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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

... merchant's slaves carried them upon their heads into the city. And all the while the sailors had sat silent, cross-legged in a crescent upon the deck, eagerly watching the bargain, and now a murmur of satisfaction arose among them, and they began to compare it among themselves with other bargains that they had known. And I found out from them that there are seven merchants in Perdondaris, and that they had all come to the captain one by one before the bargaining began, and each had warned him privately against the others. And ...

— Tales of Three Hemispheres • Lord Dunsany

... slight openings to social life which occasionally offered themselves even to him; but he attended his debating club with regularity, and, though silent, studied every subject which was brought before it. It interested him to compare their sayings and doings with those of the House of Commons, and he found advantage in the critical comparison. Though not in what is styled society, his mind did not rust from the want of intelligent companions. The clear perception, accurate ...

— Endymion • Benjamin Disraeli

... with a full brush in black silhouette, placing the object against the light or white paper, so that its true boundary may be seen uninterfered with by surface markings or shadows, and, concentrating our attention upon the edge, follow it as carefully as possible with the solid black. Then, if we compare the result with our outline, it will help to show where it has failed; and the practice of thus blocking in with the brush in solid silhouette will tend to encourage a larger style of drawing, since good outline means good perception ...

— Line and Form (1900) • Walter Crane

... rapped out, "in the soft soil beneath the window of Professor Northrop's room, I found footprints. I have only to compare the impressions I took there and those of the people in this room, to prove that, while the real murderer stood guard below the window, he sent some one more nimble up the rain pipe to shoot the poisoned dart at Professor Northrop, ...

— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve

... a few months at home they would migrate with the robins. He would meet the same people he had seen all summer. They would complain of the Southern cooking and knit and tat while they babbled amiably of themselves and the members of their family and their doings. The men would smoke and compare business experiences when they had finished flaying the Administration. Discontent grew within him as he reviewed it. Why couldn't he and Aunt Mary do something different for the winter? By George! he would suggest it ...

— The Dude Wrangler • Caroline Lockhart

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