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語源

From 中期英語 comparen, from Old French comparer, from Latin comparare (“to prepare, procure”), from compar (“like or equal to another”), from com- + par (“equal”). Displaced native 古期英語 metan (“to compare,” also “to measure”).

発音

• (General American) IPA: /kəmˈpɛɚ/, [kəmˈpɛɚ], [kəmˈpɛɹ], [kəmˈpeɚ], [kəmˈpeɹ]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kəmˈpɛə/, [kəmˈpɛː], [kəmˈpɛə], [kəmˈpeə]
• 韻: -ɛə(ɹ)

動詞

compare (third-person singular simple present compares, present participle comparing, simple past and past participle compared)

1. (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.

   Synonyms: set against, weigh against, collate

   Compare the tiger's coloration with that of the zebra.

   You can't compare my problems and yours.

   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.

   • 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:

     Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.

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

   Synonym: liken

   Astronomers have compared comets to dirty snowballs.

   • 1625, Francis [Bacon], Apophthegmes New and Old. […], London: […] Hanna Barret, and Richard Whittaker, […], →OCLC:

     Solon compared the people unto the sea, and orators and counsellors to the winds; for that the sea would be calm and quiet if the winds did not trouble it.

   • 1963, C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2nd Revised edition, page 24:

     And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved. The authors were compared to doctors who offered to a patient nothing more than invectives against the disease which consumed him.

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

   We compare "good" as "good", "better", "best".

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

   A sapling and a fully-grown oak tree do not compare.

   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

     Shall pack-horses […] compare with Caesar's?

5. (obsolete) To get; to obtain.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 28:

     To fill his bags, and richesse to compare.

Conjugation

派生語

関連する語

• comparand, comparandum
• comparative
• comparison
• cf

名詞

compare (countable and uncountable, plural compares)

1. (uncountable) Comparison.
   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 38, line 557:

     His mighty Champion, ſtrong above compare,

   • a. 1687, Edmund Waller, To my Worth Friend Sir Thomas Higgons:

     Their small galleys may not hold compare with our tall ships.

2. (countable, programming) An instruction or command that compares two values or states.
   • 1998, International Conference on Computer Design: Proceedings, IEEE, page 490:

     […] including addition and subtraction, memory operations, compares, shifts, logic operations, and condition operations.

   • 2013, Paolo Bruni, Carlos Alberto Gomes da Silva Junior, Craig McKellar, Managing DB2 for z/OS Utilities with DB2 Tools Solution Packs

     It is always advisable to run a compare between your source and target environments. This should highlight whether there are differences in the lengths of VARCHARs and then the differences can be corrected before you clone.

3. (uncountable, obsolete) Illustration by comparison; simile.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     Rhymes full of protest, of oath, and big compare.

派生語

参考

• contrast

参照

• “compare”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• compear, pomerac, precoma