comparison
/kəmˈpæɹ.ɪ.sən/ noun B1- The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared. · to bring a thing into comparison with another· there is no comparison between them
- An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other. · He made a careful comparison of the available products before buying anything.
- With a negation, the state of being similar or alike. · There really is no comparison between the performance of today's computers and those of a decade ago.
- A feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe.
- That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
- A simile.
- The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.
Plural comparisons
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She had a genius for friendship; girl friends she had in plenty; but she had a vague consciousness that masculine friendship might also be a good thing to round out one’s conceptions of companionship and furnish broader standpoints of judgment and comparison.
I assure you that if Darcy were not such a great tall fellow, in comparison with myself, I should not pay him half so much deference.
Wickham appeared, Kitty and Lydia would certainly have continued the occupation; but unluckily no one passed the windows now except a few of the officers, who, in comparison with the stranger, were become “stupid, disagreeable fellows.
Collins was at leisure to look around him and admire, and he was so much struck with the size and furniture of the apartment, that he declared he might almost have supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings; a comparison that did not at first convey much gratification; but when Mrs.
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