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Equalize vs Equality - What's the difference?

equalize | equality |

As a verb equalize

is to make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree.

As a noun equality is

the fact of being equal.

equalize

English

Alternative forms

* equalise (non-Oxford British spelling) * (obsolete)

Verb

(equaliz)
  • To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree.
    • to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes
  • * Wordsworth
    • One poor moment can suffice / To equalize the lofty and the low.
  • * Whately
    • No system of instruction will completely equalize natural powers.
  • (obsolete) To be equal to; to equal, to rival.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.9:
    • But a third kingdom yet is to arise / Out of the Trojans scattered ofspring, / That in all glory and great enterprise, / Both first and second Troy shall dare to equalise .
  • * Milton
    • polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms
  • (sports) To make the scoreline equal by scoring points.
  • (underwater diving) To clear the ears to balance the pressure in the middle ear with the outside pressure by letting air enter along the Eustachian tubes.

    • Derived terms

    * equalizer, equaliser * equalization, equalisation

    equality

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The fact of being equal.
  • (uncountable, mathematics) The fact of being equal, of having the same value.
  • (uncountable) The equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences.

    • Synonyms

    * (fact of being equal ): equivalence parity,

    Antonyms

    * (fact of being equal ): difference, inequality * (equal treatment of people ): discrimination, inequality nonequivilence