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conj.
A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective case, and than is then considered by some grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed in a sentence, usually introduced by that; as, I would rather suffer than that you should want.
n.
The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison.
n.
The state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them.
n.
The act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile.
a.
Of that kind; of the like kind; like; resembling; similar; as, we never saw such a day; -- followed by that or as introducing the word or proposition which defines the similarity, or the standard of comparison; as, the books are not such that I can recommend them, or, not such as I can recommend; these apples are not such as those we saw yesterday; give your children such precepts as tend to make them better.
n.
A body of cavarly comparising two companies or troops, and averging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred men.
a.
Characterized by, or addicted to, ratiocination; consisting in the comparison of propositions or facts, and the deduction of inferences from the comparison; argumentative; as, a ratiocinative process.
adv.
In like manner or degree; in the same way; thus; for like reason; whith equal reason; -- used correlatively, following as, to denote comparison or resemblance; sometimes, also, following inasmuch as.
n.
A specific gravity bottle; a standard flask for measuring and comparing the densities of liquids.
n.
The science or art of comparing or measuring degrees of moisture.
prep.
To denote association in thought, as for comparison or contrast.
n.
A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.
n.
The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate.
a.
Being, affording, or according with, a standard for comparison and judgment; as, standard time; standard weights and measures; a standard authority as to nautical terms; standard gold or silver.
prep.
Comparison; as, three is to nine as nine is to twenty-seven; it is ten to one that you will offend him.
v. t.
To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
superl.
Occupying an inferior position or place; not high or elevated; depressed in comparison with something else; as, low ground; a low flight.
n.
A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.
superl.
Not elevated or sublime; not exalted or diction; as, a low comparison.
n.
An instrument for measuring or comparing the intensites of the colors of the spectrum.
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