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Crossbar vs Evener - What's the difference?

crossbar | evener |

As nouns the difference between crossbar and evener

is that crossbar is any transverse bar or piece, such as a bar across a door, or the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor while evener is one who, or that which, makes even.

As an adjective evener is

(even).

crossbar

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any transverse bar or piece, such as a bar across a door, or the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor.
  • (sports) The top of the goal structure.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 22 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Liverpool 0-1 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The effervescent Suarez then went close again as he worked space for a shot after a mazy run but could not keep his close-range shot below the crossbar .}}
  • The top tube of a bicycle frame.

    • Synonyms

    (sports sense) bar

    Derived terms

    * crossbar shot * crossbar switch

    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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