noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
trivial by comparison
▪ Her feelings for Simon seemed trivial by comparison.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
direct
▪ It is hard to make a direct comparison, for relative prices have changed.
▪ I have yet to get my hands on a 200-megahertz Pentium-based computer to do a direct comparison.
▪ Well stirred by seals, Amos Lake was too murky for direct productivity comparisons with the other lakes.
▪ The profitability index allows a direct comparison between the projects in terms of the present value of benefit per unit cost.
▪ In questions 3 and 7 it is essential that making and buying prices are on a basis allowing direct comparison.
▪ But for a direct comparison of clocks to be made, the traveler must return.
▪ The result of this is that a direct comparison with the other regional data is not possible.
▪ In helping to answer this question two direct comparisons are available.
international
▪ Making international comparisons Great care should be taken in using real output percapita figures to compare different countries' standards of living.
▪ The survey attempted to answer critics who have dismissed international comparisons as invalid because of differences in cultural expectations about health care.
▪ Consider the problems involved in using national income statistics to make international comparisons of living standards. 4.
▪ Although teachers flinch at such international comparisons, most of them are surprisingly enthusiastic about the national curriculum.
▪ This is inaccurate, and unjustified by any international comparison.
▪ The system of social security which varies widely from country to country is another important influence when international comparisons are made.
▪ Mr. Mellor My hon. Friend is absolutely right, but the international comparisons are even more telling.
▪ League tables of international comparison are one measure by which the Government's education record can be judged.
■ NOUN
group
▪ A similar-aged comparison group of women was found who had also participated in a previous study.
▪ Experimental mortality-the differential loss of respondents from comparison groups.
▪ Records of patients with multiple sclerosis were selected as a neurological comparison group.
▪ Selection-biases resulting from differential recruitment of comparison groups, producing different mean levels of the measures of effects.
▪ Records of previous admission for peptic ulcer were sought for people in the case and the comparison groups.
▪ Self-Selection Another problem in selecting a comparison group is self-selection.
▪ The three datasets each included a case group of children at risk, and an appropriate comparison group.
▪ If a comparison group were to be used, the sample would have to be selected very carefully. 8.
■ VERB
allow
▪ This qualified chimera image will allow our comparison of Presocratic reasoning with scientific reasoning to be more precise.
▪ The profitability index allows a direct comparison between the projects in terms of the present value of benefit per unit cost.
▪ In questions 3 and 7 it is essential that making and buying prices are on a basis allowing direct comparison.
▪ They were designed to allow some comparison of the films in terms of the type and amount of information actually present.
▪ We await the development of scoring systems that meet these criteria and allow comparisons of hospital units.
▪ Assessing standards and comparing outcomes are important in medical practice and allow comparison of different units and appropriate allocation of resources.
▪ These were then calculated as percentages to allow direct comparisons.
▪ This design allows the comparison of the behaviour of the two regions under identical experimental conditions.
based
▪ You have to present a case based upon comparison with similar properties in the same area.
▪ Other studies will be based on detailed comparisons of returns for the Censuses of Production for each country.
▪ They are also primarily based on comparisons between the specialist and generic teams.
▪ This means that models of councillor-officer relationships based on comparisons between ministers and civil servants are likely to be misleading.
▪ However, this conclusion was based solely on a comparison of income support levels with supplementary benefit rates.
▪ Another alignment, based on sequence comparison is also completely different from the one shown here.
bear
▪ The efforts with pigeons and parrots bear only shadowy comparison.
▪ The final will be a repeat of last year, although Devon will be hoping it does not bear an exact comparison.
▪ The position bears comparison with the development of geometrical reasoning by Euclid.
▪ He came to realize that traditional accounts of science, whether inductivist or falsificationist, do not bear comparison with historical evidence.
▪ Another site which bears comparison with Chedworth is Nettleton Scrubb in Wiltshire.
▪ The discounting and assimilation processes bear little comparison to descriptions made in any of the content areas.
draw
▪ Three years ago there was hardly a young black cinema at all, now critics are drawing comparisons as if bored with the idea.
▪ More recently, even liberal commentators have begun drawing comparisons between Clinton and Nixon.
▪ It is also clear that it is difficult to draw comparisons between the Western Isles and the developing countries.
▪ What then are the main conclusions about comparative politics that can be drawn from this cursory comparison to natural science?
▪ Not surprisingly therefore, he drew comparisons between the problems faced by the University and those confronting his own establishment.
▪ It should be possible to draw international comparisons.
▪ Table 3.4 draws some comparisons between their liabilities.
include
▪ These are included for comparison as they were not tested for precise position-independent and copy-number dependent expression.
▪ This has included a comparison with the practice of our partners and allies.
▪ A histological normal control material was included for comparison.
▪ A correction for this effect has already been included in the comparison made in Fig. 8.5.
▪ They may be expressed in terms of overall expenditure and cost per item and include comparisons with historic expenditure and budget expectations.
▪ The directories should also be purged, otherwise out of date files will be included in the comparison.
invite
▪ And instead of heading off into uncharted waters, Shyamalan has positively invited comparisons with his previous opus.
▪ No other sport invites such comparisons.
▪ The lightness and wit of Brooke-Rose's novels do, however, invite comparison with those of Muriel Spark.
▪ Perhaps movie marketers should have been more careful about inviting comparisons.
▪ This would seem to invite an invidious comparison between white youth who are unemployed and their more successful black peers.
▪ The movie invites comparison to numerous secular films and, more often than not, it suffers from the resulting deja vu.
involve
▪ It often involves the comparison of observed effects with expectations or intentions.
▪ In effect, they involve a comparison of the general equilibrium of the economy with and without the government budget.
▪ Talk might involve ideas of comparison of shape, size, colour or weight.
▪ Its use subsequently spread to other public sector analyses involving a comparison of costs and benefits over time.
▪ An interpretation of a provision of Community law thus involves a comparison of the different language versions.
▪ The discussion which follows may involve comparison and the use of various mathematical ideas.
▪ There will also be a number of analytic papers, some involving international comparisons.
▪ It may also involve comparison with other professions and other occupations and not just with rewards within the organisation.
make
▪ Any one student may take modules from a number of subject areas and will make comparisons of workloads and standards.
▪ The overall profile of Clio customers during 1992 makes an interesting comparison to the average for the supermini sector.
▪ He would instead become stuck making endless comparisons and contrasts, often making no decision at all or a purely random one.
▪ This very often happens in planning because some departments makes them vague in comparison.
▪ Even if you fall in love with the first one you see, it's important to be able to make comparisons.
▪ The Ego loves making comparisons - and this can be useful.
▪ But this may also attract criticism from parents if they make their own comparisons about trends and innovations.
pale
▪ Everything pales in comparison to a creation of this awesome magnitude.
▪ But that pales in comparison to what he brings to this city.
▪ The two disputes he mentioned pale in comparison with others looming on the horizon.
▪ They also prevail in an era where travel abuses pale in comparison to those of earlier years.
▪ Online shopping pales somewhat in comparison, which was the point of Larry Elliott's article.
▪ But the nine goals paled in comparison to the 16-plus average the stars have produced over the past seven games.
▪ Still, encouraging as such capital outlays are, they pale in comparison with Western investment in neighboring countries.
provide
▪ Table 8. 7 provides a comparison of two typical processing options.
▪ The generally optimistic tenor of this debate provides a revealing comparison with those public views examined for the earlier period.
▪ Plastic tubing of different sizes provide opportunities for comparisons.
▪ Their employers will also be interviewed, and other farms will be surveyed soas to provide a point of comparison.
▪ Such products are often of excellent educational design, but they do not provide comparisons between competing systems or databases.
▪ Management development opportunities through shadowing managerial roles and processes provide a contrast and comparison for reflection on the management of education.
seem
▪ Oh, how puny my contemporaries seem by comparison!
▪ Mount Rushmore would have seemed a bagatelle by comparison.
▪ The brilliant colours make even the glossiest illustration seem dull by comparison.
▪ The second version seems naked by comparison.
▪ The Agip Motel, it was called; the Speke seemed quite luxurious by comparison.
▪ They are the deadliest weapons of all, so that now the gun seems almost innocent by comparison.
▪ Her own visit to the cinema with an inarticulate young man from the West of Ireland seemed very dull by comparison.
stand
▪ Our commitment to quality and to professionalism will ensure that this prototype database will stand comparison by international standards.
▪ It would stand comparison even with that special day.
▪ Rory was just another one, he'd not stand the comparison either, Parr was the real thing.
▪ Both Lemper and Stratas have recorded it, but Réaux stands comparison well.
▪ It certainly stands out by comparison with Psychology in and People.
use
▪ There are three notable studies that use this method of comparison.
▪ However, before we look at specific implementation schemes, we want to introduce a few terms to use in making comparisons.
▪ Decision makers should satisfy themselves that current practice is itself worth having before using it as a comparison for a new treatment.
▪ Psychometric methods have also been used in comparisons of two or more methods of library instruction.
▪ Performance measures are usually most helpful when used for comparisons: for example, between units performing similar tasks, or over time.
▪ Linear regression was used for comparison with different variables.
▪ Part 4 contains a list of the reference data sets and reference results used for the comparisons made throughout the book.
▪ It is widely assumed that these scoring systems can be used for comparisons.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
draw a comparison/parallel/distinction etc
▪ Here Locke draws a parallel between modes such as triangles, and substances such as gold and the Strasburg clock.
▪ I drew a parallel between the grinding plates and the grinding, unresolved pressures underlying this election year.
▪ I will start by drawing a distinction between what I will call social science history and hermeneutic history.
▪ It is also clear that it is difficult to draw comparisons between the Western Isles and the developing countries.
▪ It is now commonplace to draw a distinction between care in and care by the community.
▪ John Mortimer made the presentation speech, drawing parallels between Dickens and Dostoevsky.
▪ Why draw a distinction between the adopted and the biological child?
pale in/by comparison
▪ But even these concerns pale by comparison with the fears that people have about traffic safety.
▪ But that pales in comparison to what he brings to this city.
▪ But the nine goals paled in comparison to the 16-plus average the stars have produced over the past seven games.
▪ Everything pales in comparison to a creation of this awesome magnitude.
▪ The number fired and to be fired at Burlington Northern pales in comparison with the number to be let go at AT&.
▪ The two disputes he mentioned pale in comparison with others looming on the horizon.
▪ They also prevail in an era where travel abuses pale in comparison to those of earlier years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Between treatment comparisons were made using signed rank tests and correlations were sought using Spearman's rank correlation test.
▪ From Augustus to Peter the Great, the history books were ransacked to find suitable comparisons.
▪ Manometric studies in patients with Barrett's oesophagus are few and the comparison with patients with gastrooesophageal reflux are less frequent.
▪ The point of making these comparisons is that artistic practices affect how a critic should describe a landscape.
▪ The Warriors' point guards seem more like foot soldiers in comparison.
▪ These comparisons form the basis for the determination of prevalence estimates for anemia, growth retardation, or overweight.
▪ This is an attempt to distance themselves from comparisons with those doing research in brain modeling.