Слово англійською: compare

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compare

verb
/kəmˈper/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they compare
/kəmˈper/
he / she / it compares
/kəmˈperz/
past simple compared
/kəmˈperd/
past participle compared
/kəmˈperd/
-ing form comparing
/kəmˈperɪŋ/
  1. (abbreviation cf., cp.)
    [transitive] to examine people or things to see how they are similar and how they are different
    • compare A and B It is interesting to compare their situation and ours.
    • We compared the two reports carefully.
    • Online grocery shopping allows you to compare prices more easily.
    • How can you compare the two things? They are so different!
    • Compare and contrast the characters of Jack and Ralph.
    • compare A with/to B We compared the results of our study with those of other studies.
    • My own problems seem insignificant compared with other people's.
    • I've had some difficulties, but they were nothing compared to yours (= they were not nearly as bad as yours).
    • Standards in healthcare have improved enormously compared to 40 years ago.
    • They receive just over three years of schooling, compared to a national average of 7.3.
    • an increase of over 11% compared to the same period last year
    • About a third of American adults are obese compared with 24 per cent of Britons
    Language Bank contrastcontrastHighlighting differences
      • This survey highlights a number of differences in the way that teenage boys and girls in the UK spend their free time.
      • One of the main differences between the girls and the boys who took part in the research was the way in which they use the internet.
      • Unlike the girls, who use the internet mainly to keep in touch with friends, the boys questioned in this survey tend to use the internet for playing computer games.
      • The girls differ from the boys in that they tend to spend more time keeping in touch with friends on the phone or on social networking websites.
      • Compared to the boys, the girls spend much more time chatting to friends on the phone.
      • On average the girls spend four hours a week chatting to friends on the phone. In contrast, very few of the boys spend more than five minutes a day talking to their friends in this way.
      • The boys prefer competitive sports and computer games, whereas/while the girls seem to enjoy more cooperative activities, such as shopping with friends.
      • When the girls go shopping, they mainly buy clothes and cosmetics. The boys, on the other hand, tend to purchase computer games or gadgets.
    Language Bank illustrateillustrateReferring to a chart, graph or table
      • This bar chart illustrates how many journeys people made on public transport over a three-month period.
      • This table compares bus, train and taxi use between April and June.
      • The results are shown in the chart below.
      • In this pie chart, the survey results are broken down by age.
      • This pie chart breaks down the survey results by age.
      • As can be seen from these results, younger people use buses more than older people.
      • According to these figures, bus travel accounts for 60 per cent of public transport use.
      • From the data in the above graph, it is apparent that buses are the most widely used form of public transport.
  2. [intransitive] compare with/to somebody/something to be similar to somebody/something else, either better or worse
    • This school compares with the best in the country (= it is as good as them).
    • This house doesn't compare with our previous one (= it is not as good).
    • Their prices compare favourably to those of their competitors.
    • The region's wines compare well with those from elsewhere in Germany.
  3. [transitive] compare A to B to show or state that somebody/something is similar to somebody/something else
    • The critics compared his work to that of Martin Amis.
    • In her early career she was often compared to Ella Fitzgerald.
    • Some observers compare the situation to that of the early 1980s.
    4. Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French comparer, from Latin comparare, from compar ‘like, equal’, from com- ‘with’ + par ‘equal’.
Idioms
compare notes (with somebody)
  1. if two or more people compare notes, they each say what they think about the same event, situation, etc.
    • We saw the play separately and compared notes afterwards.
    • Let's compare notes on our experiences.
you can’t compare apples and oranges
  1. (North American English) it is impossible to say that one thing is better than another if the two are completely different
    • They are both great but you can't compare apples and oranges.
    • No, you’re trying to compare apples and oranges.
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