equate Definition
equate (ē kwāt′, i-)
transitive verb equat′·ed, equat′·ing
- to make equal or equivalent; equalize
- to treat, regard, or express as equal, equivalent, identical, or closely related to equate wealth with happiness
- 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.
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.
Browse dictionary entries near equate
- ‹ Equat Gui
- ‹ equanimity
- ‹ equally
- ‹ equalizer
- ‹ equalize
- ‹ equalization
- ‹ equality before the law
- ‹ equality
- ‹ equalitarian
- ‹ equal to
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