The difference between Entail and Equal
When used as nouns, entail means an estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue, whereas equal means a person or thing of equal status to others.
When used as verbs, entail means to imply or require, whereas equal means to be equal to, to have the same value as.
Equal is also adjective with the meaning: the same in all respects.
check bellow for the other definitions of Entail and Equal
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Entail as a verb (transitive):
To imply or require.
Examples:
"This activity will entail careful attention to detail."
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Entail as a verb (transitive):
To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.
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Entail as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To appoint hereditary possessor.
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Entail as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
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Entail as a noun:
That which is entailed. Hence: An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue. The rule by which the descent is fixed.
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Entail as a noun (obsolete):
Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
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Equal as an adjective (not comparable):
The same in all respects.
Examples:
"'Equal conditions should produce equal results."
"All men are created equal."
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Equal as an adjective (mathematics, not comparable):
Exactly identical, having the same value.
Examples:
"All right angles are equal."
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Equal as an adjective (obsolete):
Fair, impartial.
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Equal as an adjective (comparable):
Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
Examples:
"This test is pretty tough, but I think I'm equal to it."
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Equal as an adjective (obsolete):
Not variable; equable; uniform; even.
Examples:
"an equal movement"
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Equal as an adjective (music):
Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.
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Equal as a verb (mathematics):
To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.
Examples:
"Two plus two equals four."
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Equal as a verb:
To be equivalent to; to match
Examples:
"David equaled the water level of the bottles, so they now both contain exactly 1 liter."
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Equal as a verb (informal):
To have as its consequence.
Examples:
"Losing this deal equals losing your job."
"Might does not equal right."
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Equal as a noun:
A person or thing of equal status to others.
Examples:
"We're all equals here."
"This beer has no equal."
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Equal as a noun (obsolete):
State of being equal; equality.
Examples:
"rfquotek Spenser"