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Compare   /kəmpˈɛr/   Listen
Compare

verb
(past & past part. compared; pres. part. comparing)
1.
Examine and note the similarities or differences of.  "We compared notes after we had both seen the movie"
2.
Be comparable.
3.
Consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous.  Synonyms: equate, liken.  "You cannot equate success in financial matters with greed"
4.
To form the comparative or superlative form on an adjective or adverb.
noun
1.
Qualities that are comparable.  Synonyms: comparability, comparison, equivalence.  "Beyond compare"






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... some strange words. I shall not, as a Mexican, forget them. In the midst of the men he stood like a god, with his great stature, and his bright, strong face. One cannot think of him as of a common mortal. Indeed, I will confess that I could only compare him with the Efreet in the Arabian tale, 'whose nostrils were like trumpets, his eyes like lamps, and who ...
— Remember the Alamo • Amelia E. Barr

... behold a fabric complete and harmonious in all its parts, and eminently worthy of its Almighty Maker;—we behold an ample provision for peace, and order, and harmony, in the whole moral world. But, when we compare with these inductions the actual state of man, as displayed to us in the page of history, and in our own daily observation, the conviction is forced upon us, that some mighty change has taken place in this beauteous system, some marvellous disruption of its moral harmony. The manner in ...
— The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings • John Abercrombie

... dear," said Lady Elizabeth, "was beautiful with the grace and power which comes of training. He was a military man, and you have only to look at a dozen common men in a marching regiment and compare them with a dozen of the same class of men who go on plodding to work and loafing at play in their native villages, to see what people can do for their own figures. His eyes, Selina, were bright with intelligence and trained powers of observation; and they were beautiful with kindliness, and ...
— Melchior's Dream and Other Tales • Juliana Horatia Ewing

... blow; But summer suns and azure skies Warm our hearts and please our eyes. And so we dance and so we sing, And here our woodland trophies bring; Hurra, hurra, hurra, hurra! What can with our Flurry dance compare?" ...
— Michael Penguyne - Fisher Life on the Cornish Coast • William H. G. Kingston

... him—"Perron! He was worth the rest of the performance together, he and the orchestra; but when he had sung it with the Lehmann last year, ach—that was a different matter. He had gone through the part like a Siegfried inspired, and she—ah divine! There was no Bruennhilde to compare with her now. What a night it had been! Do you recall it?" they said—"Do you remember it?" And then the ...
— The Black Cross • Olive M. Briggs


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