1. Verb
To examine the character or qualities of, as of two or more persons or things, for the purpose of discovering their resemblances or differences; to bring into comparison; to regard with discriminating attention.
2. Verb
To represent as similar, for the purpose of illustration; to liken.
3. Verb
To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of one syllable are compared by affixing "- er" and "-est" to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those of more than one syllable are usually compared by prefixing "more" and "most", or "less" and "least", to the positive; as, beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful.
4. Verb
To be like or equal; to admit, or be worthy of, comparison; as, his later work does not compare with his earlier.
5. Verb
To vie; to assume a likeness or equality.
6. Noun
Comparison.
7. Noun
Illustration by comparison; simile.
8. Verb
To get; to procure; to obtain; to acquire
9. Verb
To look at things together to see how they are alike or different.
To examine two or more things in order to identify similarities and differences.
“The study compares two approaches.”
10. Noun
qualities that are comparable; "no comparison between the two books"; "beyond compare"
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary
11. Verb
examine and note the similarities or differences of; "John compared his haircut to his friend's"; "We compared notes after we had both seen the movie"
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary
12. Verb
be comparable; "This car does not compare with our line of Mercedes"
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary
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