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Abreast vs Evener - What's the difference?

abreast | evener |

As adjectives the difference between abreast and evener

is that abreast is side by side, facing forward while evener is (even).

As an adverb abreast

is side by side, facing forward .

As a preposition abreast

is abreast of; alongside.

As a noun evener is

one who, or that which, makes even.

abreast

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • Side by side, facing forward.
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  • (figurative) Alongside; parallel to.
  • Informed, well-informed, familiar, acquainted.
  • Up to a certain level or line; equally advanced; as, to keep abreast of [or with] the present state of science.
  • (nautical) Side by side; also, opposite; over against; on a line with the vessel's beam.
  • (obsolete): At the same time; simultaneously
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    • Usage notes

    * (nautical) Abreast is followed by the word of . * (alongside) Abreast is followed by with' or ' of . * (informed) Abreast is followed by with' or ' of . * (up to a certain level) Abreast is followed by with' or ' of .

    Synonyms

    * (informed)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Side by side, facing forward.
  • (figurative) Alongside; parallel to.
  • Informed, well-informed, familiar, acquainted.
  • Up to a certain level or line; equally advanced; as, to keep abreast of [or with] the present state of science.
  • (nautical) Side by side; also, opposite; over against; on a line with the vessel's beam.

    • Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Abreast of; alongside.
    • This ship sank abreast the island.

    References

    Anagrams

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    evener

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (even)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1853, author=Samuel Strickland, title=Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I prefer the white pine, because it is less liable to gutter with the rain, and makes an evener roof. }}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, makes even.
  • * 1966 , Wilfred Healey Stone, The Cave and the Mountain: A Study of E. M. Forster (page 254)
    • Hers is not simply a plea for the value of tragedy, for that awareness of death which increases incentives for life; it is rather a negative use of death as the great leveler, the evener of scores.
  • (dated) In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast.

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