Synonym: contrast, liken, match, measure. Similar words: comparable, comparison, by comparison, in comparison with, company, accompany, companion, keep company with. Meaning: [kəm'peə] n. qualities that are comparable. v. 1. examine and note the similarities or differences of 2. be comparable 3. consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous 4. to form the comparative or superlative form on an adjective or adverb.
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151 Scholars compare to provide context, make classifications, test hypotheses, and make predictions.
152 One can compare the composition of the suspect piece with the range of composition of genuine pieces of comparable period.
153 There was nothing, not even that hotel sitting room, to compare.
154 Look at the following examples and compare your answers with them.
155 Flow does the development of education and urban centres compare with a similar development in the advanced industrial societies?
156 The journalists gathered in knots to compare notes and decide on the best angle on the story.
157 He called for additional dental records to compare with autopsy findings.
158 In subsequent years, the number of patients in the trial were too small to compare mean annual costs.
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159 Their written language was the most advanced of the pre-Columbian scripts, and their astronomical knowledge beyond compare.
160 We chose a shopping basket of 29 items to compare them with Tesco and Sainsbury.
161 Compare the highlights of the recent Test series in New Zealand.
162 For convenience we shall compare the systems under four main headings, with indirect taxes considered first in each case.
163 When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever. Alexandre Dumas
164 All we've got to do is to take his fingerprints and compare them with the beauties on this envelope.
165 Musicians, critics and cultural commentators often compare recorded music unfavourably with live performance.
166 Nothing can compare with the exhilaration of riding a motorcycle as fast as you can.
167 Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest. Sam Levenson
168 Nothing can compare to the sense of well-being that washed through me at that filthy lunch counter.
169 To find out how different drinks compare for alcohol content, use the % alcohol column.
170 How does this technique compare with other non-operative treatments for gall bladder stones?
171 Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself. Adolf Hitler
172 How does the actual cost compare with the planned cost for meeting the objective?
173 He must read carefully, compare one passage with another and use all the aids he can.
174 Teaching tip Ask pupils to monitor the weather for a week and compare their observations with the local weather forecasts.
175 This was a secret she harbored, that she should dare compare her situation to something so horrible.
176 Case in point: Compare current photographs of George Benson with pictures from early in his career.
177 She went to her chamber and used every art she knew to make herself beautiful beyond compare.
178 Hellmann's have introduced five new salad dressings to tickle our tastebuds which compare favourably calorie-wise with lower calorie mayonnaise.
179 They want to know how school examination results compare, about the level of truancy and about the staying-on rate after 16.
180 Without other references to compare it with, the light seemed to drift around in the blackness.
More similar words: comparable, comparison, by comparison, in comparison with, company, accompany, companion, keep company with, impact, impair, rampage, sympathy, campaign, comply, compel, par., complex, compose, prompt, compete, part, comprise, compound, computer, component, spark, parent, party, complaint, depart.