compare

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Let's compare Google's stats with the rest of the industry .. Oh, wait!

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Quick take

qualities that are comparable; "no comparison between the two books"; "beyond compare"

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noun

qualities that are comparable; "no comparison between the two books"; "beyond compare"

verb

examine and note the similarities or differences of; "John compared his haircut to his friend's"; "We compared notes after we had both seen the movie"

verb

be comparable; "This car does not compare with our line of Mercedes"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for compare.

noun

qualities that are comparable; "no comparison between the two books"; "beyond compare"

verb

examine and note the similarities or differences of; "John compared his haircut to his friend's"; "We compared notes after we had both seen the movie"

verb

be comparable; "This car does not compare with our line of Mercedes"

verb

consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous; "We can compare the Han dynasty to the Romans"; "You cannot equate success in financial matters with greed"

verb

to form the comparative or superlative form on an adjective or adverb

Example sentences

Let's compare Google's stats with the rest of the industry .. Oh, wait!

You compare the battery life, but not the screen to the macbook air?

I really enjoy this campaign because it gave me an excuse to compare it with snake oil labels.

But the candidates we've hired lately compare extremely well to our earlier teams!

Or we could break it down per capita, and compare it to other per-capita things, like income or tax burden.

Maestro's funding is a feeble thing compared to the gargantuan Microsoft Office programming platform: it's a fluffy rabbit versus a T-Rex.

My best guess as to why this is is so that the bot master could track the total number of zombies and compare it to how many were actively connected to the botnet.

There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly.

They aren't standardized and they aren't rigorous so you can't compare candidates on any apples-apples basis and you can't correlate them to job performance to make them more predictive.

" Obviously some sort of FeedBurner bot, but it doesn't have "bot" or "crawler" or "spider" or any other term in there.- How about we just make a "blacklist" of these known bots, look up every user agent, and compare against the blacklist?

People can and ought to be able to unite to form great companies without having to compare notes on how they voted in the last election or some similar matter having nothing whatever to do with whether someone can add value to the venture.

Its shortcomings, particularly around string handling, have been responsible for an appalling fraction of the security holes of the past forty years.- C's tooling is hardly something to brag about, especially compared to its contemporaries like Smalltalk and Lisp.