equate

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verb (used with object), e·quat·ed, e·quat·ing.

to regard, treat, or represent as equivalent: We cannot equate the possession of wealth with goodness.
to state the equality of or between; put in the form of an equation: to equate growing prosperity with the physical health of a nation.
to reduce to an average; make such correction or allowance in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison.

Origin of equate

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin aequātus (past participle of aequāre to make equal), equivalent to aequ(us) equal + -ātus -ate¹

Related formse·quat·a·bil·i·ty, noune·quat·a·ble, adjectiveun·e·quat·ed, adjective

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Related Words for equated

liken, relate, associate, even, represent, compare, regard, consider, level, assimilate, average, tally, parallel, square, treat, equalize, offset, pair, hold, agree

Examples from the Web for equated

Contemporary Examples of equated

Wright referred to the “autism crisis” and equated having a child with autism to “not living.”
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Emily Shire
June 13, 2014
Agrees that illegal immigrants could be equated with ‘biological weapons’
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The Daily Beast
February 21, 2014
The words at issue were when Robertson equated people having sex with animals as the same as sex between consenting gay adults.
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Dean Obeidallah
December 19, 2013
She equated what she felt for God with a Proustian desire, which she agreed was “the highest point of existence.”
Flannery O’Connor’s Desire for God
Jen Vafidis
November 13, 2013
They equated Israeli policy with apartheid and insisted the country was built on ethnic cleansing.
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Peter Beinart
November 5, 2013

Historical Examples of equated

The accession of Theopompos was equated with that of Alcamenes by Eratosthenes.
The Heroic Age
H. Munro Chadwick
It is thus the name of a Celtic sun-god, equated with Apollo in that character.
The Religion of the Ancient Celts
J. A. MacCulloch
It is not clear why Mars should have been equated with this god.
The Religion of the Ancient Celts
J. A. MacCulloch
It seems clear that Satyagraha cannot be equated with Christian pacifism.
Introduction to Non-Violence
Theodore Paullin
Our sense of the depths from which he has ascended is equated only by our appreciation of the future opening before him.
The Prehistoric World
E. A. Allen

British Dictionary definitions for equated

equate

verb (mainly tr)

to make or regard as equivalent or similar, esp in order to compare or balance
maths to indicate the equality of; form an equation from
(intr) to be equal; correspond

Derived Formsequatable, adjectiveequatability, noun

Word Origin for equate

C15: from Latin aequāre to make equal

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Word Origin and History for equated

equate

early 15c., from Latin aequatus "level, levelled, even," past participle of aequare "make even or uniform, make equal," from aequus "level, even, equal" (see equal (adj.)). Earliest use in English was of astrological calculation, then "to make equal;" meaning "to regard as equal" is early 19c. Related: Equated; equating.