Equalize and Surface

equalize

Compensate; make the score equal.
- synonyms: equalise, get even
Make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching.
- usage: "let's equalize the duties among all employees in this office"; "The company matched the discount policy of its competitors"
- synonyms: equal, match, equalise, equate

(v.t.) To make equal; to cause to correspond or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens or taxes.
(v.t.) To pronounce equal; to compare as equal.
(v.t.) To be equal to; equal; to match.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

surface

A small plane or surface, usually capable of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aeroplane or flying machine.
(n.) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.
(n.) A magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface.
(n.) The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, especially the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body.
(n.) Hence, outward or external appearance.
(v.t.) To give a surface to; especially, to cause to have a smooth or plain surface; to make smooth or plain.
(v.t.) To work over the surface or soil of, as ground, in hunting for gold.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

The outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary.
- usage: "there is a special cleaner for these surfaces"; "the cloth had a pattern of red dots on a white surface"
The extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object.
- usage: "they skimmed over the surface of the water"; "a brush small enough to clean every dental surface"; "the sun has no distinct surface"
The outermost level of the land or sea.
- usage: "earthquakes originate far below the surface"; "three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water"
- synonyms: Earth's surface
A superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something.
- usage: "it was not what it appeared to be on the surface"
Information that has become public.
- usage: "all the reports were out in the open"; "the facts had been brought to the surface"
- synonyms: open
A device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight.
- synonyms: airfoil, aerofoil, control surface

Come to the surface.
- synonyms: come up, rise up, rise
Put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface.
- usage: "coat the cake with chocolate"
- synonyms: coat
Appear or become visible; make a showing.
- usage: "She turned up at the funeral"; "I hope the list key is going to surface again"
- synonyms: come on, come out, turn up, show up