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Word Meanings - COMPARATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of two things compared together.

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  • COMPARATIVELY
    According to estimate made by comparison; relatively; not positively or absolutely. With but comparatively few exceptions. Prescott.
  • COMPARE
    To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of one syllable are compared by affixing "-er" and "-est" to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those
  • COMPARTMENT
    One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads. (more info) 1. One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or
  • COMPARER
    One who compares.
  • COMPARISON
    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. (more info) 1. The act of comparing; an examination of two or more
  • COMPARTNER
    See COPARTNER
  • COMPARATION
    A making ready; provision.
  • COMPARABLE
    Capable of being compared; worthy of comparison. There is no blessing of life comparable to the enjoyment of a discreet and virtuous friend. Addison. -- Com"pa*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Com"pa*ra*bly, adv.
  • COMPARATIVE
    Expressing a degree greater or less than the positive degree of the quality denoted by an adjective or adverb. The comparative degree is formed from the positive by the use of -er, more, or less; as, brighter, more bright, or less bright.
  • COMPARTITION
    The act of dividing into parts or compartments; division; also, a division or compartment. Their temples . . . needed no compartitions. Sir H. Wotton.
  • TOGETHER
    togædre, togadere; to to + gador together. *29. See To, prep., and 1. In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town. Soldiers can
  • COMPART
    To divide; to mark out into parts or subdivisions. The crystal surface is comparted all In niches verged with rubies. Glover.
  • COMPARATOR
    An instrument or machine for comparing anything to be measured with a standard measure; -- applied especially to a machine for comparing standards of length.
  • COMPARATE
    One of two things compared together.
  • INTERCOMPARISON
    Mutual comparison of corresponding parts.
  • INCOMPARED
    Peerless; incomparable. Spenser.
  • INCOMPARABLE
    Not comparable; admitting of no comparison with others; unapproachably eminent; without a peer or equal; matchless; peerless; transcendent. A merchant of incomparable wealth. Shak. A new hypothesis . . . which hath the incomparable Sir Isaac Newton
  • ALTOGETHER
    1. All together; conjointly. Altogether they wenChaucer. 2. Without exception; wholly; completely. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5.

 

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