请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 equate
释义

equateadj.

Forms: Also equat.
Etymology: < Latin aequātus, past participle of aequāre (see equate v.).
Obsolete.
Equivalent to the later equated adj. at equate v. Derivatives.
a. Astrology.
ΚΠ
1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. vi In houre chosen equat for the nones.
b. Made level, levelled.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > condition of being mean or average > [adjective] > average > reduced to an average
equate1533
equated1633
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) i. 39 At last, baith thir pepill war brocht undir ane communite to leif in Rome, and the ciete Alba equate..to the ground.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. x. xi. f. 142v/2 Neuir to seuer fra this town, quhill the wallis thairof wer equate to ye ground.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

equatev.

/ɪˈkweɪt/
Forms: Also 1600s æquate.
Etymology: < Latin aequāt- participial stem of aequāre : see equate adj.
1. transitive. To make (bodies) equal; to balance. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)]
evenOE
peerc1480
parifyc1487
fellow?a1513
equate1530
coequal1588
adequate1593
equal1594
parallela1616
parallelize1620
equalize1622
coequalize1634
appariate1652
coextend1656
equalify1679
square1815
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 539/1 They were nothyng egall, but he hath nowe equated them.
1755 B. Martin Mag. Arts & Sci. 394 The Guinea and large Piece of Cork..seem not to be nicely equated in Weight.
2.
a. To take the average of. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
14.. Mann. & Househ. Exp. (1841) 439 Mete fyrst how many roddes that one ende is over thwart, and in lyke wyse mete that other ende. Than equate that.
b. Astronomy. To reduce to an average; to make the allowances necessary for bringing observations to a common standard, or for obtaining a correct result.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > condition of being mean or average > average [verb (transitive)] > determine or estimate
equate1633
strike1729
average1831
integrate1864
average1914
1633 T. James Strange Voy. Names Instruments sig. Q2 The Declination was not equated.
1677 R. Cary Palæologia Chronica i. i. i. xii. 44 With some other Epagomenae at the end of the Year, or in a short period of Years fit to equate the Motion of the Sun.
1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) (at cited word) To Equate solar days, that is to convert apparent into mean time, and mean into apparent time.
1833 J. F. W. Herschel Astronomy iv. 174 This last process is technically termed correcting or equating the observation for nutation.
3. Mathematics. To state the equality of (one quantity) to or with (another); to state the equality between (two quantities); to put in the form of an equation.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > algebra > perform algebra [verb (transitive)]
equate1779
expand1802
perturb1901
Fourier-analyse1962
exponentiate1971
1779 Hutton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 70 9 The fluxion of this expression being equated to 0.
1806 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) I. 229 By equating the terms which contain like powers of z.
1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters (ed. 3) I. 301 It is not to be chipped out by the geologist, or equated by the mathematician.
1883 Nature 4 Jan. 225/2 By equating the computed difference to the actual difference.
4. transferred and figurative. To treat, regard, or represent as equivalent.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > compare [verb (transitive)] > equate in value
evenOE
parifyc1487
value1560
equalize1599
equal1607
impale1647
equiparate1671
analogize1801
equate1840
par1878
1840 W. E. Gladstone Church Princ. 399 The danger of confounding true and false by equating them [forms of religion] all.
1859 T. De Quincey Philos. Herodotus (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay IX. 211 Three generations were equated to a century.
1877 W. W. Skeat Langland's Piers Plowman Notes 460 Marlow uses the word ‘chary’ rather artfully, so that it may be equated either to ‘dearly’ or ‘carefully’.
1882 J. Rhŷs Celtic Brit. App. 278 Boudicca might perhaps be equated..with such a Latin name as Victorina.
1885 Church Q. Rev. Oct. 95 In the Book of Leinster thirty four foreign saints are equated with natives.

Derivatives

eˈquated adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > condition of being mean or average > [adjective] > average > reduced to an average
equate1533
equated1633
1633 H. Gellibrand in T. James Voy. R ij The Æquated Anomaly of the ☾ orbe.
1694 E. Halley in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 251 When the æquated Number II. is less than 113.
1790 Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 122 The clock altered to true equated time.
1817 H. T. Colebrooke tr. Brahmagupta in Algebra 312 The mean or equated depth.
1870 F. C. Bowen Logic vi. 160 It makes no difference which of the equated quantities is placed first.
eˈquating n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > algebra > [noun] > expression > equation > reducing to an equation
equating1691
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 338 He divulged his invention of the equating of a streight line to a crooked or parabole.

Draft additions 1993

5. intransitive. To agree or correspond with; (more rarely) to be equivalent to.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree, harmonize, or be congruous with [verb (transitive)]
conspirec1384
accorda1393
to stand with ——c1449
to sit with ——a1500
correspond1545
resound1575
square1583
quader1588
to comport with1591
sympathize1594
beset1597
range1600
even1602
consort1607
to run with ——1614
countenancea1616
hita1616
sympathy1615
filea1625
quadrate?1630
consist1638
commensurate1643
commensure1654
to strike in1704
jig1838
harmonize1852
chime in with1861
equate1934
to tie in1938
to tune in1938
to tie up1958
1934 in N. Webster Dict.
1959 J. D. Clark Prehist. Southern Afr. vii. 169 The Makalian Wet Phase probably equates in time with the warm Atlantic stage in Northern Europe, between c. 5,500 B.C. and c. 2,500 B.C.
1965 E. J. Howard After Julius i. iv. 44 If this equates with being idiotic, that's what I am.
1972 Daily Tel. 14 Sept. 15/2 In England, good design frequently equates with commercial suicide.
1984 Standard 21 Nov. 36/1 (advt.) The annual leave period equates to five weeks.
1985 M. Stott Before I Go viii. 177 Cleanliness does not equate with godliness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
<
adj.1430v.14..
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/24 10:24:20