compare
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English comparen, from Old French comparer, from Latin comparare (“to prepare, procure”), from compar (“like or equal to another”), from com- + par (“equal”). Displaced native Old English metan (“to compare,” also “to measure”).
Inflected forms:
form: compares
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: comparing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: compared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: compared
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: compare
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: compare
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: compared
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: compare
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: comparest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: compared
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: comparedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: compares
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: compareth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: compared
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: compare
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: compared
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: compare
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: compared
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: compare
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: comparing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: compared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cp.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: comp.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: cmp
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: compares
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cp.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: comp.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cmp
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things ["to compare X with Y"]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it similar to Y or different from Y.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Compare the tiger's coloration with that of the zebra.
You can't compare my problems and yours.
Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.
Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
gloss: To declare two things to be similar in some respect ["to compare X to Y"].
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Astronomers have compared comets to dirty snowballs.
Solon compared the people unto the sea, and orators and counsellors to the winds; for that the sea would be calm and quiet if the winds did not trouble it.
And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved. The authors were compared to doctors who offered to a patient nothing more than invectives against the disease which consumed him.
gloss: To form the three degrees of comparison of (an adjective).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We compare "good" as "good", "better", "best".
gloss: To be similar (often used in the negative).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A sapling and a fully-grown oak tree do not compare.
Shall pack-horses[…]compare with Caesar's?
gloss: To get; to obtain.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: To fill his bags, and richesse to compare.
gloss: Comparison.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: His mighty Champion, ſtrong above compare,
Their small galleys may not hold compare with our tall ships.
gloss: An instruction or command that compares two values or states.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: […] including addition and subtraction, memory operations, compares, shifts, logic operations, and condition operations.
2013, Paolo Bruni, Carlos Alberto Gomes da Silva Junior, Craig McKellar, Managing DB2 for z/OS Utilities with DB2 Tools Solution Packs
It is always advisable to run a compare between your source and target environments. This should highlight whether there are differences in the lengths of VARCHARs and then the differences can be corrected before you clone.
gloss: Illustration by comparison; simile.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
examples: Rhymes full of protest, of oath, and big compare.
Related words: comparand
comparandum
comparative
comparison
cf
contrast
Derived words: comparable
compare and contrast
compare and despair
compare apples to apples
compare apples with apples
comparee
compare notes
comparingly
incompared
intercompare
miscompare
recompare
uncompared
beyond compare
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