Word Meanings - EQUALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely

Additional info about word: EQUALIZE

1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely equalize natural powers. Whately. 2. To pronounce equal; to compare as equal. Which we equalize, and perhaps would willingly prefer to the Iliad. Orrery. 3. To be equal to; equal; to match. It could not equalize the hundredth part Of what her eyes have kindled in my heart. Waller. Equalizing bar , a lever connecting two axle boxes, or two springs in a car truck or locomotive, to equalize the pressure on the axles.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EQUALIZE)

• Balance
• Weigh
• poise
• pit
• counterpoise
• counteract
• neutralize
• equalize
• estimate
• redress
• adjust
• Commute
• Alter
• mitigate
• substitute
• exchange
• compensate
• barter
• balance
• modify
• Counterpoise Balance
• Level Plane
• smooth
• roll
• flatten
• raze

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EQUALIZE)

• Over-balance
• aggravate

Related words: (words related to EQUALIZE)

• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• MODIFY
  1. To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms of a contract. 2. To limit or reduce in extent or degree; to moderate; to qualify; to lower.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• FLATTEN
  To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. To flatten a sail , to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel. -- Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders
• PLANE TREE
  See PLANE
• NEUTRALIZE
  To render inert or imperceptible the peculiar affinities of, as a chemical substance; to destroy the effect of; as, to neutralize an acid with a base. 3. To destroy the peculiar or opposite dispositions of; to reduce to a state of indifference
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• ALTERNATING CURRENT
  A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
• ALTERNATION
  Permutation. 3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation. (more info) 1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being
• COUNTERACT
  To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
• ADJUSTIVE
  Tending to adjust.
• EQUALIZER
  One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
• EXCHANGE EDITOR
  An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
• LEVELER
  1. One who, or that which, levels. 2. One who would remove social inequalities or distinctions; a socialist.
• LEVEL
  libella level, water level, a plumb level, dim. of libra pound, measure for liquids, balance, water poise, level. Cf. Librate, 1. A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is
• ALTERNAT
  A usage, among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.
• ALTERATION
  1. The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker. 2. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition. Ere long might perceive
• REDRESSIVE
  Tending to redress. Thomson.
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• SUBALTERNANT
  A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• MISALTER
  To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.
• SEA LEVEL
  The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .
• WELTERWEIGHT
  1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that
• HYDROBIPLANE
  A hydro-aëroplane having two supporting planes.