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equate Definition

equate (ē kwāt′, i-)

transitive verb equat′·ed, equat′·ing

    1. to make equal or equivalent; equalize
    2. to treat, regard, or express as equal, equivalent, identical, or closely related to equate wealth with happiness
  2. Math. to state or express the equality of; put in the form of an equation

Etymology: ME equaten < L aequatus, pp. of aequare, to make equal < aequus, plain, even

intransitive verb

to be equal

equate Related Forms

equat′·able adjective

equate Synonyms

equate

v.

  1. To compare

    liken, associate, relate; see compare 1.

  2. To make equal

    equalize, average, balance; see equalize.

equate Usage Examples

Object

  • Zionism: In 1975 the UN General Assembly passed a resolution equating Zionism with racism.
  • Roman: The Romans equated Zeus with their own supreme god Jupiter ( aka Jove ).
  • religion: Also, it's difficult to equate one religion with another in the way he seems to do.
  • success: Furthermore it would be a myopic distortion to equate success at Tesco as a negative for the retail industry as a whole.
  • value: Many amateur firers equate value with duration and this simply is not the case.
  • term: To equate theosophical terms to my terms: " Ego " ( theosophy ) equals " soul " ( my term ).

Preposition: with

  • lack: Lack of capacity could be equated with lack of insight.
  • quality: It's fine for people who want to become popular, but when did popular equate with quality?
  • health: Equated with health employed it Expat Insurance Service is care in the us.
  • emotion: One area of confusion is that feelings are often loosely equated with emotions.
  • value: The types of things that enchant are more a question of signs, which I equate with values.
  • term: These terms are frequently equated with the statistical terms " quantitative " and " qualitative " .

Used with why or when

what: With that kind of an introduction I can't quite equate what is playing now.

Modifying Another Word

  • roughly: Rag may be roughly equated with the Western term mode or scale.
  • mistakenly: Rogers ' and Maslow's theories of actualisation are often mistakenly equated.
  • broadly: A one-year, full-time further education course broadly equates to 20 SUMs or 800 learning hours.
  • necessarily: More investment doesn't necessarily equate with better health care.
  • approximately: This would approximately equate to one full container of illicit spirits being consumed in the UK each day of the year.
  • automatically: For those people who automatically equate atheist with evil-doer: get an education, will you?

Preposition: in

mind: Otherwise the danger is that what George Galloway says will be equated in the public mind with what Respect thinks.