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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
uneven
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
uneven/unequalBritish English (= one in which one of the people, groups etc has a better chance of winning)
▪ Given their military strength, the war was a pretty unequal contest.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
very
▪ His work, to be discussed in a later chapter, was very uneven.
▪ But the right-hand column was a record of growth, though of a very uneven kind.
▪ Indeed the overall score of the 1980s has been very uneven.
▪ Once round the corner, I moved forward as fast as I dared, though the going was very uneven.
▪ Thus without control, a very uneven spread of available nurses arises.
▪ But it is also because of the geography of growth of the service sector, which has also been very uneven.
▪ Empirically, the advance of the Labour Party was very uneven.
▪ The outcome of such primary data collection, however, is very uneven.
■ NOUN
development
▪ A key concept in understanding such major shifts, and relating them to wider economic change, is uneven development.
▪ In fact, we find tendencies toward both the conservation and the erosion of non-capitalist forms as a consequence of uneven development.
▪ Writers often refer to uneven development between sectors, for example, or between firms within a sector.
▪ But uneven development does not simply mean that types and quantities of physical and social phenomena vary from place to place.
▪ The focus on the labour process and on the division of labour allows other forms of uneven development to be picked up.
▪ What is clear, however, is that decentralization ushered in a new form of uneven development.
▪ So Massey sees relations and changes in the realm of employment as key starting points for understanding uneven development.
▪ Moreover these different forms of uneven development are constructed one upon the other.
distribution
▪ These resources tend to be associated with each other, further compounding their uneven distribution.
▪ Overall service provision may be stabilized, but a more uneven distribution may result.
▪ Conflict was exacerbated by the uneven distribution of resources and development effort between the different regions of the country.
▪ This enables service managers to plan around the peaks and troughs created by an inevitable uneven distribution of learners.
ground
▪ The uneven ground around the mill was created by digging clay for brick-making.
▪ I hovered over the uneven ground of row three looking for an empty pad to park.
▪ Be careful when wheeling a trolley over any uneven ground if your child is in the seat.
▪ On uneven ground use a base and peg it down or use stones to steady it.
▪ Guiding the plough and following the team up and down the field over the uneven ground was very hard and tiring work.
▪ It is rushing towards me over the uneven ground.
▪ She came into the cobbled yard in front of the coach house walking carefully in her high-heeled sandals on the uneven ground.
surface
▪ Further coats of varnish should be applied undiluted and with care to avoid runs and an uneven surface.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an uneven income distribution
▪ His teeth were yellow and uneven.
▪ The driveway was uneven, with cracks running through it.
▪ The library's record collection is of uneven quality.
▪ The old uneven brick sidewalk was ripped up and replaced.
▪ We listened to the uneven rhythm of the wind's roar.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As with all the economic forces affecting firms' behaviour, the impact of change is uneven and defies generalisation.
▪ Early development is likely to be uneven because of differentiation in initial conditions.
▪ Moreover, the cooling would be uneven, and the resultant shrinkage and warping would leave the structure fissured and cracked.
▪ Suddenly he felt an uneven tug, the string went slack, and he realized that his efforts had been in vain.
▪ The uneven ground around the mill was created by digging clay for brick-making.
▪ The light was uneven in that perfect space; the corners in shadow, the long sides illuminated.
▪ This shift, however, has had a geographically uneven impact, both between and within the economic planning regions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Uneven

Uneven \Un*e"ven\, a. [AS. unefen. See Un- not, and Even, a.]

  1. Not even; not level; not uniform; rough; as, an uneven road or way; uneven ground.

  2. Not equal; not of equal length.

    Hebrew verse consists of uneven feet.
    --Peacham.

  3. Not divisible by two without a remainder; odd; -- said of numbers; as, 3, 7, and 11 are uneven numbers. [1913 Webster] Un*e"ven*ly, adv. -- Un*e"ven*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
uneven

Old English unefen "unequal, unlike, anomalous, irregular," from un- (1) "not" + even (adj.). Similar formation in Old Frisian oniovn, Middle Dutch oneven, Old High German uneban, German uneben, Old Norse ujafn. Meaning "broken, rugged" (in reference to terrain, etc.) is recorded from late 13c. Related: Unevenly; unevenness.\n

Wiktionary
uneven

a. 1 Not even 2 Not level or smooth 3 Not uniform 4 Varying in quality

WordNet
uneven
  1. adj. not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture; "an uneven color"; "uneven ground"; "uneven margins"; "wood with an uneven grain" [ant: even]

  2. (of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents; "vaudeville...waged an uneven battle against the church" [syn: mismatched]

  3. inconsistent in quality [syn: spotty]

Wikipedia
Uneven

Uneven is the fifth studio album by the progressive metal band Sieges Even. It is the last album to feature Greg Keller on vocals and Wolfgang Zenk on guitar. It is also the last album the band released till 2005. The album, as its predecessor, features keyboard elements and is very aggressive in lyrics and in sound. The album is a very rare album and is only available overseas.

Usage examples of "uneven".

Rarely had Berwick seen a better-shaped coat, or a smarter beaver, or so complete a mastery of whip and ribbons, as he steered the pair at a good pace down the uneven street amid the fishcarts and country wagons.

Tree branches laced and intertwined high above us, while generations of leaves and needles lay deep beneath the uneven blanketing of snow that had filtered down to the forest floor.

Would her love have stood up to such trials, in addition to her having to contend with his own impatient brusque nature and uneven temper?

Her homespun dress had been dyed a hasty and uneven black, and it matched the frown on her face.

A young woman near Malik suddenly stumbled on a patch of uneven ground.

To the skittish dismay of the buffalo, the parafoils billowed open and jolted their load over the uneven terrain.

The higgledly-piggledy line of the village houses with their uneven roof lines, crooked chimneys, thatch or slate roofs and pargeted or brick frontages, every detail deeply familiar, stood serenely unchanged.

The spotlight beam flickered palely over the low scrubby bushes and outlined the flat spiky plates of the prickly pears, but in the shifting uneven shadows that they threw, I reckoned I must be just another clump.

Bands and Stripes -- Dirty Borders -- Defective Selvedges -- Holes and Buttons -- Rubbed Places -- Creases -- Spots -- Loose and Bad Colours -- Badly Dyed Selvedges -- Hard Goods -- Brittle Goods -- Uneven Goods -- Removal of Bands, Stripes, Creases and Spots.

The serratures or jags on the edges are not so deep, the surface of the leaf is more uneven, the texture not so delicate, and the colour is a dark olive green.

It spasmed in mid-air, then spun and continued earthwards at a slower, uneven pace.

The translucent colours spilt in uneven grots down the white that glinted like the inside of a shell.

Elbryan was expected to bathe daily, to keep his clothing clean, and since his beard was splotchy and uneven, not yet that of a man, to keep his face clean shaven.

I-Five was strid ing rapidly along, more sure-footed on the uneven ground than any of them.

The sky was lit at uneven intervals by waste-gas fires, and the air was foul with the stink of petroleum distillates: aviation kerosene, gasoline, diesel fuel, benzine, nitrogen tetroxide for intercontinental missiles, lubricating oils of various grades, and complex petrochemicals identified only by their alphanumeric prefixes.