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# evenly

«evenly» in Mova's school dictionary: **in equal parts, so everyone gets the same** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (evenly)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Evenly means in equal parts, so everyone gets the same. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evenly/#m1)

2) Evenly also means smoothly and in a level way, like spreading butter evenly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evenly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

maths: sharing into equal groups; a strong sign of division (each gets total ÷ number of groups); «divides evenly» means no remainder; science: spread seeds evenly; everyday life: cut a cake evenly, spread paint evenly

### examples

- She shared 24 cookies evenly among 6 friends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evenly/#x1)
- Split the money evenly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evenly/#x2)
- The 30 chairs are put evenly in 5 rows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evenly/#x3)
- Can 17 be shared evenly by 4? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evenly/#x4)
- Spread the jam evenly on the bread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evenly/#x5)
- 12 divides evenly by 3. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evenly/#x6)
- The plants are spaced evenly in the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evenly/#x7)
- They were very evenly matched, and the battle was a hard one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evenly/#x8)

### note

Division: each gets total ÷ number of groups. Trap: if it does not divide, there is a remainder. «Divides evenly» means the remainder is 0.

### In the corpora

- [People are not spread evenly like butter on toast.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/24-population-and-cities/2/)
- [The average shares the total out evenly: add all the scores, then divide by how many scores there are.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/116-average/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «evenly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evenly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.