Neutral vs Equal - What's the difference?
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Not taking sides in a conflict such as war; nonaligned.
Favouring neither the supporting nor opposing viewpoint of a topic of debate; unbiased.
* Shaftesbury
(grammar) Neither positive nor negative.
Neither beneficial nor harmful.
* Sir J. Davies
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, title= (biology) Having no sex; neuter.
Having no obvious colour; gray
(physics) Neither positive nor negative; possessing no charge or equivalent positive and negative charge such that there is no imbalance.
(chemistry) Having a pH near 7, neither acidic nor alkaline.
A nonaligned state, or a member of such a state.
A person who takes no side in a dispute.
An individual or entity serving as an arbitrator or adjudicator (jargon / legal).
A neutral hue.
The position of a set of gears in which power cannot be transmitted to the drive mechanism.
An electrical terminal or conductor which has zero or close to zero voltage with respect to the ground.
(label) The same in all respects.
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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.
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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 adjectives the difference between neutral and equal
is that neutral is not taking sides in a conflict such as war; nonaligned while equal is the same in all respects.As nouns the difference between neutral and equal
is that neutral is a nonaligned state, or a member of such a state while equal is a person or thing of equal status to others.As a verb equal is
to be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.neutral
English
(wikipedia neutral)Adjective
(en adjective)- The heart can not possibly remain neutral , but constantly takes part one way or the other.
- Some things good, and some things ill, do seem, / And neutral some, in her fantastic eye.
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Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----equal
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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.
- (Spenser)