equate
[ih-kweyt]
- 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.
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Origin of equate
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liken, relate, associate, even, represent, compare, regard, consider, level, assimilate, average, tally, parallel, square, treat, equalize, offset, pair, hold, agreeExamples from the Web for equated
Contemporary Examples
Wright referred to the “autism crisis” and equated having a child with autism to “not living.”
Agrees that illegal immigrants could be equated with ‘biological weapons’
The words at issue were when Robertson equated people having sex with animals as the same as sex between consenting gay adults.
She equated what she felt for God with a Proustian desire, which she agreed was “the highest point of existence.”
They equated Israeli policy with apartheid and insisted the country was built on ethnic cleansing.
Historical Examples
The accession of Theopompos was equated with that of Alcamenes by Eratosthenes.
The Heroic AgeH. Munro Chadwick
It is thus the name of a Celtic sun-god, equated with Apollo in that character.
The Religion of the Ancient CeltsJ. A. MacCulloch
It is not clear why Mars should have been equated with this god.
The Religion of the Ancient CeltsJ. A. MacCulloch
It seems clear that Satyagraha cannot be equated with Christian pacifism.
Introduction to Non-ViolenceTheodore 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 WorldE. A. Allen
equate
- 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
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Word Origin
C15: from Latin aequāre to make equal
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Word Origin and History for equated
equate
v.
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.
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