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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French comparer (12c., Modern French comparer ), from Late Latin comparare "to liken, to compare" (see comparison ). Related: Compared ; comparing . To compare notes is from 1708. Phrase without compare (attested from 1620s, but similar ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES comparing and contrasting (= showing how two things are similar and different ) ▪ an essay comparing and contrasting Verdi and Wagner and their operas COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB favourably ▪ Do we really believe ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on education and pedagogy . The journal was established in 1975 and is published by Taylor & Francis . The editor-in-chief is Paul Morris ...
Usage examples of compare.
Compared to the total lander and indigen population of Acorus, the Myrmidons were few.
Compared to the soft and warm colors of the web stretching out below the peak, the purplish pink that surrounded him was wrong, not subtly wrong, but oppressively so, a color and shade that did not belong on Acorus, that conflicted and fought with the tapestry formed by the softer lifewebs.
For each cortical map, the number of ways the cortical map can be activated over a period of time is very large compared to the number of ways it can be activated that produce a constant activity pattern.
Close by were the gardens of the Palais Royal and the Tuileries, which, with their statuary, Adams thought beautiful beyond compare.
In his diary Adams compared the situation between Britain and America to that of an eagle and a cat.
The shock experienced by John Adams on his first arrival in France was tepid compared to that of his wife.
OF THE TIMES when Adams felt himself uncomfortably alone at center stage, there were few to compare to the afternoon in London, when at the end of a short ride through the rain with Lord Carmarthen in his carriage, they approached the arched gatehouse at St.
Like nearly everyone who ever played a large part in public life and helped make history, Adams wondered how history would portray him, and worried not a little that he might be unfairly treated, misunderstood, or his contributions made to look insignificant compared to those of others.
Not deliberately, at any rate, and in this company the likelihood of lice was slight compared to the sort of places in which poverty had forced Adele to eat and sleep for many years.
Indeed, Metternich himself in his own Memoirs often follows a good deal in the line of Bourrienne: among many formal attacks, every now and then he lapses into half involuntary and indirect praise of his great antagonist, especially where he compares the men he had to deal with in aftertimes with his former rapid and talented interlocutor.
He might compare the trustworthy goodness of Albus Dumbledore to the infinitely superior goodness of God the Father, stressing that we can find the same kind of reassurance in God, and godly mentors, that Harry finds in his headmaster.
Catal Huyuk in Anatolian Turkey is one of the oldest cities known to man, and carpeting has been found there which is of so high a quality that it compares favourably with those made today.
Compared to our sisters in other places and times, women on Anicca were paragons of restraint.
Even admitting that experiments on animals have contributed to the relief of human suffering, such measure of relief is infinitesimal compared with the pain which has been inflicted to secure it.
Can we just run a compare on the Jammer using the anomalies we found in the Trigger?