{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ˈivɪn" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/even.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/even.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English even, from Old English efn (“flat; level, even, equal”), from Proto-West Germanic *ebn, from Proto-Germanic *ebnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)em-no- (“equal, straight; flat, level, even”).\nCognate with West Frisian even (“even”), Low German even (“even”), Dutch even (“even, equal, same”), effen, German eben (“even, flat, level”), Danish jævn (“even, flat, smooth”), Swedish jämn (“even, level, smooth”), Icelandic jafn, jamn (“even, equal”), Old Cornish eun (“equal, right”) (attested in Vocabularium Cornicum eun-hinsic (“iustus, i. e., just”)), Old Breton eun (“equal, right”) (attested in Eutychius Glossary eunt (“aequus, i. e., equal”)), Middle Breton effn, Breton eeun, Sanskrit अम्नस् (amnás, “(adverb) just, just now; at once”).\nThe verb descends from Middle English evenen, from Old English efnan; the adverb from Middle English evene, from Old English efne.\nThe traditional proposal connecting the Germanic adjective with the root Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-, (Latin imāgō (“picture, image, likeness, copy”), Latin aemulus (“competitor, rival”), Sanskrit यमस् (yamás, “pair, twin”)) is problematic from a phonological point of view.", "From Middle English even, from Old English ǣfen, from Proto-Germanic *ēbanþs.\nCognate with Dutch avond, Low German Avend, German Abend, Danish aften. See also the related terms eve and evening." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Flat and level.\nClear out those rocks. The surface must be even." }, { "mean": "Without great variation.\nDespite her fear, she spoke in an even voice." }, { "mean": "Equal in proportion, quantity, size, etc.\nThe distribution of food must be even.\nCall it even." }, { "mean": "(not comparable, of an integer) Divisible by two.\nFour, fourteen and forty are even numbers." }, { "mean": "(of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero." }, { "mean": "On equal monetary terms; neither owing nor being owed." }, { "mean": "(colloquial) On equal terms of a moral sort; quits.\nYou biffed me back at the barn, and I biffed you here—so now we're even." }, { "mean": "parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Without an irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Associate; fellow; of the same condition." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To make flat and level.\nWe need to even this playing field; the west goal is too low." }, { "mean": "(transitive, obsolete) To equal or equate; to make the same." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, obsolete) To be equal.\nThrice nine evens twenty seven.\n1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall. , new edition, London: B. Law, ; Penzance, Cornwall: J. Hewett, published 1769, →OCLC:" }, { "mean": "(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.\nWe need to even the score." }, { "mean": "(transitive, obsolete) To set right; to complete." }, { "mean": "(transitive, obsolete) To act up to; to keep pace with." } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(archaic) Exactly, just, fully.\nI fulfilled my instructions even as I had promised.\nYou are leaving tonight? — Even so.\nThis is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you." }, { "mean": "In reality; implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality.\nEven a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.\nDid you even make it through the front door?\nThat was before I was even born." }, { "mean": "Emphasizing a comparative.\nI was strong before, but now I am even stronger." }, { "mean": "Signalling a correction of one's previous utterance; rather, that is.\nMy favorite actor is Jack Nicklaus. Jack Nicholson, even." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(mathematics, diminutive) An even number.\nSo let's see. There are two evens here and three odds." } ] }, { "name": "References", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "^ Schaffner, Stefan (2000). “Altindisch amnás, urgermanisch *eƀna-, kelt. *eμno-.” In: Indoarisch, Iranisch und die Indogermanistik. Akten des Kolloquiums der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 2. bis 5. Oktober 1997 in Erlangen, Forssman, Bernhard Plath, Robert (eds.), Wiesbaden, pp. 491–505. In German." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(archaic or poetic) Evening." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "부사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "레퍼런스", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [ "(flat and level): flat, level, uniform; see also Thesaurus:smooth", "(without great variation): regular, monotone (voice); see also Thesaurus:steady", "(equal): level, on par; see also Thesaurus:equal", "(convenient for rounding): round", "(on equal monetary terms): quits (colloquial, UK)", "(on equal moral terms): quits, square" ], "kor": [ "", "", "", "", "", "" ] } } }