Equalizes vs Equalizer - What's the difference?
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(equalize)
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.
One who makes equal; a balancer.
(label) A goal, run, point, etc. that equalizes the score.
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As a verb equalizes
is third-person singular of equalize.As a noun equalizer is
one who makes equal; a balancer.equalizes
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Verb
(head)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
Derived terms
* equalizer, equaliser * equalization, equalisationequalizer
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Alternative forms
* equaliserNoun
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