Uniform vs Equalize - What's the difference?
uniform | equalize |
Unvarying; all the same.
Consistent; conforming to one standard.
* Hooker
(mathematics) with speed of convergence not depending on choice of function argument; as in uniform continuity, uniform convergence
A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 * F. W. Robertson
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Phonetic equivalent for the letter U in the ICAO spelling alphabet, informally known as the NATO phonetic alphabet.
A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective).
* 1996 , S. J. Rozan, Concourse , Macmillan, ISBN 0-312-95944-3, page 265,
* 2001 , Christine Wiltz, The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld , Da Capo Press, ISBN 0-306-81012-3, page 113,
* 2004 , , Penny Dreadful , MacAdam/Cage Publishing, ISBN 1-931561-81-8, page 81,
To clothe in a uniform.
* {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Robert W. Chambers, title=Ailsa Paige, chapter=, edition=
, passage=You can't erect an army by uniforming and drilling a few hundred thousand clerks and farmers. }}
----
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.
In transitive terms the difference between uniform and equalize
is that uniform is to clothe in a uniform while equalize is to make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree.As an adjective uniform
is unvarying; all the same.As a noun uniform
is a distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group.uniform
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The only doubt is how far churches are bound to be uniform in their ceremonies.
Derived terms
* uniformity * uniformlyNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
- There are many things which a soldier will do in his plain clothes which he scorns to do in his uniform .
Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.
- Skeletor held the gun against Speedo’s head, held Speedo between himself and the cops who stood, motionless and futile, where they’d stopped. Robinson, Lindfors, Carter, three uniforms and I watched helpless as Skeletor, dragging Speedy with him, inched out the gate, started backing down the hill.
- Four men flew out of it, three uniforms and one in what appeared to be an English riding outfit—boots, whip, the whole nine yards. He called out, “I’m the superintendent of police.”
- Eyes to the front now and there was the body, a lump of black and brown. Moon counted three uniforms and a photographer, the medical examiner and his assistant.
Verb
(en verb)citation
equalize
English
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