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compare
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)
- (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.
- (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.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Apophthegms
- (transitive, grammar) To form the three degrees of comparison of (an adjective).
- (intransitive) To be similar (often used in the negative).
- (obsolete) To get; to obtain.
Related terms
- comparable
- comparative
- comparison
- cf
Translations
Noun
compare (countable and uncountable, plural compares)
- (uncountable) Comparison.
- a. 1687, Edmund Waller, To my Worth Friend Sir Thomas Higgons
- Their small galleys may not hold compare with our tall ships.
- a. 1687, Edmund Waller, To my Worth Friend Sir Thomas Higgons
- (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.
- 1998, IEEE, International Conference on Computer Design: Proceedings (page 490)
- (uncountable, obsolete) Illustration by comparison; simile.
See also
- contrast
Anagrams
- compear, pomerac, precoma
Asturian
Verb
compare
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive of comparar
French
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?
Verb
compare
- inflection of comparer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 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)
- 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
- (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
- (extensively) A way of addressing an old male friend.
- Synonym: amico
- (extensively, derogatory) accomplice
- Synonym: complice
Derived terms
- comparaggio
- comparatico
Related terms
- pare
See also
- comare
Etymology 2
Verb
compare
- third-person singular present indicative of comparire
- Synonym: comparisce
Anagrams
- camperò
- compera
Latin
Verb
comp?r?
- second-person singular present active imperative of comp?re?
Portuguese
Verb
compare
- inflection of comparar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kom?pare]
Verb
compare
- third-person singular present subjunctive of compara
- third-person plural present subjunctive of compara
Spanish
Verb
compare
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of comparar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of comparar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of comparar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of comparar.
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criterion
English
Alternative forms
- criteria (nonstandard)
- criterium
Etymology
From New Latin criterion, from Ancient Greek ????????? (krit?rion, “a test, a means of judging”), from ?????? (krit?s, “judge”), from ????? (krín?, “to judge”); see critic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?a??t???i.?n/, /k???t???i.?n/
- Rhymes: -??i?n
Noun
criterion (plural criteria)
- A standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.
Usage notes
- The plural form criterions also exists, but is much less common.
- The form criteria is sometimes used as a nonstandard singular form (as in a criteria, this criteria, and so on), with corresponding plural form criterias. In this use, it sometimes means “a single criterion”, sometimes “a set of criteria”.
Related terms
- criterial
- crisis
- critic
- criticize
- critical
Translations
Further reading
- criterion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- criterion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- tricerion
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????????? (krit?rion).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kri?te.ri.on/, [k???t???i?n]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kri?te.ri.on/, [k?i?t????i?n]
Noun
criterion n (genitive criteri?); second declension
- criterion
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).
Descendants
- ? Catalan: criteri
- ? Dutch: criterium
- ? English: criterion
- ? German: Kriterium
- ? Italian: criterio
- ? Spanish: criterio
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