📚 Equal, adjective.
🔉 /ˈiːkwəl/
🇬🇧 /ˈiːkwəl/
🇺🇸❓ Definition: The same in size, quantity, value, etc. as something else.
❗️ Examples:
1. There is an equal number of boys and girls in the class.
2. Each side will put in an equal amount of money.
3. Cut it into four equal parts.
4.
(equal in something) The two countries are roughly equal in size.
5.
(equal to somebody/something) One unit of alcohol is equal to half a pint of beer.
6. An area of forest equal to the size of Wales has been destroyed.
7. Legislation to put Gaelic on an equal footing with English.
8. The decision has attracted both praise and criticism in equal measure (= to the same degree).
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