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compare English

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Definitions in simple English

compare

If you compare two things, you look at, talk about, or think about how they are the same and how they are different. I compared all different kinds of computers before buying this one. Compared to the sun, the moon is quite small.

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 be comparable This car does not compare with our line of Mercedes (= 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 to form the comparative or superlative form on an adjective or adverb (= comparison) qualities that are comparable no comparison between the two books beyond compare

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Simple sentences

Compare your translation with his.
Many poets compare death to sleep.
You can't even begin to compare with Tom.
Compare your answers with the teacher's.
Compare your answer with Tom's.
Compare your translation with the one on the blackboard.
Compare your sentence with the one on the blackboard.
People sometimes compare death to sleep.
Compare the style of those three letters.
Compare the style of those letters.
In this paper, I compare the folklores of Germany and Holland.
We compare life to a journey.

Movie subtitles

Compare that with China, with its one monolithic empire.
One of them opens his umbrella to compare its size with the mushroom, but the umbrella suddenly takes root and transforming itself into a mushroom starts growing attaining gigantic proportions.
Of course, it doesn't compare with this coliseum of yours.
Yes. Then let me tell you, Venice can't compare with Constantinople.
But it cannot compare with Pisthyan.
I compare my life to yours.
They are not treated with our new method to allow us compare the achieved results.
I can only compare you to an orchid of Zanzibar.
Even in the same dress, you couldn't compare.
You'll have a chance to compare our styles.
Drip, drip, drop Little April shower What can compare With your beautiful sound?
We'll compare notes in the morning.
Don't compare a man to the Lord.
Oh. that place doesn't compare with this.
I'll thank you not to compare me to that piece of junk.
We'll compare smells.
Don't compare her to Madame.
Now just compare them coolly, without prejudice.
My government may wish to compare them with their own.
You have the effrontery to compare yourself with William Allen White?
But Hans, I would not compare you to him. He is a real poet.
If you compare them.
And, if nothing else exists, there is nothing left with which to compare it.
You'd scarcely compare them with the Sioux, captain.
You can't even compare them.
Then let me tell you, Venice can't compare with Constantinople.
You can't compare her to Madame.
What can compare With your beautiful sound?
Then you and I'd both be old ladies and we could compare notes.
That is, if you had any to compare.
If you compare it with Strindberg.
Dear God, why always compare things?
Look at the numbers now and compare them.
There's nothing to compare you with.
What's a roulette wheel got can compare to that?
When you dance, you can compare.

News and current affairs

Rarely has a small country been represented by a statesman of such world stature: only Thomas Masaryk and Jan Smuts come to mind to compare with him.
As we know from other contexts, adjustment to newcomers is not easy: compare, say, the reaction to the tie-up between France's Alcatel and America's Lucent to the bids by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation for Chevron or Mittal for Acelor.
Compare Argentina with another grain exporter, Australia, which has been hit by some of the same shocks.
Compare this to smarter technological solutions.
But, rather than picking facts and stories to fit some grand narrative of decline or progress, we should try to compare across all areas of human existence to see if the world really is doing better or worse.
The Sistine Chapel cannot compare with it - most children will become bored after ten minutes by the frescoes of Michelangelo, but will watch a detergent commercial with riveted interest.
This project provides a sound basis on which to measure and compare different uses of scarce resources.
We constantly compare our lot with that of others, feeling either superior or inferior, whatever our income level; well-being depends more on how the fruits of growth are distributed than on their absolute amount.
Compare this situation to the drama 60 years ago.
That's why some commentators, inflaming the tensions, speak of barbarians at the gates and compare Europe's situation to the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire.
As growth and development in emerging economies like China continues, people will increasingly compare themselves to the richer people in their countries' urban centers.
These countries' successful people will increasingly compare themselves to people in other countries who are perceived as even more successful.
As politicians in the West compare him to Mugabe or Mussolini, Putin's Kremlin aides invoke the Munich appeasers who tried to push Hitler eastward.
Simple computer programs can compare two or more strings of these units and evaluate degrees of similarity, search huge databases to match new sequences against known ones, and cluster groups of sequences in the form of a family tree.
Given this, it would seem wrong, if not dangerous, to compare Tunisia and its Jasmine Revolution to other national contexts in the region.
To compare median household incomes over time, the authorities divide these annual dollar values by the consumer price index to create annual real median household incomes.
For some traits, we do not have to speculate - we can measure and compare on the basis of studies covering thousands of individuals over several generations.
Moreover, it is erroneous to compare the present with the late 1990's.
Yet if we compare ourselves to the more exclusive group of developed countries, the truth is that we still have much to learn from them.
What would be the strength of such a system if and when it is developed, and how will it compare with that of the US?
Anyone seeking to compare a public-service job with the private sector in negotiating an employment contract should simply seek work in the private sector rather than for the public good.
Translating all these demands into a common unit of physical area gives us an opportunity to compare it with Earth's productive area - and thus to get a sense of how sustainable we are.
They frequently compare the eurozone favorably to other developed economies.
Germany's credit rating would not be endangered, because Eurobonds would compare favorably with bonds issued by other major countries.
Some compare the Iranian regime to Nazi Germany.
It is more difficult to compare the reduction of suffering brought about by correcting a facial deformity with saving a life.
Globalization has fueled ever-widening disparities among its members - just compare Colombia with Afghanistan, or Chile with Sudan - that make it difficult to transform sheer numbers into coherent influence.

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