(equates, equating, equated)
If you equate one thing with another, or if you say that one thing equates with another, you believe that they are strongly connected.
I'm always wary of men wearing suits, as I equate this with power and authority...
The author doesn't equate liberalism and conservatism...
The principle of hierarchy does not equate to totalitarian terror.
VERB: V n with n, V pl-n, V to/with n
• equation
...the equation of gangsterism with business in Coppola's film.
N-UNCOUNT: oft N of n with n