compare
Pronunciation: /kəmˈpɛɚ/
The English word “compare” has 8 meanings listed here.
verb
- 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.
- To declare two things to be similar in some respect [“to compare X to Y”].
- To form the three degrees of comparison of (an adjective).
- To be similar (often used in the negative).
- To get; to obtain.
noun
- Comparison.
- An instruction or command that compares two values or states.
- Illustration by comparison; simile.
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”).
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