equate
verb/ɪˈkweɪt/
/ɪˈkweɪt/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they equate | /ɪˈkweɪt/ /ɪˈkweɪt/ |
| he / she / it equates | /ɪˈkweɪts/ /ɪˈkweɪts/ |
| past simple equated | /ɪˈkweɪtɪd/ /ɪˈkweɪtɪd/ |
| past participle equated | /ɪˈkweɪtɪd/ /ɪˈkweɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form equating | /ɪˈkweɪtɪŋ/ /ɪˈkweɪtɪŋ/ |
- equate something (with something) to think that something is the same as something else or is as important
- Some parents equate education with exam success.
- I don't see how you can equate the two things.
Extra Examples- Invention and progress do not necessarily equate with improvement.
- It's hard to equate this gentle woman with the monster portrayed in the newspapers.
- Money cannot be equated with happiness.
- The constellations in the night sky cannot be directly equated with the heroes of Greek mythology.
- We are taught to equate beauty with success.
- crudely equating happiness with a high income
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- directly
- roughly
- simply
- …
- can
- be difficult to
- be hard to
- …
- with
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘make equal, balance’): from Latin aequat- ‘made level or equal’, from the verb aequare, from aequus ‘even, level, equal’. Current senses date from the mid 19th cent.Definitions on the go
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