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Compare

verb

(past & past part. compared; pres. part. comparing)

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

Be comparable.

Consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous. Synonyms: equate, liken. "You cannot equate success in financial matters with greed"

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

noun

Qualities that are comparable. Synonyms: comparability, comparison, equivalence. "Beyond compare"

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... to three eastern colleges, amongst others to Yale, the only American university which by its buildings and surroundings can lay any claim to compare, even at a long distance, in beauty and associations, with the least among European universities. The three colleges gave him nearly similar answers; but one of them, in addition to the formal statement of terms ...

— Biographies of Working Men • Grant Allen

... first question in the Church catechism, which is certainly quite on the level of any child's understanding,—'What is your name?' It was such an easy good start, I could say it so loud and clear, and I was accustomed to compare it with the first question in the Primer, 'What is the chief end of man?' as vastly more difficult for me to answer. In fact, between my aunt's secret unbelief and my own childish impatience of too much catechism, the matter was indefinitely postponed after a few ineffectual attempts, ...

— The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe • Charles Edward Stowe

... The Greeks feared to name Pluto directly and mentioned him by one of many descriptive titles, such as 'Host of Many': compare the Christian use of O DIABOLOS or ...

— Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica • Homer and Hesiod

... what means has this hitherto unheard-of change been effected? Nobody in any of our museums has as yet been able to restore the natural features to stuffed animals; and he who has any doubts of this, let him take a living cat or dog and compare them with a stuffed cat or dog in any of the first-rate museums. A momentary glance of the eye would soon settle ...

— Wanderings In South America • Charles Waterton

... in his office was fully justified. There was nothing in London, nothing in England to match it as a perfect business machine. And there was no private office in Europe which could compare in impressiveness with ...

— Swirling Waters • Max Rittenberg

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