0 present participle of compare
1 to examine or look for the difference between two or more things:
If you compare house prices in the two areas, it's quite amazing how different they are.
That seems expensive - have you compared prices in other shops?
Compare some recent work with your older stuff and you'll see how much you've improved.
Children seem to learn more interesting things compared to/with when we were at school.
2 to judge, suggest, or consider that something is similar or of equal quality to something else:
Still only 25, she has been compared to the greatest dancer of all time.
People compared her to Elizabeth Taylor.
You can't compare the two cities - they're totally different.
Instant coffee just doesn't compare with freshly ground coffee.
The hotel certainly compared favourably with the one we stayed in last year.
If you compare the two books side by side, it is clear that the author of the second has plagiarized (from the first).
The number of people who applied for the course was 120 compared with an initial estimate of between 50 and 100.
I thought myself very sophisticated compared with my relatives in the country.
This matter really isn't very important if you compare it to the other problems we've got to deal with.
The judges compared all the cakes in the cake competition for taste, texture, colour and general appearance.
In all cases, these long-term experiments, whether comparing organic to conventional systems, or comparing more than one organic system, are particularly useful demonstration tools.
In contrast, when comparing the maps for topic 5 it seems that the minutes give an accurate account of the discussions that took place.
Comparing personal trajectories and drawing causal inferences from longitudinal data.
