Equalize vs Equally - What's the difference?
equalize | equally |
To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree.
* Wordsworth
* Whately
(obsolete) To be equal to; to equal, to rival.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.9:
* Milton
(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.
(manner) In an equal manner; in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; without difference; alike; evenly; justly; as, equally taxed, furnished, etc.
(degree) In equal degree or extent; just as.
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(conjunctive) (Used to link two or more coordinate elements)
As a verb equalize
is to make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree.As an adverb equally is
in an equal manner; in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; without difference; alike; evenly; justly; as, equally taxed, furnished, etc.equalize
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Alternative forms
* equalise (non-Oxford British spelling) * (obsolete)Verb
(equaliz)- to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes
- One poor moment can suffice / To equalize the lofty and the low.
- No system of instruction will completely equalize natural powers.
- 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 .
- polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms