Definition of Compare

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Compare

To examine the character or qualities of, as of two or more persons or things, for the purpose of discovering their resemblances or differences; to bring into comparison; to regard with discriminating attention.

To represent as similar, for the purpose of illustration; to liken.

To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of one syllable are compared by affixing "- er" and "-est" to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those of more than one syllable are usually compared by prefixing "more" and "most", or "less" and "least", to the positive; as, beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful.

To be like or equal; to admit, or be worthy of, comparison; as, his later work does not compare with his earlier.

To vie; to assume a likeness or equality.

Comparison.

Illustration by comparison; simile.

To get; to procure; to obtain; to acquire

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Compare Quotations

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Lao Tzu

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
William Blake

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador Dali

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
Marquis de Sade

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.
Adam Sandler

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
George Eliot

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
Aeschylus

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.
Dee Hock

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir Nabokov

Compare Translations

compare in Afrikaans is vergelyk
compare in Danish is sammenligne
compare in Dutch is vergelijken
compare in Finnish is verrata
compare in French is comparons, comparent, comparer, comparez
compare in German is vergleichen, Vergleich, vergleichen
compare in Italian is paragonare
compare in Spanish is comparar, cotejar

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