Knowing vs Equal - What's the difference?
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Possessing knowledge or understanding; intelligent.
* South
Shrewd or showing clever awareness.
Suggestive of private knowledge.
Deliberate
The act or condition of having knowledge.
* 2009 , Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition (page 194)
(label) The same in all respects.
* (1671-1743)
Exactly identical, having the same value.
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(label) Fair, impartial.
* 1644 , (John Milton), (Aeropagitica) :
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* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
(label) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
* 1881 , (Jane Austen), ,
* (1609-1674)
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1803-1882)
(label) Not variable; equable; uniform; even.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
(label) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.
(mathematics) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.
To be equivalent to; to match
* 2004 , Mary Levy and Jim Kelly, Marv Levy: Where Else Would You Rather Be?
(informal) To have as its consequence.
A person or thing of equal status to others.
* Addison
(obsolete) State of being equal; equality.
Knowing is a related term of equal.
As adjectives the difference between knowing and equal
is that knowing is possessing knowledge or understanding; intelligent while equal is (label) the same in all respects.As verbs the difference between knowing and equal
is that knowing is while equal is (mathematics) to be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.As nouns the difference between knowing and equal
is that knowing is the act or condition of having knowledge while equal is a person or thing of equal status to others.knowing
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The knowing and intelligent part of the world.
- a knowing rascal
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* knowinglyNoun
(en noun)- Sensations then, are not perceivings, observings or findings; they are not detectings, scannings or inspectings; they are not apprehendings, cognisings, intuitings or knowings .
equal
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic) * (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- They who are not disposed to receive them may let them alone or reject them; it is equal to me.
- 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.
- Are not my ways equal ?
- Thee, O Jove, no equal judge I deem.
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- her comprehension was certainly more equal to the covert meaning, the superior intelligence, of those five letters so arranged.
- The Scots trusted not their own numbers as equal to fight with the English.
- It is not permitted to me to make my commendations equal to your merit.
- whose voice an equal messenger / Conveyed thy meaning mild.
- an equal temper
Usage notes
*Synonyms
* (the same in all respects) identical * (exactly identical) equivalent, identical * (unvarying) even, fair, uniform, unvaryingVerb
- Two plus two equals four.
- 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 .
- 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, spellNoun
(en noun)- We're all equals here.
- This beer has no equal .
- Those who were once his equals envy and defame him.
- (Spenser)