Evenly

Definition: Evenly

Evenly

Adverb

1. In equal amounts or shares; in a balanced or impartial way; "a class evenly divided between girls and boys"; "they split their winnings equally"; "deal equally with rich and poor".

2. In a level and regular way.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "evenly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonym: Evenly

Crosswords: Evenly

Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed. (references; author: unknown)

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The Greenhill/East Timbalier dredge deposition -- backhoe is used to move pipe to evenly distribute the dredge material. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Evenly spaced tern eggs on Helens Reef Island nesting ground. Credit: Small World.

Firing her 5"/38 guns at a target drone aircraft, during exercises, 21 August 1964. The ship following next astern is USS Porterfield (DD-682). The relative positions of Wedderburn's signal flags, with the port side red "Bravo" flag hoisted higher, indicate that the ship is firing to port. Evenly hoisted flags on Porterfield indicate that her guns are not yet trained out. Photographed by PH2 R.D. Fennell. Credit: NAVY.

Spanish-American woman covering dough so that shaped loaves will rise evenly. Near Taos, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Now the dust was evenly mixed with the air, an emulsion of dust and air.

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Health

The laser makes 50-100 evenly spaced burns. (references)

The level of caries incidence, however, is not evenly distributed in the population. (references)

Blood sugars will be easier to keep in the normal range if meal times and amounts (total calories) are evenly spaced. (references)

Business

Packaging requirements apply evenly to both domestic and imported beers. (references)

The most frequent readers are people between 65 and 79 evenly divided between men and women. (references)

To a far greater degree than its European neighbors, Germany's population and industry are decentralized and evenly distributed. (references)

Children

Uganda

Recent statistics indicate a decline from 84 percent in 1997 to 76.5 percent in 2000; however, since the implementation of UPE, primary school enrollment has increased from 2.9 million in 1996 to 6.8 million in 2000. Girls and boys theoretically have equal access to education, and lower grades are divided almost evenly by sex; however, the proportion of girls in higher school grades remains low since families traditionally have favored boys when making financially related educational decisions. (references)

Economic History

Dominican Republic

Presidential elections are held in years evenly divisible by four. (references)

Madagascar

About 45% of the Malagasy are Christian, divided almost evenly between Roman Catholic and Protestant. (references)

Political Rights

Trinidad and Tobago

General elections held on December 10 resulted in an evenly divided Parliament, with both major parties winning 18 seats. (references)

Trade

Turkey

Moreover, accounting practices are neither at commonly accepted international GAAP standards or evenly applied across the sector. (references)

Women

Oman

Government grants for study abroad generally are divided evenly between men and women. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "evenly": evenly matched ♦ share evenly. Additional references.

Beginning with "evenly": evenly-balanced, evenly-based, evenly-divided, evenly-matched, evenly-shaped, evenly-spaced.

Albanian

rregullisht (ordinarily, regularly), qetë (easy, quietly, undisturbedly), barabar (equally, even, fifty fifty, indifferently, level). (various references)

Arabic 

‏بهدوء (easy, placidly, play cool, quietly, slow, softly), ‏بغير تحيز, ‏بالتساوى, ‏بالعدل, ‏بإعتدال (middling, moderately, reasonably, sparingly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

спокойно (calmly, easy, gently, leisurely, quiet, quietly, smooth), равно (equally, even, flatly, levelly), гладко (fluently, levelly, smooth, without a hitch). (various references)

Chinese 

勻 (even, uniform). (various references)

Czech

stejnì (alike, anyhow, anyway, as it is, ditto, equally, even so, in the same way, just the same, though). (various references)

Danish

ensartet sprøjtning (evenly distributed cover, evenly distributed spray, uniform distribution pattern), slots med lige stor indbyrdes afstand (evenly spaced slots), opvarmningen til haerdetemperaturen sker i almindelighed i trin for at faa en saa ensartet og spaendingsfri gennemvarmning som muligt af dette staal med lav varmeledningsevne,og for at opnaa en saa regelmaessig oploesning som muligt af de tungtoploeselige (and to dissolve the alloy carbides, heating to the quenching temperature is normally carried out in steps, in order to heat the steel evenly without stress, which dissolve only slowly in this steel which has a low thermal conductivity), jaevnt fordelt ekspositionsluft (evenly distributed exposure atmosphere), jævnt fordelt sprøjtning (evenly distributed cover, evenly distributed spray, uniform distribution pattern), i tilfaelde af vandindsproejtning i ringe maengde og stor dybde tilfoeres det daglige vandvolumen uden tryk i kulbaenken igennem borehuller, som er anbragt med regelmaessige mellemrum langs hele brydningsfronten (the water introduced daily is spread evenly between the holes right the way along the face), homogen sprøjtning (evenly distributed cover, evenly distributed spray, uniform distribution pattern). (various references)

Dutch

zowel bij toepassing van waterinjectie door middel van ondiepe als diepe boorgaten wordt het onder druk toegevoerde water geinjecteerd via op gelijkmatige afstanden in de laag verdeelde boorgaten (the water introduced daily is spread evenly between the holes right the way along the face), verwarmen tot de hardingstemperatuur wordt in het algemeen in stappen uitgevoerd om zodoende het materiaal gelijkmatig te verwarmen zodat geen inwendige spanningen optreden en de legeringscarbiden niet oplossen;in dit type staal lossen deze laatste slecht (and to dissolve the alloy carbides, heating to the quenching temperature is normally carried out in steps, in order to heat the steel evenly without stress, which dissolve only slowly in this steel which has a low thermal conductivity), tijdsleuven op gelijke afstand van elkaar (evenly spaced slots), sleuven op gelijke afstand van elkaar (evenly spaced slots), lineaire spreiding van de afvloeiingen over het gehele jaar (evenly spread of departures over the year), homogeen spuitpatroon (evenly distributed cover, evenly distributed spray, uniform distribution pattern), gelijke verdeling in de lucht (evenly distributed exposure atmosphere). (various references)

Finnish

tasan (equally, even, exactly, just), tasaisesti (smoothly). (various references)

French

uniformément, sereine, de manière égale, de façon égale, calmement, également. (various references)

German

ausgeglichene. (various references)

Greek 

εξ ίσου (equally). (various references)

Hungarian

egyformán (alike, equally). (various references)

Indonesian

samarata (distributed evenly), merata (be spread evenly, prevalent, smooth). (various references)

Italian

ugualmente (alike, all the same, equally, just the same, likewise, the like). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

等しく (equally). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひとしく (equally). (various references)

Korean 

동등하게 (Equivalently). (various references)

Manx

dy rea (soft, steadily), dy corrym (adequately, equally, fair, steadily). (various references)

Pig Latin

evenlyay.(various references)

Portuguese

equilibradamente, uniformemente, imparcialmente, calmamente (calmly, leisurely, quietly, stilly, undisturbedly). (various references)

Romanian

egal (coequal, commensurate, coordinate, equal, equally, even, even tempered, fellow, identic, identical, level, match, peer, proportionate, regular, smooth, Square, unchangeable, uniform), neted (clear, even, flat, flush, lank, level ground, plain, plane, polished, sleek, slick, smooth, smooth-faced, smoothly), drept (as, attribution, claim, correct, Dexter, direct, directly, due, end on, endways, equitable, erect, even, exactly, fair, fairly, for, forthright, honest, just, justice, justly, kind, law, legitimate, patent, permission, plain, point blank, precisely, privilege, real, reasonable, right, right foot, right leg, righteous, Square, stand, stand up, straight, straightforward, true, truly, truthful, unprejudiced, upright). (various references)

Russian 

равномерно. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

jednako (alike, equally, even). (various references)

Spanish

igualmente (alike, equally, likewise, the same to you). (various references)

Swedish

jämnt (equally, fifty fifty, level, smooth). (various references)

Thai

อย่างเท่าเทียม. (various references)

Turkish

eşit olarak (equally, on an equality with), yatay olarak (point blank), tam olarak (accurately, completely, every bit, exactly, fairly, flat, fully, implicitly, in depth, in full, Plumb, positively, quite, right, rightdown, rootedly, roundly, slap bang, smack, straight, strictly, to a t, true), hizalı olarak, düz bir şekilde, başabaş olarak. (various references)

Ukrainian

спокійно (at ease, calmly, easy, leisurely, peacefully, quietly, serenely, smooth, with abandon), гладко (flat, smooth, smoothly, swimmingly), однаково (alike, equally), порівну (all, equally). (various references)

Vietnamese 

bằng phẳng ngang nhau, bằng nhau đều công bằng. (various references)

aequaliter, constanter. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "evenly": unevenly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Evenly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adenyl, eavenly, eency, Eeney, eeny, evelyn, Evenley, Everley, Evgeniya, Evgenny, Ewenny, hevenly, venly, Yevgeniy. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: eely, envy, even, eyen, eyne, levy, neve.

-3 letters: eel, eve, eye, lee, lev, ley, lye, nee, vee, yen.

-4 letters: el, en, ne, ye.

+2 letters: heavenly, unevenly.

+3 letters: evidently, fervently, inversely, liverymen, pensively, relevancy, veeringly, venerably.

+4 letters: conversely, eventfully, eventually, lenitively, negatively, relevantly, replevying, reverently, vehemently, vengefully, vinylidene.

+5 letters: advertently, attentively, deceivingly, defensively, deliveryman, deliverymen, divergently, equivalency, eventuality, expansively, expensively, extensively, inceptively, intensively, intervalley, invectively, inventively, irrelevancy, nervelessly, nondelivery, offensively, ostensively, overanalyze, polyvalence, prevalently, retentively, revealingly, sensitively, sovereignly, tentatively, vinylidenes.