compare
verb
- estimate, measure, or note the similarity or dissimilarity between
noun
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Pronunciation: /kəmˈpɛɚ/ / [kəmˈpɛɚ] / [kəmˈpɛɹ]
noun
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”).
- Comparison.
“His mighty Champion, ſtrong above compare,”
“Their small galleys may not hold compare with our tall ships.”
- An instruction or command that compares two values or states.
“[…] including addition and subtraction, memory operations, compares, shifts, logic operations, and condition operations.”
“2013, Paolo Bruni, Carlos Alberto Gomes da Silva Junior, Craig McKellar, Managing DB2 for z/OS Utilities with DB2 Tools Solution Packs It is always advisable to run a compare between your source and target environments. This should highlight whether there are differences in the lengths of VARCHARs and then the differences can be corrected before you clone.”
- Illustration by comparison; simile.
“Rhymes full of protest, of oath, and big compare.”
verb
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”).
- 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.
“Compare the tiger's coloration with that of the zebra.”
“You can't compare my problems and yours.”
- To declare two things to be similar in some respect ["to compare X to Y"].
“Astronomers have compared comets to dirty snowballs.”
“Solon compared the people unto the sea, and orators and counsellors to the winds; for that the sea would be calm and quiet if the winds did not trouble it.”
- To form the three degrees of comparison of (an adjective).
“We compare "good" as "good", "better", "best".”
- To be similar (often used in the negative).
“A sapling and a fully-grown oak tree do not compare.”
“Shall pack-horses[…]compare with Caesar's?”
- To get; to obtain.
“To fill his bags, and richesse to compare.”