comparison

Significat (Anglès)

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
2. (countable, uncountable) An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other.
3. (countable, uncountable) With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.
4. (countable, uncountable) A feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe.
5. (countable, uncountable) That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
6. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable) A simile.
7. (countable, uncountable) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.

Conceptes

comparació

comparança

confrontació

acarament

cotejament

Sinònims

resemblance

contrast

similarity

likeness

simile

collation

comparing

analogy

compare

example

comparability

metaphor

match

parable

similitude

allegory

illustration

check

parallel

equality

antithesis

usage

equivalence

confrontation

juxtaposition

for example

competition

symbol

tantamount

verification

suppose that

comparative relation

and verbal knowledge

affinity

juxtaposition contraposition

analogue

apposition

balance

calibration

checking

collating

conformity

consideration

contest

contrasting

correlation

correspondence

custom

disclosure

equal

Traduccions

comparaison

Vergleich

comparación

paragone

comparação

confronto

comparazione

vergelijking

σύγκριση

Komparation

Steigerung

raffronto

karşılaştırma

mukayese

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/kəmˈpɛɹɪsən/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: comparisoun

In summary

From Middle English comparisoun, from Old French comparison, from Latin comparātiō, from comparātus, perfect passive participle of comparō.