COMPARE
\kəmpˈe͡ə], \kəmpˈeə], \k_ə_m_p_ˈeə]\
Definitions of COMPARE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
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to form the comparative or superlative form on an adjective or adverb
By Princeton University
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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"
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to form the comparative or superlative form on an adjective or adverb
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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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.
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To be like or equal; to admit, or be worthy of, comparison; as, his later work does not compare with his earlier.
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To vie; to assume a likeness or equality.
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Comparison.
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Illustration by comparison; simile.
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To get; to procure; to obtain; to acquire
By Oddity Software
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Comparison.
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To set things together, to ascertain how far they agree or disagree: to liken or represent as similar: (gram.) to inflect an adjective.
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To hold comparison.
By Daniel Lyons
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To measure, as one thing by another; to examine in order to discover likeness and unlikeness; in grammar, to name over in order, as, much, more, most, the degrees in the inflection of adjectives and adverbs.
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To be like or equal; to be worthy of, or suitable for, comparison.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Thomas Sheridan
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