ausgleichen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- accord noun A formal agreement, especially between countries or groups.
- balance noun A state in which opposing weights, forces, or elements are evenly matched; stability.
- compensate verb To pay someone money to make up for a loss, injury, or inconvenience.
- draw verb To create a picture using a pencil, pen, or similar tool.
- equalize verb To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree.
- offset noun Something that balances out or compensates for something else.
Senses
ausgleichen is used for these senses in English:
- accord (transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
- balance (transitive, figurative) To make (concepts) agree.
- compensate To do (something good) after (something bad) happens.
- compensate (ambitransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally or (metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.
- compensate To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.
- draw (cricket, archaic) Of a batter: to hit (a ball) from the off side to the leg side, especially with an inclined bat; also, to hit (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket. [from 19th c.]
- draw (transitive, cricket) In a match scheduled to last for a certain period of time: to end (a match) with neither side winning because the team batting last has not completed its innings when the playing time concludes.
- equalize (obsolete, transitive) To be equal to; to equal, to rival. [16th–19th c.]
accord — full definition
- noun A formal agreement, especially between countries or groups.
- verb To be in agreement or match with something.
balance — full definition
- noun A state in which opposing weights, forces, or elements are evenly matched; stability.
- noun The amount of money left in an account after deposits and withdrawals, or the difference between credits and debits.
- verb To bring something into a state of equilibrium, or to keep it steady without falling.