what does even mean?
EVEN as VERB
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Hypernyms(s) even is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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Hypernyms(s) even is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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Hypernyms(s) even is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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EVEN as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- equal in degree or extent or amount
- or equally matched or balanced
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- 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
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- of the score in a contest
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- 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)
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- an even application of varnish
- an even floor
- the road was not very even
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- occurring at fixed intervals
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- a regular beat
- the even rhythm of his breathing
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- even features
- regular features
- a regular polygon
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EVEN as ADVERB
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- used as an intensive especially to indicate something unexpected
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- even an idiot knows that
- declined even to consider the idea
- I don”t have even a dollar!
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- to a greater degree or extent
- used with comparisons
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- looked sick and felt even worse
- an even (or still) more interesting problem
- still another problem must be solved
- a yet sadder tale
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- in spite of
- notwithstanding
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- even when he is sick, he works
- even with his head start she caught up with him
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