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Editorial note

"I will fight here by your side, even the greedy bastards amongst us.

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Quick take

the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall); "he enjoyed the evening light across the lake"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of even gathered in one view.

noun

the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall); "he enjoyed the evening light across the lake"

verb

make level or straight; "level the ground"

verb

become even or more even; "even out the surface"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for even.

noun

the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall); "he enjoyed the evening light across the lake"

verb

make level or straight; "level the ground"

verb

become even or more even; "even out the surface"

verb

make even or more even

adjective

divisible by two

adjective

equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced; "even amounts of butter and sugar"; "on even terms"; "it was a fifty-fifty (or even) split"; "had a fifty-fifty (or even) chance"; "an even fight"

adjective

being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with); "an even application of varnish"; "an even floor"; "the road was not very even"; "the picture is even with the window"

adjective

symmetrically arranged; "even features"; "regular features"; "a regular polygon"

adjective

occurring at fixed intervals; "a regular beat"; "the even rhythm of his breathing"

adjective

of the score in a contest; "the score is tied"

adverb

used as an intensive especially to indicate something unexpected; "even an idiot knows that"; "declined even to consider the idea"; "I don't have even a dollar!"

adverb

in spite of; notwithstanding; "even when he is sick, he works"; "even with his head start she caught up with him"

adverb

to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons; "looked sick and felt even worse"; "an even (or still) more interesting problem"; "still another problem must be solved"; "a yet sadder tale"

adverb

to the full extent; "loyal even unto death"

Example sentences

"I will fight here by your side, even the greedy bastards amongst us.

It can be worth even more if Larry Page is dying of thirst at the same time and starts a bidding war.

No, it's like our tenth or eleventh priority.

Maybe Jeff is too far down the rabbit hole to realise this, but most people don't know what programming even looks like.

Too bad this insight wasn't available to Orwell or he could have made 1984 even scarier.

Note that this isn't even by choice -- if we don't take action, then we look like we are tacitly encouraging it.

The security services even called Greenwald to give him the news that his partner had been detained.

They eventually did get a confirmation from the 88th precinct that I was there, which of course no one relayed to me.

I mean, I assume they're not, given that Apps Script only works in Spreadsheet right now, and it doesn't even have keyboard shortcuts as part of its API.

It's not even super clear whose mom he was talking about, and doesn't really matter, because nobody's mom can use the goddamn website.

Hell, I'm even done with sketchy torrent sites, and different scene groups fighting over who gets to release what, and a billion codecs and formats.

" Just like Ayn Rand said my brothers!Then I come here and not a single person on here even notices the massive hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness.

If you burn yourself out hard, it will be difficult to be effective at any future job you go to, even if it is ostensibly a wonderful job.

There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly.

I can't even imagine being held captive without arrest for hours, being questioned about the purpose of my trip, about my religion and habits, all while travelling within my country.

The kinds of logic, planning and reasoning skills, plus the attention to detail required to be even a half-assed developer, can be extremely valuable in other fields.

"However, executives at Starz apparently concluded that they would lose even more money by giving consumers a reason to subscribe to Netflix instead of the cable channel.

I hate... plussing, or whatever it's called when you do a massive rant in Google+ even though it's a terrible venue for it but you do it anyway because in the end you really do want Google to be successful.

"I was offered the chance to make a phone call, but the only number I even have memorized anymore is my mother's, and despite knowing that my friends were probably scared to death looking for me, I wasn't at the point of calling her.

If not, commenting on a several-day-old thread will guarantee that you can never post another comment, since once threads drop off the front page it's not likely that many 1000+ karma users will even see those comments, never mind endorse them.

More than anything else, this describes an appalling failure at every level of the company's technical infrastructure to ensure even a basic degree of engineering rigor and fault tolerance.