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Equal   /ˈikwəl/   Listen
Equal

adjective
1.
Having the same quantity, value, or measure as another.  "All men are equal before the law"
2.
Having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task.  Synonym: adequate.  "Her training was adequate" , "She was adequate to the job" , "He was equal to the task"
noun
1.
A person who is of equal standing with another in a group.  Synonyms: compeer, match, peer.
verb
(past & past part. equaled or equalled; pres. part. equaling or equalling)
1.
Be identical or equivalent to.  Synonym: be.
2.
Be equal to in quality or ability.  Synonyms: match, rival, touch.  "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues" , "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"
3.
Make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching.  Synonyms: equalise, equalize, equate, match.  "The company matched the discount policy of its competitors"



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"Equal" Quotes from Famous Books



... indeed, hitherto avoided the practice of uniting gay and solemn subjects in the same paper, because it seems absurd for an author to counteract himself, to press at once with equal force upon both parts of the intellectual balance, or give medicines, which, like the double poison of Dryden, destroy the force of one another. I have endeavoured sometimes to divert, and sometimes to ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, In Nine Volumes - Volume the Third: The Rambler, Vol. II • Samuel Johnson
... with equal contributions, Bud generously donating a five-dollar bill he had received that day for a solo at a musicale ...
— Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley • Belle K. Maniates
... very thankful to you for the honor shown my father, who is equal to the gods. I permit the funeral, and once ...
— The Pharaoh and the Priest - An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt • Boleslaw Prus
... Ronder? Ronder was, for a moment, uncertain. Here, he was happy to think, he must go with the greatest care. He did not smile as he had smiled upon Bentinck-Major. He spoke to Foster as to an equal. ...
— The Cathedral • Hugh Walpole
... trees, the fields, the glorious sun. He gives cotton to clothe you, corn to eat, devoted friends to teach you. Be joyful. Be good. Above all, be thrifty and save your money, and do not complain and whine at your apparent disadvantages. Remember that God did not create men equal but unequal, and set metes and bounds. It is not for us to question the wisdom of the Almighty, but to bow ...
— The Quest of the Silver Fleece - A Novel • W. E. B. Du Bois


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