compare
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
compare/kəmˈpeə(r)/
▶verb
- 1 (often compare something to/with) estimate, measure, or note the similarity or dissimilarity between.
■ (compare something to) liken something to.
■ (usu. compare with) be similar to or have a specified relationship with another thing or person: salaries compare favourably with those of other professions.
- 2 Grammar form the comparative and superlative degrees of (an adjective or an adverb).
– phrases
beyond (or without) compare surpassing all others of the same kind.
compare notes exchange ideas or information about something.
beyond (or without) compare surpassing all others of the same kind.
compare notes exchange ideas or information about something.
– origin ME: from OFr. comparer, from L. comparare, from compar ‘like, equal’.
'compare' also found in these Oxford entries:
abscissa
- absolute music
- -ac
- accusatorial
- -acea
- actinomorphic
- actus reus
- AD
- -ad
- addendum
- -ado
- adversarial
- aestivation
- agnate
- aid climbing
- alexia
- allogamy
- allopatric
- alluvion
- altazimuth
- alternating current
- analogize
- analytic
- anaphora
- angiosperm
- anima
- animus
- anisogamy
- annual
- antibiosis
- anticline
- antigen
- antisepsis
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- apo-
- Apollonian
- apparent time
- applied
- -ar
- are
- asepsis
- Ashkenazi
- asura
- authentic
- autogamy
- autotroph
- avoirdupois
- avulsion
- axon
