compare
/kəmˈpɛɚ/ verbe A2En français : comparer
- 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.
- 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.
Pluriel compare · He/she/it compares · Prétérit compared · Participe passé compared · Forme en -ing comparing
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- compare
- He/she/it
- compares
- Prétérit
- compared
- Participe passé
- compared
- Forme en -ing
- comparing
Dans la bibliothèque
He had, as I understand, some sort of map or chart which he was comparing with the manuscript, and which he thrust into his pocket when you appeared.’
Diana and I make necklaces of roseberries but what are roseberries compared to amethysts?
Anyhow, Friend Porlock is evidently scared out of his senses—kindly compare the writing in the note to that upon its envelope; which was done, he tells us, before this ill-omened visit.
This was a small matter, however, compared with her conduct to her own child, a dear boy just under one year of age.
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