different between compare vs construct

English

Alternative forms

• (abbreviations): cp., comp.

Etymology

From Old French comparer, from Latin comparare (“to prepare, procure”), from compar (“like or equal to another”), from com- + par (“equal”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?m?p??/, [k?m?p??], [k?m?p??], [k?m?pe?], [k?m?pe?]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?m?p??/, [k?m?p??], [k?m?p??], [k?m?pe?]
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Verb

compare (third-person singular simple present compares, present participle comparing, simple past and past participle compared)

1. (transitive) 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.
2. (transitive) To declare two things to be similar in some respect ["to compare X to Y"].
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Apophthegms

     Solon compared the people unto the sea, and orators and counsellors to the winds; for that the sea would be calm and quiet if the winds did not trouble it.
3. (transitive, grammar) To form the three degrees of comparison of (an adjective).

4. (intransitive) To be similar (often used in the negative).
5. (obsolete) To get; to obtain.

Related terms

• comparable
• comparative
• comparison
• cf

Translations

Noun

compare (countable and uncountable, plural compares)

1. (uncountable) Comparison.
   • a. 1687, Edmund Waller, To my Worth Friend Sir Thomas Higgons

     Their small galleys may not hold compare with our tall ships.

2. (countable, programming) An instruction or command that compares two values.
   • 1998, IEEE, International Conference on Computer Design: Proceedings (page 490)

     […] including addition and subtraction, memory operations, compares, shifts, logic operations, and condition operations.

   • 2013, Paolo Bruni, Carlos Alberto Gomes da Silva Junior, Craig McKellar, Managing DB2 for z/OS Utilities with DB2 Tools Solution Packs

     It is always advisable to run a compare between your source and target environments. This should highlight whether there are differences in the lengths of VARCHARs and then the differences can be corrected before you clone.

3. (uncountable, obsolete) Illustration by comparison; simile.

See also

• contrast

Anagrams

• compear, pomerac, precoma

Asturian

Verb

compare

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of comparar

French

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?

Verb

compare

1. inflection of comparer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kom?pa.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: com?pà?re

Etymology 1

From Late Latin compatrem, accusative of compater, from Latin com- (“together”) + pater (“father”), whence also padre. Cognate to Neapolitan cumpà, Sicilian cumpari; see more at compater.

Noun

compare m (plural compari, feminine comare)

1. A child's godfather in relation to their parents: a co-father; or a child's father in relation to their co-father and his family.

   Synonym: padrino

2. (extensively) A male wedding witness or best man in relation to the spouses, or a bridegroom in relation to his wedding witness.

   Synonyms: testimone, testimone di nozze

3. (extensively) A way of addressing an old male friend.

   Synonym: amico

4. (extensively, derogatory) accomplice

   Synonym: complice

Derived terms

• comparaggio
• comparatico

Related terms

• pare

See also

• comare

Etymology 2

Verb

compare

1. third-person singular present indicative of comparire

   Synonym: comparisce

Anagrams

• camperò
• compera

Latin

Verb

comp?r?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of comp?re?

Portuguese

Verb

compare

1. inflection of comparar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kom?pare]

Verb

compare

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of compara
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of compara

Spanish

Verb

compare

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of comparar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of comparar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of comparar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of comparar.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin constructus, from construo (“I heap together, build, make, construct, connect grammatically”), from com- (“together”) + struo (“I heap up, pile”). Doublet of construe.

Pronunciation

Noun

• (UK) enPR: k?n'str?kt, IPA^(key): /?k?n.st??kt/
• (US) enPR: kän'str?kt, IPA^(key): /?k?n.st??kt/

Verb

• (UK, US) enPR: k?n-str?kt', IPA^(key): /k?n?st??kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

construct (plural constructs)

1. Something constructed from parts.

2. A concept or model.

3. (genetics) A segment of nucleic acid, created artificially, for transplantation into a target cell or tissue.

Synonyms

• (something constructed from parts): construction
• (concept, model): concept, idea, model, notion, representation

Related terms

Translations

Verb

construct (third-person singular simple present constructs, present participle constructing, simple past and past participle constructed)

1. (transitive) To build or form (something) by assembling parts.

2. (transitive) To build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.
   • 1997, Marita Sturken, Tangled Memories

     The Vietnam War films are forms of memory that function to provide collective rememberings, to construct history, and to subsume within them the experience of the veterans.

3. (transitive, geometry) To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric tools and techniques.

Synonyms

• (build or form by assembling parts'): assemble, build, form, make, produce, put together
• (build (a sentence or argument)): form
• (draw (a geometric figure)):

Antonyms

• (build or form by assembling parts): destroy, disassemble, dismantle, ruin, wreck, take apart

Derived terms

• deconstruct
• overconstruct
• reconstruct
• unconstruct

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• construct in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• construct in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• construct at OneLook Dictionary Search