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Definition consistent (the same in some way)

more commonly, uniform refers to clothing of distinctive design worn by members of a particular group as a means of identification. For example, an army uniform.
  • A diverse committee will provide a better solution than a committee that is uniform.
uniform = the same (does not vary)
  • a street of uniform tall glass buildings
  • Behind her, the Heart Crystal no longer glowed uniformly red but changed color constantly, from pink to white to red to a marbled red and white.
    Frank Beddor  --  The Looking Glass Wars
  • uniformly = consistently (the same in this way)
  • She had taken over Mercy's flax wheel and was slowly mastering the art of winding a fine uniform thread.
    Elizabeth George Speare  --  The Witch of Blackbird Pond
  • uniform = consistent
  • If for no other reasons, a state so powerful, so jealous of the uniformity of its citizens, cannot long tolerate the atomization of the family.
    Arthur Miller  --  The Crucible
  • uniformity = consistency (being the same)
  • The possibility of enforcing not only complete obedience to the will of the State, but complete uniformity of opinion on all subjects, now existed for the first time.
    George Orwell  --  1984
  • uniformity = consistency (being the same)
  • Edmund was uniformly kind himself; and she had nothing worse to endure on the part of Tom than that sort of merriment which a young man of seventeen will always think fair with a child of ten.
    Jane Austen  --  Mansfield Park
  • uniformly = in a manner that is consistent
  • A great fall of snow had taken place the night before, and the fields were of one uniform white; the appearance was disconsolate, and I found my feet chilled by the cold damp substance that covered the ground.
    Mary Shelley  --  Frankenstein
  • uniform = consistent (all the same)
  • All along the road were big boards about ten feet high, uniformly painted, each with a separate saying or maxim of the President.
    V.S. Naipaul  --  A Bend in the River
  • uniformly = in a manner that is consistent
  • The uniformity did not surprise Eddie.
    Mitch Albom  --  The Five People You Meet in Heaven
  • uniformity = consistency (being the same in some way)
  • Something's wrong with this fog. The progression of the front line is too uniform to be natural.
    Suzanne Collins  --  Catching Fire
  • uniform = consistent (the same in some way)
  • I tried to make out whether they were members of the family or what; but they were all uniformly classical.
    Ernest Hemingway  --  A Farewell to Arms
  • uniformly = consistently (the same in this way)
  • I'm somewhat fascinated by her hair, since it's so uniform, so without a flaw, a wisp, even a split end.
    Suzanne Collins  --  Mockingjay
  • uniform = consistent (all the same)
  • They [the rats] had devoured, in spite of all my efforts to prevent them, all but a small remnant of the contents of the dish. I had fallen into an habitual see-saw, or wave of the hand about the platter: and, at length, the unconscious uniformity of the movement deprived it of effect.
    Edgar Allan Poe  --  The Pit and the Pendulum
  • uniformity = consistency (being the same)
  • Outside the window it was grey, a uniform spiritless grey, the sky as well as the porous, aging snow.
    Margaret Atwood  --  The Blind Assassin
  • uniform = consistent (all the same)
  • My mode of life in my hovel was uniform.
    Mary Shelley  --  Frankenstein
  • uniform = consistent (always the same)
  • The flames that bear down on me have an unnatural height, a uniformity that marks them as human-made, machine-made, Gamemaker-made.
    Suzanne Collins  --  The Hunger Games
  • uniformity = consistency (being the same)
  • Arrows with feathers cut in flawless uniform lines.
    Suzanne Collins  --  The Hunger Games
  • uniform = consistent (all the same)
  • Solved by standard Gammas, unvarying Deltas, uniform Epsilons.
    Aldous Huxley  --  Brave New World
  • uniform = consistent (all the same)
  • Standard men and women; in uniform batches.
    Aldous Huxley  --  Brave New World
uniform = consistent (all the same)

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