The difference between Even and Evening
When used as nouns, even means an , whereas evening means the time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark.
Even is also adverb with the meaning: exactly, just, fully.
Even is also verb with the meaning: to make flat and level.
Even is also adjective with the meaning: flat and level.
check bellow for the other definitions of Even and Evening
-
Even as an adjective:
Flat and level.
Examples:
"Clear out those rocks. The surface must be even."
-
Even as an adjective:
Without great variation.
Examples:
"Despite her fear, she spoke in an even voice."
-
Even as an adjective:
Equal in proportion, quantity, size, etc.
Examples:
"The distribution of food must be even."
-
Even as an adjective (not comparable, of an integer):
Divisible by two.
Examples:
"Four, fourteen and forty are even numbers."
-
Even as an adjective (of a number):
Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
-
Even as an adjective:
On equal monetary terms; neither owing nor being owed.
-
Even as an adjective (colloquial):
On equal terms of a moral sort; quits.
Examples:
"You biffed me back at the barn, and I biffed you here—so now we're even."
-
Even as an adjective:
parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit.
-
Even as an adjective (obsolete):
Without an irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure.
-
Even as an adjective (obsolete):
Associate; fellow; of the same condition.
-
Even as a verb (transitive):
To make flat and level.
Examples:
"We need to even this playing field; the west goal is too low."
-
Even as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To equal.
-
Even as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):
To be equal.
Examples:
"Thrice nine evens twenty seven."
"rfquotek R. Carew"
-
Even as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To place in an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is due on either side; to balance, as accounts; to make quits.
-
Even as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To set right; to complete.
-
Even as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To act up to; to keep pace with.
-
Even as an adverb (archaic):
Exactly, just, fully.
Examples:
"I fulfilled my instructions even as I had promised."
"You are leaving tonight? — Even so."
"This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you."
-
Even as an adverb:
Examples:
"'Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes."
"Did you even make it through the front door?"
"That was before I was even born."
-
Even as an adverb:
Examples:
"I was strong before, but now I am even stronger."
-
Even as an adverb:
; rather, that is.
Examples:
"My favorite actor is Jack Nicklaus. Jack Nicholson, even."
-
Even as an adverb:
also
-
Even as a noun:
An .
Examples:
"So let's see. There are two evens here and three odds."
-
Even as a noun (archaic, or, poetic):
Evening.
-
Evening as a noun:
The time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark.
-
Evening as a noun:
The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours.
-
Evening as a noun (figuratively):
A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something.
Examples:
"It was the evening of the Roman Empire."
-
Evening as a noun:
A party or gathering held in the evening.
-
Evening as a verb:
-
Evening as a verb: