Vocabulary : Compare to Compartment
Compare : To examine the character or qualities of, as of two or more persons or things, for the purpose of discovering their resemblances or differences; to bring into comparison; to regard with discriminating attention. ;; To represent as similar, for the purpose of illustration; to liken. ;; To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of one syllable are compared by affixing "- er" and "-est" to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those of more than one syllable are usually compared by prefixing "more" and "most", or "less" and "least", to the positive; as, beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful. ;; To be like or equal; to admit, or be worthy of, comparison; as, his later work does not compare with his earlier. ;; To vie; to assume a likeness or equality. ;; Comparison. ;; Illustration by comparison; simile. ;; To get; to procure; to obtain; to acquireCompared : of Compare
Comparer : One who compares.
Comparing : of Compare
Comparison : The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate. ;; The state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them. ;; That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude. ;; The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison. ;; A figure by which one person or thing is compared to another, or the two are considered with regard to some property or quality, which is common to them both; e.g., the lake sparkled like a jewel. ;; The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts. ;; To compare.
