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Definition of Compare

1. Verb. Examine and note the similarities or differences of. "We compared notes after we had both seen the movie"

2. Noun. Qualities that are comparable. "Beyond compare"

3. Verb. Be comparable. "This car does not compare with our line of Mercedes"

4. Verb. Consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous. "You cannot equate success in financial matters with greed"

5. Verb. To form the comparative or superlative form on an adjective or adverb.

Definition of Compare

1. v. t. 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. v. i. To be like or equal; to admit, or be worthy of, comparison; as, his later work does not compare with his earlier.

3. n. Comparison.

4. v. t. To get; to procure; to obtain; to acquire

Definition of Compare

1. Verb. (transitive) To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things ["to compare X with Y"]. Having made the comparison of X '''with''' Y, one might have found it similar '''to''' Y or different '''from''' Y. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To declare two things to be similar in some respect ["to compare X to Y"]. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) (grammar) To form the three degrees of comparison of (an adjective). ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To be similar (''often used in the negative''). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Compare

1. to represent as similar [v -PARED, -PARING, -PARES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Compare

comparative literature comparative medicine comparative negligence comparative pathology comparative physiology comparative psychology comparative superlative comparatively comparativeness comparatives

comparativist comparativists comparator comparator microscope comparators compare (current term) compared comparer comparers compares

comparing comparingly comparison comparison-shop comparison-shopper comparison-shopping comparison shop comparison shopper comparison shopping comparisonitis

Literary usage of Compare

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, William George Clark, William Aldis Wright (1878)
"compare The Merchant of Venice, iii. 2. 265 : * I have engaged myself to a ... compare what Malcolm says of himself above, line 59 : ' Smacking of every sin ..."

2. Teachers College Record by Columbia University. Teachers College (1900)
"compare temperature of coasts and interior for January and July- compare east and ... compare with coldest area of North America in position and extent. ..."

3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"2) as to the value of a valla, but his " 3 " may be correct (compare Colebrooke, ... 74 and 75 of Taylor compare Colebrooke, p. 67, notes 2 and 3. ..."

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