comparison
Signification (Anglais)
- (countable, uncountable) The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
- (countable, uncountable) An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other.
- (countable, uncountable) With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.
- (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.
- (countable, uncountable) That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
- (countable, rhetoric, uncountable) A simile.
- (countable, uncountable) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.
Concepts
Synonymes
suppose that
comparative relation
and verbal knowledge
juxtaposition contraposition
correspondence
Traductions
Fréquence
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/kəmˈpɛɹɪsən/
Étymologie (Anglais)
In summary
From Middle English comparisoun, from Old French comparison, from Latin comparātiō, from comparātus, perfect passive participle of comparō.
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