Definitions for equate

equate e·quate

Spelling: [ih-kweyt]
IPA: /ɪˈkweɪt/

Equate is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in equate (aeeqtu).

Definitions for equate

verb (used with object)

  1. to regard, treat, or represent as equivalent:
  2. to state the equality of or between; put in the form of an equation:
  3. to reduce to an average; make such correction or allowance in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison.

Origin of equate

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin aequātus (past participle of aequāre to make equal), equivalent to aequ(us) equal + -ātus Examples for equate

One could not equate human ethics with the ethics of the Cytha.

It may be hard to equate John Kerry now with the same man in 2004 and 1971.

The difficulty for Germany was, how to equate her world-wide ambitions with the restricted and diverse aims of Austria and Italy.

Standard courses in economics talk about the law of demand and supply, where prices are determined to equate the two.

Producers often tend to equate harder-hitting crime stories with a city setting – from Cracker and Prime Suspect to Luther.

Those ships he speaks of equate to jobs at shipyards, the planes to jobs at Boeing/Lockeed/etc.

It takes a strange mentality to equate that with a seriously ill human being.

It is a more serious difficulty that Paul knows of no Longobardic king with a name which we can equate with Sceaf.

No one aware of the dynamics of work and life today can equate the notion of majority with democracy.

"By God, if he should try that—to equate her from Logical into reject—" He gestured helplessly.

Word Value for equate
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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