Moses vs Equal - What's the difference?
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The pharaonic patriarch who led the slaved Jews out of Egypt, the brother of Aaron and Miriam described in the Book of Exodus and the Quran.
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* 1952 (w, Singin' in the Rain): Moses supposes (a song):
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A dialect of the Columbia-Wenatchi language
A large flatboat used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship.
(Webster 1913)
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(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) :
* Bible, (w) xviii. 29
* (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.
As nouns the difference between moses and equal
is that moses is a large flatboat used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship while equal is a person or thing of equal status to others.As a proper noun Moses
is the pharaonic patriarch who led the slaved Jews out of Egypt, the brother of Aaron and Miriam described in the Book of Exodus and the Quran.As an adjective equal is
the same in all respects.As a verb equal is
to be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.moses
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses' up to the top of the mount; and ' Moses went up.
- Moses' supposes his toeses are roses, / But '''Moses''' supposes erroneously, / '''Moses''' he knowses his toeses aren't roses, / As ' Moses supposes his toeses to be!
Derived terms
* Moses basketNoun
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)