evenly
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 6
/ˈiːvənli/
Definition of evenly
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adv
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So as to form a flat surface.
“Spread the icing evenly over the cake.”
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adv
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So as to form a flat surface.
“Spread the icing evenly over the cake.”
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In a fair manner of distribution, giving the same amount or number to each; equally.
“To avoid arguments, he divided the sweets evenly between his two children.”
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In a manner that leaves no remainder.
“12 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6.”
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In terms of or by means of even numbers.
“The oddly counted lords are always out of sync with at least one other evenly counted cycle. These two strange counts assured that at no single moment could all cycles end at the same time for an extraordinarily long time, for at least one odd count threw off all the even ones.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English evenly, evenliche, from Old English efenlīċe (“evenly, alike, equally”), equivalent to even + -ly.
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