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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



... Harvey found himself equal to the occasion, and was glad of it; he needed occupation of some kind to keep his thoughts from an unpleasant subject. After another talk with Morphew, in which they stuck to business, he ...
— The Whirlpool • George Gissing
... to set Radbourn upon his hobbyhorse. He outlined his plan of action: the abolition of all indirect taxes, the State control of all privileges the private ownership of which interfered with the equal rights of all. He would utterly destroy speculative holdings of the earth. He would have land everywhere brought to its best use, by appropriating all ground rents to the use of the state, etc., etc., to which the girl listened with eager interest, ...
— Other Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland
... the foot of his little iron bedstead, and began to wonder how much a year the warder made out of the dirty room. Having satisfied himself, by mathematical calculation, that the apartment was about equal in annual value to the freehold of a small street in the suburbs of London, he took to wondering what possible temptation could have induced a dingy-looking fly that was crawling over his pantaloons, to come into a close prison, when ...
— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens
... thai day were distracted by internal schisms. Else, and with any benefit from national unity, the headlong rapture of Jewish zeal, when combined in vindication of their insulted temple and temple-worship, would have been equal to the effort of dislodging the Roman legionary force for the moment from the military possession of Palestine. After which, although the restoration of the Roman supremacy could not ultimately have been evaded, it is not at all certain that a compromise might ...
— Theological Essays and Other Papers v1 • Thomas de Quincey
... the Belgian frontier, and that at that moment it was fighting on French soil. He told me this simply, with a touch of sadness in his voice, shaking his head gently. He added no comments of his own, and I did not feel equal to any reply. Full of foreboding, I returned to my train and Wattrelot. He had heard what the engine-driver had told me, and he said not a word, but looked out into the distance at the fiery sky. We sat down side by side ...
— In the Field (1914-1915) - The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry • Marcel Dupont


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