verb (v)

• consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous(verb.cognition)

  Example:
  You cannot equate success in financial matters with greed.
  

  Synonym:
  compare, liken
  

  source: wordnet30
• be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics(verb.stative)

  Synonym:
  correspond
  

  source: wordnet30
• make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching(verb.change)

  Synonym:
  equal, equalise, equalize, match
  

  source: wordnet30
• To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison; to reduce to mean time or motion; as, to equate payments; to equate lines of railroad for grades or curves; equated distances.(verb)

  source: webster1913