Used in a Sentence

compared

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for compared.

Editorial note

Serving sizes also tend to be much smaller in most parts of Asia, compared to America anyways.

Examples12
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(transitive) To declare two things to be similar in some respect ["to compare X to Y"].

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of compared gathered in one view.

verb

(transitive) To declare two things to be similar in some respect ["to compare X to Y"].

verb

(intransitive) To be similar (often used in the negative).

verb

(transitive, grammar) To form the three degrees of comparison of (an adjective).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for compared.

verb

(transitive) To declare two things to be similar in some respect ["to compare X to Y"].

verb

(intransitive) To be similar (often used in the negative).

verb

(transitive, grammar) To form the three degrees of comparison of (an adjective).

verb

(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.

Example sentences

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Serving sizes also tend to be much smaller in most parts of Asia, compared to America anyways.

2

There's only a handful of really influential companies indexing this data compared to the numbers that produce and distribute it.

3

WriteLine` is also totally unclear as to what it does compared to `puts`, which basically says exactly what it does.

4

These numbers need a bit more data and some unit conversion before they can be compared.

5

Yes, battery electricity is cleaner even if it comes from coal, compared to the energy given by gas in gas-powered cars.

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It can be a shock compared to what you may be used to.

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I'm curious - is there convincing evidence that baby formula is (absorbed-)nutritionally incomplete compared to breast milk?

8

Off the top of my head, syntax checking, fuzzy searching and multicursor options are all perfectly usable but very limited compared to sublime's offerings.

9

That's a very long lifetime compared to say the 5k cycles of the new 7kwh Tesla powerwall, or the 1.5k cycles of the 10kwh version.

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Plus grid-scale storage I think is much easier to recycle compared to consumer storage.

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The gist: spectrum analysis of light that passes through the planet's atmosphere from the system's sun compared to light that doesn't pass through the planet's atmosphere.

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It would have been much nicer if they implemented their algorithm in a framework such as Mitsuba, so that it could be compared with other algorithms.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use compared in a sentence?

Serving sizes also tend to be much smaller in most parts of Asia, compared to America anyways.

What does compared mean?

(transitive) To declare two things to be similar in some respect ["to compare X to Y"].

What part of speech is compared?

compared is commonly used as verb.