noun
definition
(diminutive) An even number.
example
So let's see. There are two evens here and three odds.
verb
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To make flat and level.
example
We need to even this playing field; the west goal is too low.
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To equal.
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To be equal.
example
Thrice nine evens twenty seven.
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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.
example
We need to even the score.
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To set right; to complete.
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To act up to; to keep pace with.
adjective
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Flat and level.
example
Clear out those rocks. The surface must be even.
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Without great variation.
example
Despite her fear, she spoke in an even voice.
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Equal in proportion, quantity, size, etc.
example
Call it even.
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(of an integer) Divisible by two.
example
Four, fourteen and forty are even numbers.
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(of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
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On equal monetary terms; neither owing nor being owed.
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On equal terms of a moral sort; quits.
example
You biffed me back at the barn, and I biffed you here—so now we're even.
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Parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit.
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Without an irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure.
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Associate; fellow; of the same condition.
adverb
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Exactly, just, fully.
example
I fulfilled my instructions even as I had promised.
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In reality; implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality.
example
Did you even make it through the front door?
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Emphasizing a comparative.
example
I was strong before, but now I am even stronger.
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Signalling a correction of one's previous utterance; rather, that is.
example
My favorite actor is Jack Nicklaus. Jack Nicholson, even.
Examples of even in a Sentence
Even in sleep he was irresistible.
You always look neat and clean - even if you are a little out of style.
He probably didn't even realize what he said.
Even after my illness I remembered one of the words I had learned in these early months.
When she glanced up at him, even his smile was reassuring.
Do those two things even compare?
He was protective of you before he even met you.
Not even a year had passed since the stabbing, but he had been doing well.
Even Mamma does not understand.
He didn't have computers or even a calculator.
They even agreed to take care of the animals while Alex and Carmen took their first vacation.
The king's enemies are even now advancing, and all are ready for the fight.
I don't even know what I'm doing.
This approach is even more flawed than the first.
Even if we should come to unpleasant places on our way it is necessary, in order to reach the earth's surface, to keep moving on toward it.
It was the most comical shapeless thing, this improvised doll, with no nose, mouth, ears or eyes--nothing that even the imagination of a child could convert into a face.
Hippocrates has even left directions how we should cut our nails; that is, even with the ends of the fingers, neither shorter nor longer.
And now she was even resenting Alex for telling his father.
Even a bird is smart enough to push the fledgling out of the nest when it fails to fly on its own.
I would teach you how to draw pictures of sheep and horses, and even of men, said the stranger.
He wasn't even being recognized for his abilities.
He taught that men ought to be kind even to their enemies.
But even that is not enough.
He made it all sound so innocent - even noble.
You haven't even cried yet.
He quarreled with the other sailors, and even with the captain.
I spend less time waiting for Excel to do a recalculation of my formulas today than I did on my 386 in the 1990s, even though my spreadsheets are thousands of times more complex.
Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels that they may run smoothly.
Vera's remark was correct, as her remarks always were, but, like most of her observations, it made everyone feel uncomfortable, not only Sonya, Nicholas, and Natasha, but even the old countess, who--dreading this love affair which might hinder Nicholas from making a brilliant match-- blushed like a girl.
It was probably the first money, other than the air fares, Señor Medena had been able to spend on Alex - and even then he had to do it through Felipa.
Imagine a thousand new arts, none of which are even invented yet, each with a thousand new great masters.
Even when I studied most earnestly it seemed more like play than work.
Why, you go giddy even on a staircase, exclaimed several voices.
Sometimes he even did it when there was a room full of people between them.
Even as tired as she was, his arms were a welcome haven.
Now even their relationship was beginning to suffer.
The second and even more singular fact was the absence of any inhabitant of this splendid place.
It wouldn't be possible for even me to get up to that crack--or through it if I got there.
Search engines have done a fabulous job tackling this problem, even given the vast, vast, amounts of information added to the Internet every day.
I did not know that I was spelling a word or even that words existed; I was simply making my fingers go in monkey-like imitation.
The illustrative strings and the orange stick representing the poles seemed so real that even to this day the mere mention of temperate zone suggests a series of twine circles; and I believe that if any one should set about it he could convince me that white bears actually climb the North Pole.
In such a neighborhood as this, boards and shingles, lime and bricks, are cheaper and more easily obtained than suitable caves, or whole logs, or bark in sufficient quantities, or even well-tempered clay or flat stones.
If he reports that our losses were great, it is not true; perhaps about four thousand, not more, and not even that; but even were they ten thousand, that's war!
Even so, she had accepted it in her mind to a degree.
Maybe it resurrected memories that were unpleasant - even painful.
I knew you would take the responsibility, even if you didn't want the baby.
However, even if this problem were solved perfectly, it doesn't really end ignorance.
If my mother happened to be near I crept into her arms, too miserable even to remember the cause of the tempest.
Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold.
The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers.