compare
IPA: kʌmpˈɛr
noun
- (uncountable) Comparison.
- (countable, programming) An instruction or command that compares two values or states.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Illustration by comparison; simile.
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.
- (transitive) To declare two things to be similar in some respect ["to compare X to Y"].
- (transitive, grammar) To form the three degrees of comparison of (an adjective).
- (intransitive) To be similar (often used in the negative).
- (obsolete) To get; to obtain.
Advertisement
Examples of "compare" in Sentences
- Compare with the hyperbola article.
- Compare the toy on the shelf pictures.
- Compared to this it is the soul of blandness.
- But how do these compare with the luminaries
- Compare the text of the boxes to see the differences.
- Phenocrysts compared similar to the effusive eruption in 1846.
- To compare the two is the same as comparing apples and carrots.