1. (verb)comparison, compare, equivalence, comparability qualities that are comparable "no comparison between the two books"; "beyond compare"
2. (verb)compare examine and note the similarities or differences of "John compared his haircut to his friend's"; "We compared notes after we had both seen the movie"
3. (verb)compare be comparable "This car does not compare with our line of Mercedes"
4. (verb)compare, liken, equate consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous "We can compare the Han dynasty to the Romans"; "You cannot equate success in financial matters with greed"
3. (verb)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
4. (verb)compare to represent as similar, for the purpose of illustration; to liken
5. (verb)compare 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
6. (verb)compare to be like or equal; to admit, or be worthy of, comparison; as, his later work does not compare with his earlier
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