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equalize

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. compensate; make the score equal [syn: equalise , get even ] make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching; "let's equalize the duties among all employees in this office"; "The company matched the discount policy of its competitors" [syn: equal , match ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "make equal, cause to be equal in amount or degree," from equal (adj.) + -ize . Sports score sense attested by 1925. Related: Equalized ; equalizing .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Equalize is an Urban Desi album by the UK band Swami released on September 24, 2007. Their two previous albums were DesiRock in 2004, and So Who Am I in 2005 (a re-mixed version of DesiRock ) The track listing was confirmed on April 16, 2007 by BBC Radio ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Equalize \E"qual*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Equalized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Equalizing .] [Cf. F. ['e]galiser.] To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an equalizing goal British English (= a goal that gives you the same number of points as your opponent ) ▪ A loud cheer went up as he scored the equalizing goal. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Liverpool equalized in the ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree. 2 (context obsolete transitive English) To be equal to; to equal, to rival. (16th-19th c.) 3 (context intransitive sports English) To make the scoreline equal ...

Usage examples of equalize.

My whole future depended on getting my diabetic ecology equalized within the shifting sand dunes of my bodily functions.

In both tables costs are shown with and without transportation charges on foreign hats, and ad valorem rates of duty necessary to equalize differences in foreign and domestic costs have been computed.

Under the circumstances, to confine the findings of the commission to an increased duty on lower-priced hats is, in one important particular, to fall short of the statutory responsibility undertaken when the commission ordered an investigation of the adequacy of the present 60 per cent ad valorem duty as a measure of equalized costs in the United States and foreign countries.

If deficient in strength, the quantity of the charges should be increased until the ranges are equalized, in order that the sight-bars may still indicate the proper elevations for each charge and distance.

In colds, fevers, and inflammatory attacks, warm sweating teas should be taken freely, and hot foot baths, or a hot general bath, employed to assist in equalizing the circulation of the blood and restoring the equilibrium of the system.

As the last of the Speeds limped home and the great outer doors closed, he overrode the safety lock that would have kept them waiting outside Main Deck until the air pressure equalized.

The cop was a little shorter than he was, but also stockier, which helped to equalize things.

This was where the torpedos were loaded in the tubes, the tubes flooded with water and their pressure equalized with that outside, the muzzle doors opened, and the critical dials and gauges read and reread to insure a successful firing.

Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies.

My nostrils flared as force surged into me, backwashing at my theoretical extremities until the power equalized.

Men hacked at the rolling knot of their bodies, and in one moment a machai hacked down into his back, but he had a deathlock on the gun and meant to batter Tain loose from the one weapon that equalized the odds.

In this we follow a law as old as any, the law of dramaturgy, which gets its best effects from an equalizing of forces.

The atmospheric pressure would have flattened it out long ago, had it not been for the jagged rent above which had allowed the pressure to be equalized.

He paused to work his jaws and equalize the growing pressure within his ear canals.

Fortunately the pilot equalized to Mars-surface pressure once we all had our masks on, which gave me twenty minutes or so to get used to it.