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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
evenly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be evenly spaced (=with equal spaces)
▪ For security, use three evenly spaced bolts per post.
be widely/evenly distributed
▪ This species of dolphin is widely distributed throughout the world.
breathe steadily/evenly
▪ The baby was fast asleep and breathing steadily.
cook sth evenly (=until all of it is equally well cooked )
▪ Turn the pie several times to cook it evenly.
evenly distributed
▪ Make sure the weight of the load is evenly distributed.
evenly/equally matched
▪ The two candidates are fairly evenly matched.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
balance
▪ The live recording shows few signs of an audience present and is evenly balanced between voices and orchestra.
▪ Ipswich scored 2/5, with one game, which is evenly balanced, to be adjudicated.
▪ The scales can be fairly evenly balanced.
coat
▪ Pour over the trout and turn to coat evenly.
▪ Dip quail in cornstarch mixture until evenly coated.
▪ Spread mustard coating evenly over browned rabbit.
▪ In a separate bowl, coat the cakes in the reserved bread crumbs until evenly coated.
distribute
▪ Moreover, unemployment has not been evenly distributed.
▪ The dough should be elastic, soft, tacky, but not sticky and the seeds should be evenly distributed.
▪ Unfortunately, these 13 million words are not evenly distributed across the 10 superfields.
▪ Break rice sticks into small pieces and distribute evenly among lettuce cups.
▪ If women were evenly distributed across the spectrum of employment, their pay levels would be much closer to those of men.
▪ Drizzle oil over polenta and brush to distribute evenly.
▪ Your weight should be evenly distributed between both legs.
▪ The twenty slides are evenly distributed by gender, with a good mix of age and race.
divide
▪ Staff seemed evenly divided - we received some smiles but also caught some rather unsavoury glances.
▪ And 86 to 90 percent comes from vehicle exhaust, evenly divided between diesel and gasoline engines.
▪ The large crowd at the meeting was nearly evenly divided between those supporting the ban and those against.
▪ Yocum may have been helped by the fact that the chamber audience was more evenly divided in allegiance.
match
▪ Outside, the sexes are more evenly matched, I admit.
▪ As a result, the two parties ended up being fairly evenly matched.
▪ In the early stage the sides were evenly matched effectively cancelling each other out.
▪ Flow is experienced when people perceive opportunities for action being evenly matched by their capabilities.
▪ Even if the cars were evenly matched, he knew he couldn't out-drive the police.
▪ Teams were evenly matched with experienced players and beginners carefully balanced.
▪ Teams were evenly matched and all games proved to be very close affairs with penalties deciding many of them.
▪ Edward felt that he and the malign force were fairly evenly matched.
say
▪ I said evenly, keeping my gaze level and steady and my posture perpendicular and upright.
space
▪ Such regular joint patterns appear to develop when the centres of contraction are evenly spaced.
▪ The windows were clean, the bed was neatly made and his four chairs were set evenly spaced around the table.
▪ It has 13 rounds evenly spaced, with two races in most months from April to September.
▪ Press Y to select evenly spaced columns.
split
▪ There also seems to be agreement that our new Congress will be more evenly split, and thus dysfunctional.
▪ Only in the old industrial states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island was opinion evenly split on this issue.
▪ In fact, the original version is virtually split evenly into two blocks of Orientation and Complicating Action.
▪ On the issue of abortion rights, Texans split evenly with 46 percent favoring abortion rights and 46 percent opposing abortion.
▪ Parents typically equate fairness with equality, seeking to evenly split the wealth they bequeath among their offspring.
▪ They surveyed 1, 598 organizations in 40 different industries about evenly split between manufacturing and the service sector.
▪ Other more constructive workers split evenly between those favoring casual and those preferring declared.
▪ Democratic party rules require that state delegations to the convention be split evenly between men and women.
spread
▪ For overcrowding is not spread evenly throughout the system.
▪ Add nut mixture and spread evenly.
Spread evenly with apple and peel mixture.
▪ This aroused the resentment of almost the whole front bench, but Wigg's hostility was not evenly spread.
▪ Although power is widely spread it does not necessarily mean that it is evenly spread between all groups.
▪ But, as we know, demand for seats is not evenly spread.
▪ Unlike the greenhouse gases, which spread evenly across the globe, sulphur dioxide's effects are short-lived and regional.
▪ Royal icing takes a little practice to spread evenly and pipe, but the results are well worth the effort.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "You can do whatever you like," she said evenly.
▪ Spread the coating evenly over the entire surface.
▪ The money was divided evenly among all four brothers.
▪ The patient was breathing evenly.
▪ Turn the chicken pieces so that they cook evenly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the increase in temperature will not be felt evenly.
▪ In your estate, divide assets evenly among children, even if one displeases you or if one becomes wealthy.
▪ Outside, the sexes are more evenly matched, I admit.
▪ Spread the bean mixture evenly over the fish and scatter the remaining ginger and green onion on top.
▪ The columns now appear more evenly arranged on the screen.
▪ This pattern of irregular loading subjects the vessel to quite different stress from that exerted by an evenly distributed load of coal.
▪ When softened, spread the potatoes evenly over bottom and sides of the pans as for pie shells.
▪ Your weight is evenly spread when you address the ball.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Evenly

Evenly \E"ven*ly\, adv. With an even, level, or smooth surface; without roughness, elevations, or depression; uniformly; equally; comfortably; impartially; serenely.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
evenly

Old English efenlice "evenly, equally;" see even (adj.) + -ly (2). Meaning "so as to produce uniformity of texture is early 15c.; that of "without surface irregularities, smoothly" is from 1630s.

Wiktionary
evenly

adv. 1 So as to make flat. 2 In a fair manner. 3 (context mathematics English) In a manner that leaves no remainder.

WordNet
evenly
  1. adv. in equal amounts or shares; in a balanced or impartial way; "a class evenly divided between girls and boys"; "they split their winnings equally"; "deal equally with rich and poor" [syn: equally] [ant: unevenly, unevenly]

  2. in a level and regular way [ant: unevenly]

Usage examples of "evenly".

Whatever be the inequality in the hardness of the materials of which the rock consists, even in the case of pudding-stone, the surface is abraded so evenly as to leave the impression that a rigid rasp has moved over all the undulations of the land, advancing in one and the same direction and levelling all before it.

It is evenly and not too thickly covered with fine sand or lycopodium powder and then caused to vibrate acoustically by the repeated drawing of a violin-bow with some pressure across the edge of the plate until a steady note becomes audible.

The authentic city-man, to whom all properly planned Nature is of cement evenly marked out in squares, may for half an hour be able to admire the alienage of a Vermont valley with woods sloping up to a stalwart peak, even though he may not be sure whether the trees are date-palms or monkey-puzzles, and whether the hazy mountain is built of reinforced concrete or merely green-painted brick.

Her hair was blonder than God had ever intended, and her skin was darkly and evenly tanned which made her perfect teeth seem even whiter when she smiled.

I was certain of success, as he could not see the ends of the pike without twisting his head, and I saw no reason why he should divert his gaze from the plate, which he had enough to do to carry evenly.

The train crashes and derailments over the past three years were almost evenly divided between the Amtrak passenger system and the various long-haul and short-line freight railroads.

The temperature is the simplest guide to the amount of fermentation taking place, and the uniformity of the temperature in all parts of the mass is desirable, as showing that all parts are fermenting evenly.

He was a taller man than Uncle Cynewulf, and probably weighed a lot more, but his flab seemed to be spread evenly all over him, muscle gone bad.

Marcus had gathered all of the pack horses, and Gils and I split the supplies evenly between us.

Ralph told him evenly, He had slipped the Derringer from his sleeve into his right hand as Gis had shown him.

Ham and Long Tom were last, pretty evenly matched, with Ham the hindermost because he was trying to keep thorns from tearing his clothes.

At first, the two sides seemed evenly matched, but then the Ironheads began to give way.

With transceivers nestled in evenly spaced niches chiseled into the ice, the jammer field buzzed.

Something crunched underfoot and Dean noticed the kibble spread evenly over the floor.

Bertha Kircher laughed as evenly and with as little hysteria as though she were moved by the small talk of an afternoon tea.