What is "equate"

Usage examples of "equate".

In this case, the goals of the Anabasis can be equated to the goals of Esro Mondrian.

John guessed that the Anointed did, indeed, equate physical strength with ambition and power, and allowed no big strong men into positions of power lest they one day overthrow him.

Americans had their blemishes, particularly a curious kind of practical self-righteousness, but at least they did not brim with the world-weariness Europeans often equated with cultural maturity.

She looked like a jock, or jockette, and people equated jocks with stupidity, or at least a certain rah-rah thickness.

All in all, I loved Lucius Claudius dearly, but he was a creature of his patrician upbringing, trained from birth never to feel empathy for a slave, and he simply could not equate the fate of a man like Motho with that of a man like Lucullus.

Others, such as van Fraassen, maintain that the alternative to reifying the contents of science is to equate science not with a dogma but with a quest in which one immerses oneself in a worldview without reifying it, accepting scientific theories as constructs that are more or less successful in making the appearances of the natural world intelligible.

I want to take a moment here to respond to the other common concern voiced by my female patients over the years: Second only to cleanliness, many women are resistant to the thought of penetrating their partners due to an odd societal stigma that equates anal stimulation with homosexuality and, hence, emasculation.

The mancus was equated with thirty pence, probably from the time of its introduction.

But Tocsin hammered away at it, equating social conscience with Saturnism and therefore making Megan appear to be, if not a traitor to her planet, at least something of a fellow traveler.

Egypt Chateaubriand believes he can equate the absence of France with the absence of a free government ruling a happy people.

Typical of the breed was the Revd Sylvester Graham, who equated insanity with eating ketchup and mustard, and believed that the consumption of meat would result in the sort of hormonal boisterousness that leads men to take advantage of pliant women.

India into Tibet was based on the emanative character of buddhahood which provided a group of transcendent Buddhas between the phenomenal world and the principle of buddhahood as the Absolute, which was equated either with the principle of voidness or of universal consciousness.

Spacers tended to equate robots with machines, and thus Spacers wondered how the Settlers managed without machines.

This has led some theorists to attempt to simply equate the BPM and the centaur, and this will never do: the centaur is the entrace to the transpersonal through the front door, the BPM, through the back door, so to speak.

The damage profile equated to that caused by plasma fire, and - from the lack of obvious patterning - either an enormous plasma event very far away or plasma fire - possibly fusion-sourced - much closer but buffered in some way.