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/ˈikwəlˌaɪz/ Listen

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Equalize v. t. (past & past part. equalized; pres. part. equalizing)

To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. "One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low." "No system of instruction will completely equalize natural powers."

To pronounce equal; to compare as equal. "Which we equalize, and perhaps would willingly prefer to the Iliad."

To be equal to; equal; to match. (Obs.) "It could not equalize the hundredth part Of what her eyes have kindled in my heart."

Equalizing bar (Railroad Mach.), a lever connecting two axle boxes, or two springs in a car truck or locomotive, to equalize the pressure on the axles.

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"Equalize" Quotes from Famous Books

... law, any cold body, whether dead or alive, placed in close contact with a warm body, will abstract from the latter as much heat as necessary to equalize the temperature of both. The transfer of caloric will begin at the place at which the two bodies are nearest to each other. The wet sheet, which touches the patient's body all over the surface, abstracts heat from the latter, till the ...

— Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms • Charles Munde

... country the generous magnanimity of the American nation. And, finally, the Message expressed the hope, which was certainly felt by the entire public, that those happier circumstances which should equalize the footing of the two nations in the matter of an alliance ...

— The Message • Alec John Dawson

... inequalities have been supposed to attend the operation of our federal system in respect to its bearings upon the different interests of the Union. In making the basis of representation the basis of taxation the framers of the Constitution intended to equalize the burdens which are necessary to support the Government, and the adoption of that ratio, while it accomplished this object, was also the means of adjusting other great topics arising out of the conflicting views respecting the political equality of the ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... laws and such social arrangements is no more than the New Republican's duty. It may be impossible to select and intermarry the selected best of our race, but at any rate we can do a thousand things to equalize the chances and make good and desirable qualities lead swiftly and clearly ...

— Mankind in the Making • H. G. Wells

... have never seen attained to the same extent under any other circumstances. They fortify the health and strengthen the nerves. Their mental and moral influence, also, is great. My observation convinces me that they equalize the spirits, invigorate the intellect, and calm the temper. I am witness to the fact that no one among the Hofwyl students was injured by them in any way, and that very many acquired a strength and an address that astonished themselves. I myself had ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 • Various

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