comparison noun [C or U] (EXAMINING DIFFERENCES)
by comparison with By comparison with the French, the British eat far less fish.
in comparison with Maxwell and Thorne is tiny in comparison with most other firms in the industry.
comparison noun [C or U] (CONSIDERING SIMILARITIES)
there's no comparison To my mind there's no comparison between the two restaurants (= one is much better than the other).
bear comparison with He's a good writer but he doesn't bear comparison with Shakespeare (= he is not nearly as good as Shakespeare).
Grammar
(Definition of comparison from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
comparison | American Dictionary
comparison noun [C/U] (DIFFERENCE)
comparison noun [C/U] (SIMILARITY)
(Definition of comparison from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of comparison
comparison
I make these comparisons to underline my suggestion to engage such students in learning and ignite their interest in the blues.
Uncontrolled factors affecting light transmission imply that optical density comparisons between different slide preparations are not valid.
However, in both of these comparisons, rate tests did not yield significant rate differences probably because of the short length of most proteins.
All comparisons made were of the treated side (ipsilateral to the bead) and the untreated side (contralateral to the bead).
A ranking system was used to make comparisons of the different methods.
Second, every node of interest must be connected to every other node of interest by an unbroken chain of comparisons.
Will it be the differences, or the similarities, that are most striking, when comparisons come to be made?
The material is too limited to make palaeogeographical comparisons.
The comparisons open a sequence of doors leading in many directions rather than one.
Studies have differed in their definition of the topic, and comparisons between research findings are often difficult and sometimes impossible to make.
They are also primarily based on comparisons between the specialist and generic teams.
Most inferences from animals to the human species are based in anatomical, behavioural, or sociological comparisons.
The argument usually switched in this way from overall comparisons to individual cases, which was one reason why the dispute was so difficult to resolve.
The national comparisons are based on statutory and policy documents and numerous secondary sources.
The extent of genetic divergence among the detected mt genotypes was estimated by pairwise comparisons of nucleotide and inferred amino acid sequences.
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Collocations with comparison
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accurate comparison
Furthermore, accounting for these variations in the degree of adoption allows for a more accurate comparison of the cumulative rejection rates of directives.
basis of comparison
The results appear generalizable, and provide a sound basis of comparison for further work in the field.
between-group comparison
Although the between-group comparison prevents firm conclusions, this reduction apparently does not diminish effects of practice in repeated reading.
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