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Compare

verb

(past & past part. compared; pres. part. comparing)

Examine and note the similarities or differences of. "We compared notes after we had both seen the movie"

Be comparable.

Consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous. Synonyms: equate, liken. "You cannot equate success in financial matters with greed"

To form the comparative or superlative form on an adjective or adverb.

noun

Qualities that are comparable. Synonyms: comparability, comparison, equivalence. "Beyond compare"

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"Compare" Quotes from Famous Books

... yields, the results of the work of two seasons compare very closely and show generally that there is a variation from a minimum of a scant two gallons up to more than a pint over three gallons from forty pounds of each variety. The forty-pound quantity is taken as representative of the bushel by measure. The varieties leading cider ...

— Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 • Various

... begin in season to check habits which, if suffered to go on, will render you just as far from a favourite with your friends as she, poor orphan girl, is with hers. She had no one to point out to her her faults and her dangers; therefore the condemnation will be nothing to compare with yours, if you forget that the spirit of the golden rule, which is the true spirit of Christianity, requires attention just as close and constant to all the little hardly noticed habits of heart and life as to those of the more ...

— Talkers - With Illustrations • John Bate

... compare this with the previous table, [phi] (AB)/A 1[rho]. Except when the limiting stresses are of opposite sign, the two tables agree very well. In bridge work this occurs only in ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 - "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" • Various

... B. t. u., is called the latent heat of steam at atmospheric pressure, or the heat "from and at 212 deg. F." It is the heat required to change a pound of water from 212 deg. F. to steam at 212 deg. F., and is used by engineers as a standard by which to compare the evaporation ...

— Engineering Bulletin No 1: Boiler and Furnace Testing • Rufus T. Strohm

... be found, and have been favoured with the most liberal communications by his friends; I flatter myself that few biographers have entered upon such a work as this, with more advantages; independent of literary abilities, in which I am not vain enough to compare myself with some great names who have gone before me in this ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell

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