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say it: EE-kwuhl
equal is a verb, adjective and noun meaning "be identical or equivalent to". It is pronounced /ˈikwəl/ — EE-kwuhl. It carries 6 recorded senses.
“Nothing can rival cotton for durability”
“Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues”
“Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents”
make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching
“let's equalize the duties among all employees in this office”
“The company matched the discount policy of its competitors”
having the same quantity, value, or measure as another
“on equal terms”
“all men are equal before the law”
having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task
“she had adequate training”
“her training was adequate”
“she was adequate to the job”
“he was equal to the task”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for equal come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.