Definitions for equates

equates e·quate

Spelling: [ih-kweyt]
IPA: /ɪˈkweɪt/

Equates is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in equates (aeeqstu).

Definitions for equates

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 equates

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

In part, it seems that big now equates with importance and value.

equates Halloween With ‘Terrorism,’ 2005 Foreign policy is not the only area where Chávez made some wacky comments.

He equates them to the Sicilian Mafia, a criminal group within the population of Sicilians.

At a public hearing, one parent argued that Beloved was given a Lexile rating that equates to a 5th-grade reading level.

These, it seems to me, is what the Left means by “Zionism” and why it equates the term with racism.

Finally, Munayyer equates Palestinian violence with Israeli violence.

It equates someone who decides to tell the world they're voting Meretz with someone who decides to tell the world they're gay.

In the sentence immediately preceding that just quoted he equates the transcendental self with the notion of object in general.

The Daily Pic: Mike Kelley equates insanity and creativity, then negates the equation.

He equates reduced hours to reduced Church attendance and life that exists only on the Internet.

Word Value for equates
Scrable

16

Words with friends

17

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