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Definition of Even up

1. Verb. Adjust for. "Engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"

2. Verb. Even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing.

Definition of Even up

1. Verb. (intransitive) To make even; to make level. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Even Up

even as we speak even chance even function even functions even if even keel even money even odds even off even out

even skipped even so even spacing even steven even though even up (current term) evendown evene evened evener

eveners evenes evenest evenfall evenfalls evenhanded evenhandedly evenhandedness evenhead evenhood

Literary usage of Even up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1860)
"This will give the further notion of even-up-and-down ; which word may be used ... Teacher asks for any common things in shape of an even-up-and-down Пм ' A ..."

2. Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox by Charles James Fox (1853)
"It confirms what appears from many other documents, that even up to 1778, Mr. Fox considered himself, and was considered by others, as unconnected with any ..."

3. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"If any transgression is committed, at once it shows signs. 22. This mund even up to now is powerful—so they say. 23. This mund in former times was a ti\ 24. ..."

4. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1905)
"The defendant here had parted altogether with the [ *547 J interest in the land, and had applied the proceeds, aa he *was entitled to do even up to one day ..."

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