Laydown vs Equal - What's the difference?
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(usually, uncountable) The act of laying something down
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(publishing) A physical mockup or layout of a page design
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(military) A pattern of deployment
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, passage=The offense could contrive a variety of laydowns to intensify the defense's problems.}}
(bridge) A hand which is so strong that the declarer can simply expose it and claim the number of tricks required by his or her contract
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(fishing) A tree fallen in water, where anglers might target fish
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(label) The same in all respects.
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Exactly identical, having the same value.
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(label) Fair, impartial.
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* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
(label) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
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* (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
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(informal) To have as its consequence.
A person or thing of equal status to others.
* Addison
(obsolete) State of being equal; equality.
As nouns the difference between laydown and equal
is that laydown is (usually|uncountable) the act of laying something down while equal is a person or thing of equal status to others.As an adjective equal is
(label) the same in all respects.As a verb equal is
(mathematics) to be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.laydown
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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.
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