Equal

Definition

equal /'i:kwǝl/ adj ၁။ ~ (to sb/sth) တူေသာ။ ညီမွ်ေသာ။ They are of equal height. ❍ Equal amounts of flour and sugar should be added to the mixture. ❍ An area of forest equal to the size of Wales has been destroyed. ❍ In intelligence, the children are about equal (to each other). ❍ He speaks Arabic and English with equal fluency. ❍ Women are demanding equal pay for equal work (ie equal to that of men). ❍ equal rights/treatment ❍ an equal opportunities programme (ie giving the same opportunity for employment to any person, regardless of sex, race, etc). ၂။ ~ to sth သင့္ေတာ္ [ေသာ]။ စြမ္းေဆာင္ႏိုင္ [ေသာ]။ She doesn't feel equal to the task. ❍ He proved equal to (ie able to deal with) the occasion. n တန္းတူရည္တူ။ She's the equal of her brother as far as intelligence is concerned. ❍ Our products are the equal of those produced anywhere in the world. ❍ He treats the people who work for him as his equals. v ( -ll- ; US -l- ) ၁။ (ကိန္းခ်င္း) ညီမွ်သည္။ x plus y equals z (ie x + y = z). ၂။ ~ sb/sth (as/in sth) တန္းတူသည္။ ယွဥ္ႏိုင္သည္။ equal the world record ❍ My shock was only equalled by my disgust. ❍ Nobody else can equal him in ability. ❍ Few politicians can equal her as a public speaker. ❏ equality /i'kwɒlǝti/ n [U] တန္းတူမႈ။ တူညီမႈ။ ညီမွ်မႈ။ equality of opportunity ❍ greater equality in health care ❍ a campaign for racial equality. ❏ equalize , -ise /'i:kwǝlaÇz/ v ၁။ အညီအမွ်ျဖစ္ေစသည္။ ညိႇသည္။ ညီလာသည္။ a policy to equalize the distribution of resources throughout the country. ၂။ (ေဘာလံုးပြဲ) ဂိုးခ်င္းညီသြားသည္။ Germany equalized ten minutes later. equalization , -isation /i:kwǝlaÇ'zeÇʃn; US -lǝ'z-/ n [U] ❏ equalizer , -iser n (usu sing ) ႏွစ္ဖက္အသင္း ရဂိုးခ်င္း ညီသြားေစေသာ သြင္းဂိုး။ Chapman scored the equalizer for Liverpool. ❏ equally /'i:kwǝli/ adv ၁။ (က) အညီအမွ်။ အတူတူ။ They are equally clever. ❍ Both aspects are equally important. (ခ) တန္းတူညီမွ်။ သာေစနာေစမရိွဘဲ။ ေက်ာသား ရင္သားမခြဲျခားဘဲ။ treat every member of staff equally. ၂။ ညီတူညီမွ်။ The money was equally divided among her four children. ❍ They share the housework equally between them. ၃။ အလားတူ။ We must try to think about what is best for him; equally, we must consider what he himself wants to do. ❏ on equal terms (with sb) [ IDM ] တန္းတူရည္တူ။ သာတူညီမွ်ျဖစ္ေသာ။ be able to trade on equal terms with overseas companies.

Examples

1. All the workers have an equal share in the profits.
2. [of equal value/size/quality etc] : His wife was doing work of equal importance.
3. [equal in value/size/quality etc] : An extension
4. equal in height to the main building
5. was added later.
6. [equal to] : They receive an income equal to the value of the goods they produce.
7. [roughly/approximately equal] : Roughly equal numbers of men and women enrol each year.
8. He believed that all men and women were equal.
9. They are equal partners in every aspect of their lives.
10. Men and women should receive equal pay for equal work.
11. Everyone should have equal access to healthcare services.
12. [equal rights] : He supported equal rights for all citizens.