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[ adverb ] used as an intensive especially to indicate something unexpected
Examples "even an idiot knows that" "declined even to consider the idea" "I don't have even a dollar!" Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)Also , it should be noted that the polytonal freedom of his melodies and harmonic modulations , the brilliant orchestrations , the adroitness for evading the heaviness of figured_bass , the skill in florid counterpoint were not lost in his mature output , even in the spectacular historical dramas of the stage and cinema , where a large , dramatic canvas of sound was required . Nor can anyone be certain that Prokofieff would have done better , or even as well , under different circumstances . That his moods , even in his early years , are those of his people , does him honor , as his music honors those who inspired it . That he mastered every aspect of his medium according_to his own great talents and contemporary judgments , is a good and solid symbol of his people under the tremendous pressures of proclaiming and practising the rigors of a new culture ; and perhaps of even greater significance - his music is strong 20_th Century evidence of the effectiveness of Evolution , based on a broad Traditionalism for the creative art of music . (Norman Kent, "The Watercolor Art of Roy M. Mason"...)But even on these , the palette often takes_over while the shotgun cools_off ! |
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[ adverb ] in spite of; notwithstanding
Examples "even when he is sick, he works" "even with his head start she caught up with him" Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)Every dream , and this is true of a mental_image of any type even though it may be readily interpreted into its equivalent of wakeful thought , is a psychic_phenomenon for which no explanation is available . (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)We leap from event to event - including the formation of the posse - even though the events , in `` reality '' are taking_place not in sequence but simultaneously , and not near each other but at a considerable distance . (Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)The unifying effect of religion is also brought_out in the fact that historically peoples have clung together as more_or_less cohesive cultural units , with religion as the dominant bond , even though spatially dispersed and not politically organized . |
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[ adverb ] to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons
Examples "looked sick and felt even worse" "an even (or still) more interesting problem" "still another problem must be solved" "a yet sadder tale" Used in print (John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)The children looked at each other and sagged their bottoms down even more comfortably than ever . |
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[ adjective ] divisible by two
Used in print (R. P. Jerrard, "Inscribed squares in plane curves"...)For it is clear that the total number of ordinary intersections of C and **f must be even ( otherwise , starting in the interior of C , **f could not finally return to the interior ) , and the center of rotation at t is the argument of the function , not a value . Further , we see by Lemma 2 that the multiplicity of f can only change at a tangent point , and at such a point can only change by an even integer . Thus the multiplicity of **f for a given t must be an even number . The remaining ( incomplete ) components all have an even number of ordinary points at any argument , and are defined only on a proper sub-interval of [ 0 , T ] . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced
Synonyms Examples "even amounts of butter and sugar" "on even terms" "it was a fifty-fifty (or even) split" "had a fifty-fifty (or even) chance" "an even fight" Used in print (A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)What we have left as reasonably comparable are four classes : ( 1 ) body_parts and products , which with a proportionally nearly even representation ( 51 terms out of 253 , 25 out of 100 ) come_out with nearly even ratios ; 2.6 and 2.7 ; ( 2 ) Nature ( 29 terms against 17 ) , ratios 3.3 versus 4.1 ; ( 3 ) adjectives ( 16 , 15 terms ) , ratios 3.9 versus 4.7 ; ( 4 ) verbs ( 9 , 22 terms ) , ratios 4.0 versus 3.4 . What we have left as reasonably comparable are four classes : ( 1 ) body_parts and products , which with a proportionally nearly even representation ( 51 terms out of 253 , 25 out of 100 ) come_out with nearly even ratios ; 2.6 and 2.7 ; ( 2 ) Nature ( 29 terms against 17 ) , ratios 3.3 versus 4.1 ; ( 3 ) adjectives ( 16 , 15 terms ) , ratios 3.9 versus 4.7 ; ( 4 ) verbs ( 9 , 22 terms ) , ratios 4.0 versus 3.4 . (Edwin Booth, Outlaw Town....)`` All_right , Crouch ; we 're on even terms . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with)
Examples "an even application of varnish" "the picture is even with the window" Used in print (St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)The Pirates jumped_off to an 11 - 3 start by May 1 last year , when the Redbirds as_well_as the Dodgers held them even over the season . |
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[ adjective ] symmetrically arranged
Synonyms Examples "even (or regular) features "a regular polygon" Related terms |
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[ adverb ] to the full extent
Examples "loyal even unto death" |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 15851
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[ verb ] make even or more even
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