equate
verb
\ i-ˈkwāt
, ˈē-ˌkwāt\
, ˈē-ˌkwāt\
equated;
equating
Definition of equate
b
: to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard or obtain a correct result
2
: to treat, represent, or regard as equal, equivalent, or comparable
equates disagreement with disloyalty
: to correspond as equal
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Examples of equate in a Sentence
You shouldn't equate those two things.
a value system that equates money with success
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But Justice waved off any suggestion of selling his businesses, equating that with shuttering them. — Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica, "Welcome to the Greenbrier, the Governor-Owned Luxury Resort Filled With Conflicts of Interest," 15 Aug. 2019 As a probate court judge who helped build a mental-health docket frequently cited as a national model, Kazen also is sensitive to the way in which some politicians unfairly equate mental illness with violent behavior. — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, "Texas lawmakers should close 2013 gun loophole," 10 Aug. 2019 Out of 73 people infected in the United States between 2009 and 2018, 30 died of the virus, which equates to a 40 percent mortality rate. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "Rare, Mosquito-Borne Virus Found in Several Chickens in Florida," 1 Aug. 2019 But Kagame and his lieutenants have succeeded in framing any acknowledgment of their own crimes as a further martyring of their ethnic community, equating the denunciation of crimes against humanity with the denial of a genocide. — Maggie Calt, Harper's magazine, "Brutal from the Beginning," 22 July 2019 The report stated that equates to a rate of 39 per 100,000 children ages 1 to 19 in the state, two points more than the rate of 37 recorded in 2010. — nola.com, "Louisiana’s child population drops by 100k over last 3 decades," 17 June 2019 Romper reported that Maddie made about $2,000 per episode, equating to about $400,000 for her six seasons overall. — Mackenzie Dunn, Woman's Day, "Maddie Ziegler's Net Worth Is More Than You'd Expect," 25 May 2019 Certainly, lazy conflations should be avoided—as evidenced by those who equated the United States’ bombing of Milosevic with the United States’s bombing of Hanoi. — Susie Linfield, The New York Review of Books, "Syria’s Torture Photos: Witness to Atrocity," 9 Feb. 2019 The standardized methods involve dragging a 27-foot-wide bottom trawl on the lake bed for 5 minutes at 4 mph, which equates to about a 1-acre sample area. — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Smith: Lake Poygan ice provides a warm greeting to anglers," 6 Jan. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'equate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for equate
equate
verb
English Language Learners Definition of equate
: to say or think that (two things) are equal or the same
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