comparison
名词 n.
英 /kəmˈpæɹ.ɪ.sən/
美 /kəmˈpæɹ.ɪ.sən/|/kəmˈpæɹ.ɪ.sən/
英文释义
名词 n.
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The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
— to bring a thing into comparison with another
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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.
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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.
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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.
— In English, adjectives and adverbs have three forms when making a comparison: the plain form "hot", the comparative form "hotter", and the superlative form "hottest".
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That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
— Whereto shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what comparison shall we compare it?
- A simile.
- The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.
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beyond comparison
by comparison
comparing and contrasting
comparison is the thief of joy
comparisonitis
comparison operator
comparisons are odious
comparison shop
comparison-shop
comparison shopper
comparison shopping
comparison-shopping
comparisonwise
degree of comparison
in comparison
intercomparison
limit comparison test
megalocomparison
multicomparison
no comparison
pale by comparison
pale in comparison
recomparison
standard of comparison
suffer by comparison
词源
From Middle English comparisoun, from Old French comparison, from Latin comparātiō, from comparātus, perfect passive participle of comparō.
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