"equalize" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈiːkwəlaɪz/ [UK], /ˈikwəˌlaɪz/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-equalize.wav [Southern-England] Forms: equalizes [present, singular, third-person], equalizing [participle, present], equalized [participle, past], equalized [past]
Etymology: From equal + -ize. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|equal|ize}} equal + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} equalize (third-person singular simple present equalizes, present participle equalizing, simple past and past participle equalized)
  1. (transitive) To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree. Tags: transitive Translations (to make equal): изравнявам (izravnjavam) (Bulgarian), igualar (Catalan), tasata (Finnish), tasapuolistaa (Finnish), tasa-arvoistaa (Finnish), égaliser (French), igualar (Galician), igar (Galician), ausgleichen (German), kiegyenlít (Hungarian), egyensúlyba hoz (Hungarian), egalizál (Hungarian), egaligar (Ido), uguagliare (Italian), whakaōrite (Maori), hōrite (Maori), igualar (Portuguese), igualar (Spanish), སྙོམ (snyom) (Tibetan), зрівнювати (zrivnjuvaty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), зрівняти (zrivnjaty) [perfective] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-equalize-en-verb-kP1bH33m Categories (other): English terms with collocations, English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 10 8 26 29 16 10 Disambiguation of 'to make equal': 54 21 20 1 3 1
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To be equal to; to equal, to rival. Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-equalize-en-verb-bQmNoCJQ
  3. (intransitive, sports) To make the scoreline equal by scoring points. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Sports
    Sense id: en-equalize-en-verb--Qu2ofui Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 3 31 25 19 12 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 10 8 26 29 16 10 Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
  4. (underwater diving) To clear the ears to balance the pressure in the middle ear with the outside pressure by letting air enter along the Eustachian tubes. Categories (topical): Underwater diving Translations (to clear the ears): изравнявам (izravnjavam) (Bulgarian), den Druck im Ohr ausgleichen (German), compensare (Italian)
    Sense id: en-equalize-en-verb-~NQSLb1H Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 10 8 26 29 16 10 Topics: diving, hobbies, lifestyle, sports, underwater-diving Disambiguation of 'to clear the ears': 6 6 6 79 2 2
  5. (category theory) Said of a morphism: to pre-compose with each of a parallel pair of morphisms so as to yield the same composite morphism. Categories (topical): Category theory
    Sense id: en-equalize-en-verb-s5j7YmYw Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 10 8 26 29 16 10 Topics: category-theory, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  6. (signal processing) To adjust the balance between frequency components within an electronic signal. Categories (topical): Signal processing
    Sense id: en-equalize-en-verb-B0q63Q2K Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 10 8 26 29 16 10 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, signal-processing
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: equalise (english: non-Oxford British spelling), æqualize [obsolete] Derived forms: equalizer, equaliser, equalization, equalisation Translations (to make the score equal): изравнявам (izravnjavam) (Bulgarian), 均等化 (jūnděnghuà) (Chinese Mandarin), 等化 (děnghuà) (Chinese Mandarin), 平等化 (píngděnghuà) (Chinese Mandarin), tasoittaa (Finnish), yhtäläistää (Finnish), yhdenmukaistaa (Finnish), tasapäistää (Finnish), égaliser (French), ausgleichen (German), השווה (hishvá) (Hebrew), egyenlít (Hungarian), kiegyenlít (Hungarian), uguagliare (Italian), 平等にする (byōdō ni suru) (alt: びょうどうにする) (Japanese), wekhev kirin (Northern Kurdish), igualar (Portuguese), выра́внивать (vyrávnivatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), вы́ровнять (výrovnjatʹ) [perfective] (Russian), empatar (Spanish), igualar (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'to make the score equal': 36 26 30 2 4 2

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms suffixed with -ize",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
  ],
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    {
      "word": "equalizer"
    },
    {
      "word": "equaliser"
    },
    {
      "word": "equalization"
    },
    {
      "word": "equalisation"
    }
  ],
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "equal",
        "3": "ize"
      },
      "expansion": "equal + -ize",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From equal + -ize.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "equalizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "equalizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "equalized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "equalized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with collocations",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1815, William Wordsworth, Epitaph 3",
          "text": "One poor moment can suffice / To equalize the lofty and the low.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1828, Richard Whately, Elements of Rhetoric",
          "text": "No system of instruction will completely equalize natural powers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be equal to; to equal, to rival."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "equal",
          "equal"
        ],
        [
          "rival",
          "rival"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, transitive) To be equal to; to equal, to rival."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "en:Sports"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make the scoreline equal by scoring points."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ],
        [
          "equal",
          "equal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, sports) To make the scoreline equal by scoring points."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Underwater diving"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To clear the ears to balance the pressure in the middle ear with the outside pressure by letting air enter along the Eustachian tubes."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "underwater",
          "underwater"
        ],
        [
          "diving",
          "diving#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(underwater diving) To clear the ears to balance the pressure in the middle ear with the outside pressure by letting air enter along the Eustachian tubes."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "diving",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports",
        "underwater-diving"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Category theory"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Said of a morphism: to pre-compose with each of a parallel pair of morphisms so as to yield the same composite morphism."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "category theory",
          "category theory"
        ],
        [
          "morphism",
          "morphism"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(category theory) Said of a morphism: to pre-compose with each of a parallel pair of morphisms so as to yield the same composite morphism."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "category-theory",
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Signal processing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, The Shock and Vibration Bulletin - Volume 57, Parts 1-4, page 35",
          "text": "The technique for frequency slewing of a transient is different from that for vibration testing in that it is necessary to equalize at low level as the clock frequency is slewed in relatively small increments from the nominal to the desired frequency.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To adjust the balance between frequency components within an electronic signal."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(signal processing) To adjust the balance between frequency components within an electronic signal."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences",
        "signal-processing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈiːkwəlaɪz/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈikwəˌlaɪz/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "non-Oxford British spelling",
      "word": "equalise"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "æqualize"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "izravnjavam",
      "sense": "to make equal",
      "word": "изравнявам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to make equal",
      "word": "igualar"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to make equal",
      "word": "tasata"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to make equal",
      "word": "tasapuolistaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to make equal",
      "word": "tasa-arvoistaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to make equal",
      "word": "égaliser"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to make equal",
      "word": "igualar"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to make equal",
      "word": "igar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to make equal",
      "word": "ausgleichen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to make equal",
      "word": "kiegyenlít"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to make equal",
      "word": "egyensúlyba hoz"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to make equal",
      "word": "egalizál"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "to make equal",
      "word": "egaligar"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to make equal",
      "word": "uguagliare"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to make equal",
      "word": "whakaōrite"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to make equal",
      "word": "hōrite"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to make equal",
      "word": "igualar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to make equal",
      "word": "igualar"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "snyom",
      "sense": "to make equal",
      "word": "སྙོམ"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zrivnjuvaty",
      "sense": "to make equal",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "зрівнювати"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zrivnjaty",
      "sense": "to make equal",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "зрівняти"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "izravnjavam",
      "sense": "to make the score equal",
      "word": "изравнявам"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jūnděnghuà",
      "sense": "to make the score equal",
      "word": "均等化"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "děnghuà",
      "sense": "to make the score equal",
      "word": "等化"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "píngděnghuà",
      "sense": "to make the score equal",
      "word": "平等化"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to make the score equal",
      "word": "tasoittaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to make the score equal",
      "word": "yhtäläistää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to make the score equal",
      "word": "yhdenmukaistaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to make the score equal",
      "word": "tasapäistää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to make the score equal",
      "word": "égaliser"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to make the score equal",
      "word": "ausgleichen"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "hishvá",
      "sense": "to make the score equal",
      "word": "השווה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to make the score equal",
      "word": "egyenlít"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to make the score equal",
      "word": "kiegyenlít"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to make the score equal",
      "word": "uguagliare"
    },
    {
      "alt": "びょうどうにする",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "byōdō ni suru",
      "sense": "to make the score equal",
      "word": "平等にする"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "to make the score equal",
      "word": "wekhev kirin"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to make the score equal",
      "word": "igualar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vyrávnivatʹ",
      "sense": "to make the score equal",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "выра́внивать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "výrovnjatʹ",
      "sense": "to make the score equal",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "вы́ровнять"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to make the score equal",
      "word": "empatar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to make the score equal",
      "word": "igualar"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "izravnjavam",
      "sense": "to clear the ears",
      "word": "изравнявам"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to clear the ears",
      "word": "den Druck im Ohr ausgleichen"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to clear the ears",
      "word": "compensare"
    }
  ],
  "word": "equalize"
}

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