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e·quate

equate

 
 
pronunciation:
ih kweIt [or] i kweIt
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part of speech: transitive verb
inflections: equates, equating, equated
definition: to make or consider to be equal or equivalent.
Classroom learning is essential, but it cannot be equated with experience on the job.Her parents equate money with success.
similar words:
identify, level
Word Combinations  About this feature
adverb + (v.)equate automatically, erroneously, essentially, explicitly, implicitly, necessarily, roughly, thereby
(v.)equate + adverb approximately
(v.)equate + nounHelp abortion, achievement, acquisition, addiction, atheism, beauty, citizenship, conduct, consciousness, conservatism, culture, danger, decline, democracy, disloyalty, diversity, effectiveness, efficiency, employment, emptiness, engagement, essence, evil, excellence, fantasy, fertility, fitness, freedom, genius, genocide, giftedness, happiness, homosexuality, ignorance, independence, integrity, liberalism, lyric, maladjustment, marriage, membership, mile, morality, nationalism, orthodoxy, ownership, patriotism, poverty, progress, punishment, quality, racism, religion, secularism, slavery, speech, struggle, success, terrorism, trustworthiness, unity, value, virtue, wealth, whiteness, worth [See all][See only the most frequent]
derivations: equatable (adj.), equatability (n.)
Word Parts  About this feature
The word equate contains the following parts:
-ate1 Latin verb-forming suffix that means to make, cause, do
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The suffix -ate primarily forms transitive verbs from Latin bases. Many -ate verbs were loanwords from Latin. Verbs ending in -ate combine with the suffix -ion to form nouns ending in -ation. These verbs also have corresponding agent nouns ending in -ator (navigator, dictator, elevator).