Definition of Comparison

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Comparison

The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate.

The state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them.

That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.

The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison.

A figure by which one person or thing is compared to another, or the two are considered with regard to some property or quality, which is common to them both; e.g., the lake sparkled like a jewel.

The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.

To compare.

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Comparison Quotations

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
Mohandas Gandhi

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore Roosevelt

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
Karl Marx

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
Jerry Garcia

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
Milton Friedman

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Francis Bacon

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.
John McCain

Comparison Translations

comparison in Afrikaans is vergelyking
comparison in Danish is sammenligning
comparison in Dutch is vergelijking
comparison in French is comparaison
comparison in German is Vergleich
comparison in Italian is confronto

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