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Equal vs Lout - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between equal and lout

is that equal is (mathematics) to be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to while lout is (obsolete|transitive) to treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint or lout can be (archaic) to bend, bow, stoop.

As nouns the difference between equal and lout

is that equal is a person or thing of equal status to others while lout is a troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.

As an adjective equal

is (label) the same in all respects.

equal

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic) * (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (label) The same in all respects.
  • * (1671-1743)
    • They who are not disposed to receive them may let them alone or reject them; it is equal to me.
  • Exactly identical, having the same value.
  • *
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  • (label) Fair, impartial.
  • * 1644 , (John Milton), (Aeropagitica) :
    • it could not but much redound to the lustre of your milde and equall Government, when as private persons are hereby animated to thinke ye better pleas'd with publick advice, then other statists have been delighted heretofore with publicke flattery.
  • * Bible, (w) xviii. 29
    • Are not my ways equal ?
  • * (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
    • Thee, O Jove, no equal judge I deem.
  • (label) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
  • * 1881 , (Jane Austen), , p. 311
    • her comprehension was certainly more equal to the covert meaning, the superior intelligence, of those five letters so arranged.
  • * (1609-1674)
    • The Scots trusted not their own numbers as equal to fight with the English.
  • * (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
    • It is not permitted to me to make my commendations equal to your merit.
  • * (Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1803-1882)
    • whose voice an equal messenger / Conveyed thy meaning mild.
  • (label) Not variable; equable; uniform; even.
  • * (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
    • an equal temper
  • (label) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.

    • Usage notes

    *

    Synonyms

    * (the same in all respects) identical * (exactly identical) equivalent, identical * (unvarying) even, fair, uniform, unvarying

    Verb

  • (mathematics) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.
    • Two plus two equals four.
  • To be equivalent to; to match
  • * 2004 , Mary Levy and Jim Kelly, Marv Levy: Where Else Would You Rather Be?
    • There was an even more remarkable attendance figure that underscores the devotion exhibited by our fans, because it was in 1991 that they set a single season in-stadium attendance record that has never been equaled .
  • (informal) To have as its consequence.
    • Losing this deal equals losing your job.
    Might does not equal right.

    Synonyms

    * (to be equal to) be, is * (sense) entail, imply, lead to, mean, result in, spell

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person or thing of equal status to others.
    • We're all equals here.
    This beer has no equal .
  • * Addison
    • Those who were once his equals envy and defame him.
  • (obsolete) State of being equal; equality.
    • (Spenser)

    Synonyms

    * (person or thing of equal status to others) peer

    Derived terms

    * equally * equalize/equalise * unequal * equal temperament

    Related terms

    * equality

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    lout

    English

    Etymology 1

    Of dialectal origin, compare Middle English louten'' "to bow, bend low, stoop over" from Old English ''l?tan from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.
  • *
  • *:But the lout looked only to his market, and was not easily repulsed. ¶ "He's there, I tell you," he persisted. "And for threepence I'll get you to see him. Come on, your honour! It's many a Westminster election I've seen, and beer running, from Mr. Fox,when maybe it's your honour's going to stand! Anyway, it's, Down with the mongers!"
  • A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin.
  • :(Sir Philip Sidney)
    • Synonyms
    * See also * yob
    Related terms
    * lager lout

    See also

    * hooligan * thug * yob, yobbo

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) l?tan'', from Germanic. Cognate with Old Norse , Swedish ''luta .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To bend, bow, stoop.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i:
    • He faire the knight saluted, louting low, / Who faire him quited, as that courteous was [...].
  • * 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , vol. 1:
    • He took the cup in his hand and, louting low, returned his best thanks [...].

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