comparison
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
phrenology
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English comparisoun, from Old French comparison, from Latin comparātiō, from comparātus, perfect passive participle of comparō.
Inflected forms:
form: comparisons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: to bring a thing into comparison with another
there is no comparison between them
Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
gloss: An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He made a careful comparison of the available products before buying anything.
As sharp legal practitioners, no class of human beings can bear a comparison with them.
The miracles of our Lord and those of the Old Testament afford many interesting points of comparison.
"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve.[…]"
gloss: With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There really is no comparison between the performance of today's computers and those of a decade ago.
gloss: A feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In English, adjectives and adverbs have three forms when making a comparison: the plain form "hot", the comparative form "hotter", and the superlative form "hottest".
gloss: That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Whereto shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what comparison shall we compare it?
gloss: A simile.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rhetoric
uncountable
gloss: The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: comparable
comparative
comparator
compare
Derived words: beyond comparison
by comparison
comparing and contrasting
comparison is the thief of joy
comparisonitis
comparison operator
comparisons are odious
comparison shop
comparison-shop
comparison shopper
comparison shopping
comparison-shopping
comparisonwise
degree of comparison
in comparison
intercomparison
limit comparison test
megalocomparison
multicomparison
no comparison
pale by comparison
pale in comparison
recomparison
standard of comparison
suffer by comparison
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: vergelyking
lang: Albanian
word: krahasim
lang: Arabic
word: مُقَارَنَة
roman: muqārana
lang: Arabic
word: مُقَابَلَة
roman: muqābala
lang: Arabic
word: تَشْبِيه
roman: tašbīh
lang: Arabic
word: مُقَايَسَة
roman: muqāyasa
lang: Arabic
word: مُقارَنة
roman: mʊqarənə
lang: Armenian
word: համեմատություն
roman: hamematutʻyun
lang: Azerbaijani
word: müqayisə
lang: Belarusian
word: параўна́нне
roman: parawnánnje
lang: Bengali
word: তুলনা
roman: tulna
lang: Bulgarian
word: сравне́ние
roman: sravnénie
lang: Burmese
word: အနှိုင်း
roman: a.hnuing:
lang: Catalan
word: comparació
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 比較 /比较
roman: bǐjiào, bǐjiǎo
lang: Czech
word: porovnání
lang: Danish
word: sammenligning
lang: Dutch
word: vergelijking
lang: Esperanto
word: komparo
lang: Finnish
word: vertailu
lang: French
word: comparaison
lang: Galician
word: comparación
lang: Galician
word: comparanza
lang: Georgian
word: შედარება
roman: šedareba
lang: German
word: Vergleich
lang: German
word: Komparation
lang: German
word: Vergleichen
lang: German
word: Vergleichung
lang: Greek
word: σύγκριση
roman: sýgkrisi
lang: Ancient Greek
word: σύγκρισις
roman: súnkrisis
lang: Hebrew
word: השוואה \ הַשְׁוָאָה
roman: hashva'á
lang: Hindi
word: तुलना
roman: tulnā
lang: Hungarian
word: összehasonlítás
lang: Hungarian
word: összevetés
lang: Ingrian
word: rinnoitus
lang: Italian
word: paragone
lang: Italian
word: confronto
lang: Italian
word: comparazione
lang: Japanese
word: 比較
roman: hikaku
lang: Kazakh
word: салыстыру
roman: salystyru
lang: Khmer
word: ពាក្យប្រៀប
roman: piek priəp
lang: Khmer
word: ប្រៀប
roman: priəp
lang: Korean
word: 비교
roman: bigyo
lang: Lao
word: ການປຽບທຽບ
roman: kān pīap thīap
lang: Latin
word: comparātiō
lang: Latvian
word: salīdzināšana
lang: Latvian
word: salīdzinājums
lang: Lithuanian
word: lyginimas
lang: Macedonian
word: споредба
roman: sporedba
lang: Malayalam
word: താരതമ്യം
roman: tāratamyaṁ
lang: Māori
word: whakatairitenga
lang: Middle English
word: comparisoun
lang: Mongolian
word: харьцуулалт
roman: xarʹcuulalt
lang: Norman
word: compathaison
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: sammenligning
lang: Old English
word: wiþmetennes
lang: Persian
word: مقایسه
roman: moqâyese
lang: Persian
word: تشبیه
roman: tašbih
lang: Polish
word: porównanie
lang: Portuguese
word: comparação
lang: Romanian
word: comparație
lang: Russian
word: сравне́ние
roman: sravnénije
lang: Russian
word: сра́внивание
roman: srávnivanije
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: поређење
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: у̏споредба
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: poređenje
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ȕsporedba
lang: Slovak
word: porovnanie
lang: Slovene
word: primerjava
lang: Spanish
word: comparación
lang: Spanish
word: comparanza
lang: Swedish
word: jämförelse
lang: Tajik
word: муқоиса
roman: muqoyisa
lang: Tamil
word: ஒப்பீடு
roman: oppīṭu
lang: Thai
word: การเปรียบเทียบ
roman: gaan-bprìiap-tîiap
lang: Tibetan
word: འགྲན་བསྡུར
roman: 'gran bsdur
lang: Tibetan
word: མཉམ་བསྡུར
roman: mnyam bsdur
lang: Tibetan
word: དཔེ་ཉེར་འཇལ
roman: dpe nyer 'jal
lang: Tibetan
word: དཔེ་ཟླ
roman: dpe zla
lang: Tibetan
word: ཚད་སྡུར
roman: tshad sdur
lang: Turkish
word: karşılaştırma
lang: Turkish
word: mukayese
lang: Turkish
word: salıştırma
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: تطبیق
roman: tatbik
lang: Ukrainian
word: порі́вняння
roman: porívnjannja
lang: Urdu
word: مُوَازَنَہ
roman: mūāzana
lang: Urdu
word: اَنْدَازَہ
roman: andāza
lang: Uzbek
word: muqoyasa
lang: Vietnamese
word: sự so sánh
lang: Walloon
word: rimetaedje