plague today\u2019s networked economy\u2014and businesses will be freed from the liability of maintaining them on their servers. \u2014 Max Eddy, PCMAG , 7 June 2022"
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"\u2014 Kathleen Hill Zeller"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson and Emmylou Harris also sing equine -centric tunes over lyrical montages. \u2014 Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times , 14 Oct. 2021",
"The assortment of art and antiques continues into the home\u2019s adjacent stable, though the pieces here \u2014 including a photograph of 1953 Kentucky Derby winner Dark Star \u2014 are clearly equine themed. \u2014 Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal , 3 Sep. 2020",
"Sailing events are often held outside of land-locked host cities, and equestrian competitions were held in Stockholm in 1956 and Hong Kong in 2008 to avoid quarantine and other equine travel issues. \u2014 Jon Herskovitz, Bloomberg.com , 29 Apr. 2020",
"That epidemic spread from the Middle East to parts of India and led to hundreds of thousands of equine deaths. \u2014 Christa Lest\u00e9-lasserre, Science | AAAS , 16 Apr. 2020",
"Because Emergent\u2019s technology involves additional steps than processing plasma from one person and infusing it into another, Saward says testing of the company\u2019s human and equine plasma will take a few months. \u2014 Alice Park, Time , 26 Mar. 2020",
"Their adult daughter manages the equine program at her alma mater, Lake Erie College. \u2014 Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland , 21 Feb. 2020",
"The death of a horse after a race Thursday at Laurel Park Race Track has added to concerns about a sport that has been under scrutiny across the country for a staggering number of equine fatalities. \u2014 Jean Marbella, baltimoresun.com , 22 Nov. 2019",
"The 5-year-old gelding trained by Craig Dollase was taken to the track\u2019s equine hospital for diagnostics and X-rays. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 2 Mar. 2020"
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"You shouldn't equate those two things.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But a mild recession doesn\u2019t equate to mild inflation. \u2014 Will Daniel, Fortune , 18 June 2022",
"And potential candidate doesn\u2019t automatically equate to should definitely get bariatric surgery. \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"And while Trump may still be a kingmaker for some, his endorsement doesn't equate to a sure path to victory either. \u2014 Bybrittany Shepherd, ABC News , 17 May 2022",
"More television time doesn\u2019t equate to any extra fun or anything worthwhile. \u2014 Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone , 6 May 2022",
"Tent encampments still blight cities, however, and many voters equate them with crime. \u2014 George Skelton, Los Angeles Times , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Earnings are based on the amount of movement measured by GPS tracking that is made during five-minute increments that equate to one unit of Energy, which naturally replenishes over time once fully depleted. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 27 May 2022",
"Gilbert said about 20% of ASAE attendees historically book events in the host city within five years, which could equate to about $500 million in business. \u2014 Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland , 10 May 2022",
"Around this time, notices of a green stone were listed in a London newspaper with a price attached that would equate to about $7 million dollars, or four tons of gold. \u2014 Stellene Volandes, Town & Country , 14 Apr. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On the far side of the orbit, the spacecraft initially crossed the equatorial plane well beyond the orbit of Ganymede. \u2014 William Harwood, CBS News , 8 June 2021",
"Conversely, when the lunar plane tilts further away from the equatorial plane , tides on Earth are muted, relatively. \u2014 Brian Mcnoldy, The Conversation , 23 Apr. 2021",
"Regular: These moons have relatively small orbits, which are often circular and roughly hover along the parent object's equatorial plane . \u2014 Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics , 7 Apr. 2020",
"Closer to Taiwan than Tokyo, and on a similar equatorial plane as Hawaii, Okinawa has a tropical climate and vibrant marine life\u2014much of it just off Sunabe. \u2014 Katherine Lagrave, Bon App\u00e9tit , 6 Nov. 2019",
"The spaceplane was launched into a more highly inclined orbit than previous missions\u2014meaning a larger angle off the equatorial plane of the planet. \u2014 Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics , 7 Sep. 2017"
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"You shouldn't equate those two things.",
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"But a mild recession doesn\u2019t equate to mild inflation. \u2014 Will Daniel, Fortune , 18 June 2022",
"And potential candidate doesn\u2019t automatically equate to should definitely get bariatric surgery. \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"And while Trump may still be a kingmaker for some, his endorsement doesn't equate to a sure path to victory either. \u2014 Bybrittany Shepherd, ABC News , 17 May 2022",
"More television time doesn\u2019t equate to any extra fun or anything worthwhile. \u2014 Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone , 6 May 2022",
"Tent encampments still blight cities, however, and many voters equate them with crime. \u2014 George Skelton, Los Angeles Times , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Earnings are based on the amount of movement measured by GPS tracking that is made during five-minute increments that equate to one unit of Energy, which naturally replenishes over time once fully depleted. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 27 May 2022",
"Gilbert said about 20% of ASAE attendees historically book events in the host city within five years, which could equate to about $500 million in business. \u2014 Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland , 10 May 2022",
"Around this time, notices of a green stone were listed in a London newspaper with a price attached that would equate to about $7 million dollars, or four tons of gold. \u2014 Stellene Volandes, Town & Country , 14 Apr. 2022"
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"She is well- equipped to deal with emergencies.",
"Those students are not equipped for the challenges of college.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Healy-Silcott said the price tag to equip and send the team to Towson totaled $40,000. \u2014 Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun , 30 June 2022",
"Civilian assistance for the military effort has been a feature of Ukrainian resistance from Day 1 of the Feb. 24 invasion, as ordinary folk dropped everything to help and raided their bank accounts to equip hastily assembled new units. \u2014 John Leicester, The Christian Science Monitor , 27 June 2022",
"Secure access service edge (SASE) can equip organizations to not only take advantage of all the benefits 5G has to offer but address and protect against new security threats 5G networks introduce. \u2014 Kelly Ahuja, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"How does having more comprehensive data enable or equip Indigenous communities to better protect women, girls, non-binary, and two-spirit people in their communities",
"Yet new research suggests that MBAs equip corporate leaders with one overriding skill: cutting workers' pay. \u2014 Irina Ivanova, CBS News , 4 Apr. 2022",
"The Mount Airy Police Department will soon equip its officers with body cameras, after receiving state funding to purchase the equipment, Chief Douglas Reitz said. \u2014 Cameron Goodnight, Baltimore Sun , 20 Mar. 2022",
"But Boss argues that many losses do not follow such models, and our reliance on them does not equip us to cope. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Dec. 2021",
"But\u2014as the Russians have been showing us\u2014there\u2019s nothing like actual fighting to equip a military with lessons to succeed in actual fighting. \u2014 Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ , 7 June 2022"
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"modification of Anglo-French eskiper, eschiper to load on board a ship, embark, outfit, man, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English scipian equip a ship, scip ship":"Verb"
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"Domestic production is one answer to that part of the equation , at least. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 28 June 2022",
"Some tweaks to the script in the long-running dinner show have taken war out of the equation \u2014 and even the practice of servers slamming guests\u2019 food on the table in metal buckets has been done away with. \u2014 Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel , 27 June 2022",
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"Post- equinoctial 90s qualify as unusual in Philly \u2014 Anthony R. Wood, Philly.com , 26 Sep. 2017",
"The inner bark of that red willow is the main ingredient used to make tobacco for the equinoctial Sacred Pipe ceremony, which is meant to rekindle the sacred fire of life on Earth. \u2014 National Geographic , 17 Mar. 2016"
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"Posad Pokrovske, which lies almost exactly equidistant between Mykolaiv and Kherson, is the last point under Ukrainian control. \u2014 Nabih Bulosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 13 Apr. 2022",
"For the past five years the Libertine atelier has occupied a cavernous former automotive garage off Santa Monica Boulevard, equidistant from Paramount Studios and Netflix\u2019s sparkling headquarters. \u2014 Christina Binkley, Town & Country , 24 Feb. 2022",
"But Tucson is nearly equidistant from both cities anyway. \u2014 Bruce Pascoe, The Arizona Republic , 16 Feb. 2022",
"Otherwise the book is perfectly equidistant between riff and investigation. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Ideally situated near the halfway point of Montauk Highway, Topping Rose House is equidistant from the best shopping, caf\u00e9s, museums, galleries, and restaurants that the East End has to offer. \u2014 Ariel Okin, Vogue , 31 Jan. 2022",
"The naval air station at Sigonella in Sicily, where long-range surveillance aircraft are deployed, is almost exactly equidistant from Beirut and Gibraltar at opposite ends of the sea. \u2014 Loren Thompson, Forbes , 15 Nov. 2021",
"Chicago and Knowles are about 3,700 miles away from the Isle of Man, which is located almost equidistant between England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. \u2014 Gary Stoller, Forbes , 3 Nov. 2021"
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"The state health laboratories work to investigate and mitigate life-threatening diseases, including COVID-19, eastern equine encephalitis , Ebola, H1N1 and Zika. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 25 Nov. 2021",
"Back in 2013, the main target at Emory\u2019s DRIVE was Venezuelan equine encephalitis , a mosquito-borne illness with a high mortality rate that can affect people and horses. \u2014 Helena Oliviero, ajc , 25 Nov. 2021",
"No human or animal cases of West Nile or Eastern equine encephalitis , also known as EEE, have been detected so far this year in Massachusetts, DPH said. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 15 July 2021",
"Connecticut health officials are cautioning southeastern area state residents after the potentially deadly mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus was detected for the first time this year. \u2014 Keira Wingate, USA TODAY , 5 Oct. 2021",
"Connecticut health officials are cautioning southeastern area state residents over the potentially deadly mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus after detecting virus-positive mosquitoes. \u2014 Kayla Rivas, Fox News , 4 Oct. 2021",
"It has also been shown to hobble alpha viruses that cause equine encephalitis , the Ebola virus and others. \u2014 Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times , 1 Oct. 2021",
"The sentinel chicken -- among many deployed by the department throughout the county -- detected Eastern equine encephalitis , or EEE, in zip code 36541, which covers western Mobile County. \u2014 Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al , 1 Sep. 2021",
"One of the chickens used by the Mobile County Health Department to detect a mosquito-borne virus tested positive for Eastern equine encephalitis , the agency said Tuesday. \u2014 Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al , 1 Sep. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"These vehicles were not pulled by horses, but by oxen and other draft animals, or equids such as donkeys or mules. \u2014 National Geographic , 30 Apr. 2020",
"Cattle and other livestock can also transmit diseases such as anthrax and babesiosis to the wild equids . \u2014 National Geographic , 25 Mar. 2020",
"Bovids, equids and, in particular, canids, were put to work by H. sapiens; felids always took a slightly different view of the matter, but were indulged for their rodent-catching talents. \u2014 The Economist , 22 June 2019",
"The art includes 11 unharnessed camels and two equids \u2014donkeys, mules or horses\u2014grazing in natural environments. \u2014 Jason Daley, Smithsonian , 14 Feb. 2018",
"With beautifully Zebra-esque striped legs, soft gray fur, a white belly and spiky black-and-gray manes, these asses stand out from the wild equid pack. \u2014 Saryn Chorney, PEOPLE.com , 2 Aug. 2017",
"P. convexa also died out, perhaps because of a specialized foraging dependency on proboscideans, equids , camelids, or other large mammals. \u2014 Brian Switek, WIRED , 14 Mar. 2011"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For one thing, there is no world gas market that causes prices to equilibrate the way there is for oil\u2014or coal, wheat, lobsters, etc. \u2014 Michael Lynch, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"But unlike a diamond, this prethermal time crystal is not forever; if the experiment ran for long enough, the system would gradually equilibrate and the cyclical behavior would break down. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 2 Aug. 2021",
"There is no magic formula that says value and growth stocks must equilibrate . \u2014 Mike Bird, WSJ , 10 May 2021",
"Once the pressure equilibrated to zero across the outer hatch door, the men pushed it open and swam the remaining 20 vertical feet between them, sunlight, and safety. \u2014 Rachel Lance, Wired , 7 Apr. 2020",
"The longer the crisis continues, and if supply and demand do not equilibrate , the more energy jobs could be in jeopardy. \u2014 NBC News , 9 Mar. 2020",
"This allowed the debris to evenly mix and equilibrate , producing the body's current spherical shape. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 29 Oct. 2019",
"Oceans acidify in the blink of a geologic eye In the late 1700s, the oceans had equilibrated to be slightly alkaline, with a pH of about 8.1\u2014roughly the same level of acidity as an egg white. \u2014 Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic , 7 Aug. 2019",
"This tendency to equilibrate , like a cup of coffee cooling to room temperature, is the most familiar outcome of the second law of thermodynamics, which says that energy constantly spreads and the entropy of the universe always increases. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 16 June 2019"
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"Jackson\u2019s mother, Brooks uncovered, was an avid equestrienne who died in a riding accident. \u2014 Samantha Baskind, Smithsonian Magazine , 8 June 2022",
"Elsa Voss, an accomplished equestrienne , artist, and breeder of draft horses, was also the founder of the Humane Society of Harford County. \u2014 Maryanna Skowronski, Baltimore Sun , 6 Apr. 2022",
"By 1918, the company employed around 250 performers, from acrobats to equestriennes , clowns to lion tamers. \u2014 Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian , 22 June 2018",
"Kate's other talent Before pursuing a modeling career at age 15, Upton was a competitive equestrienne who won 4 championships. \u2014 Fox News , 10 May 2018",
"The New Canaan Troop (still in existence today) was founded by young Carr's riding instructor and mentor, the renowned 20th c. American equestrienne and author, Margaret Cabell Self. \u2014 courant.com , 28 Feb. 2018",
"Anne Marguerite Moe, a retired editor and proofreader and Howard County equestrienne , died of ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Sept. 3 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. \u2014 Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com , 22 Sep. 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"This will include conservation communication to specific interest groups such as our master gardeners, and equestrian community. \u2014 Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic , 6 July 2022",
"The crowd at MoMA rallied around the fantasy, spurred on by Gigi Hadid in haute equestrian ready-to-wear. \u2014 Sean Santiago, ELLE Decor , 8 June 2022",
"The sports include: basketball, bocce, bowling, cheerleading, equestrian , flag football, golf, gymnastics, swimming, soccer, softball, surfing, tennis, volleyball and a triathlon. \u2014 Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel , 7 June 2022",
"Today, Helmets On Heads \u2014 the nonprofit Tanner founded that year \u2014 has given away 875 ATV, motorcycle, bicycle and equestrian helmets across Alaska, from Northway to Naknek, as well as Anchorage, Mat-Su, the Kenai Peninsula and Fairbanks. \u2014 Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News , 30 May 2022",
"There also is rental income from agricultural, residential, equestrian and hunting leases. \u2014 Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant , 5 May 2022",
"As his education progressed Mr. Oldfather discovered many parallels between the legal and equestrian worlds. \u2014 Lettie Teague, WSJ , 24 Mar. 2022",
"For the next two hours, the 35-foot tall, 30-foot wide balloon filled with 6,500 cubic feet of helium will lead the way for a steady stream of marching bands, equestrian units, Kentucky notables, and colorful floats. \u2014 Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Trinity was 9 years old in March 2019 when she was killed and her body was dumped along an equestrian trail in Hacienda Heights near the Pomona Freeway. \u2014 Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Delany will play Margaret, an affluent and influential equestrian and owner of a sprawling horse farm and animal preserve. \u2014 Joe Otterson, Variety , 20 June 2022",
"Princess Anne's only daughter Zara is a skilled equestrian (a love of horses seems to run in the family). \u2014 Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country , 19 May 2022",
"Despite the accident, Vanderpump isn't ruling out life as an equestrian . \u2014 Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Villa Nafissa was also zoned for up to 50 horses, as the owner was an avid equestrian since a young age. \u2014 Emma Reynolds, Robb Report , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Sofia Abramovich is a 26-year-old professional equestrian . \u2014 Carmela Chirinos, Fortune , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Dressed in a glittering black tweed jacket, pants and sleek riding boots, Casiraghi \u2014 a veteran equestrian \u2014 trotted on the runway to the surprise of attendees, including Pharrell Williams. \u2014 Robyn Merrett, PEOPLE.com , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Born in Chicago, Nassar \u2014 an equestrian who competes for Egypt internationally \u2014 was raised in Kuwait by his parents. \u2014 Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com , 18 Oct. 2021",
"The prosecution said the evidence shows Goodman, after his cellphone stopped working, walked directly from the crash site about 100 yards away to a trailer occupied by an equestrian . \u2014 Marc Freeman, sun-sentinel.com , 13 Sep. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Polling shows that more people think Labor Day marks the end of summer than the fall equinox . \u2014 Harry Enten, CNN , 29 May 2022",
"The crop was planted unusually late, after the autumnal equinox , the traditional last day of planting in the area. \u2014 New York Times , 11 May 2022",
"This year, the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere occurs on September 22 \u2014 the official beginning of fall. \u2014 CBS News , 20 Sep. 2021",
"Other cultures used the autumn equinox or the winter solstice to mark the new year. \u2014 CNN , 15 Dec. 2021",
"Kicking off at sundown on October 31 and continuing through November 1, Samhain ushered in the transition from the autumn equinox to the winter solstice. \u2014 Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine , 22 Oct. 2021",
"In short, the holiday falls on the first Sunday after the full Moon on or following the spring equinox . \u2014 Wyatte Grantham-philips, USA TODAY , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Though the calendar calls it springtime, the thermometer on the truck reads minus 28 degrees Fahrenheit on this sunny morning a few days past spring equinox . \u2014 Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Sunday, which was the spring equinox , saw a high of 63 degrees at O\u2019Hare International Airport, the city\u2019s official weather monitoring site, and even that was well above what is typical for this time of year, said meteorologist Todd Kluber. \u2014 Katherine Rosenberg-douglas, chicagotribune.com , 21 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"At the end of the skit, an equerry looked out the Buckingham Palace windows and told the Queen that the party is about to begin. \u2014 Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com , 6 June 2022",
"An equerry then tells the queen and the bear that the concert is about to begin, as a clip of the crowd outside Buckingham Palace is shown. \u2014 Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR , 4 June 2022",
"Mark divorced in 1992, and the Princess Royal went on to marry Royal Navy officer and equerry to the Queen, Timothy Laurence, that same year. \u2014 Cnn Staff, CNN , 2 June 2022",
"Prince William and his equerry followed shortly behind. \u2014 Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com , 10 May 2022",
"In the United Kingdom, the parties are seeking testimony from Shukri Walker, a woman who is alleged to have seen Andrew and Giuffre together at a nightclub 20 years ago, and Robert Ashton Olney, who was a royal equerry for Andrew. \u2014 Washington Post , 31 Jan. 2022",
"More combative if not entirely unsympathetic is the equerry , Maj. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 Nov. 2021",
"In 1926, the then-Duke of York (Queen Elizabeth\u2019s father) played in the doubles tournament with his equerry . \u2014 Elise Taylor, Vogue , 1 July 2021",
"Her father Edward John Spencer, a remote descendant of Henry VII, was an equerry , or officer of the British royal household, under George VI, Queen Elizabeth II's father. \u2014 Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com , 16 Nov. 2020"
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},
"equilibrious":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": characterized by equilibrium : balanced":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin aequilibrium + English -ous":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-123819"
},
"equestrian director":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an official of a circus or carnival who is the stage manager and master of ceremonies of the performance and has general responsibility for the performers \u2014 compare ringmaster":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-125756"
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"equatorward":{
"type":[
"adverb or adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": toward or near the equator":[
"currents flowing equatorward",
"equatorward winds"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"i-\u02c8kw\u0101-t\u0259r-w\u0259rd"
],
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"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1875, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-135647"
},
"equilibrist":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": someone (such as a rope dancer) who performs difficult feats of balancing":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cc\u0113-kw\u0259-\u02c8li-brist",
"i-\u02c8kwi-l\u0259-brist",
"\u02cce-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1760, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-211924"
},
"equilibristat":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an apparatus consisting essentially of a U-tube with capillary ends designed to test the equilibrium of a railroad car when rounding a curve and measure any deviation therefrom":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cc\u0113kw\u0259\u02c8libr\u0259\u02ccstat also \u02ccek-"
