单词 | equate |
释义 | † equateadj. 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.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. 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.. |
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