Compare vs Comb - What's the difference?
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(label) 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.
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, title= (label) To declare two things to be similar in some respect ["to compare X to Y"].
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
To form the three degrees of comparison of (an adjective).
(label) To be similar (often used in the negative ).
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To get; to obtain.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
comparison
* Milton
* Waller
illustration by comparison; simile
* Shakespeare
A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
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*:There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;.
A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
*1882 , James Edwin (Thorold Rogers), ,
*:But the comb or half quarter is very general in the Eastern counties, particularly in Norfolk.
The top part of a gun’s stock.
The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
(music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions.
The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
(weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
(especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a .
To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
(nautical) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
As verbs the difference between compare and comb
is that compare is while comb is (especially of hair or fur) to groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a.As a noun comb is
a toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place or comb can be (abbreviation) combination.compare
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Verb
(compar)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=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.}}
Katie L. Burke
In the News, volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=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.}}
- 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.
- Shall pack horsescompare with Caesar's?
- To fill his bags, and richesse to compare .
See also
* contrastNoun
(-)- His mighty champion, strong beyond compare .
- Their small galleys may not hold compare with our tall ships.
- Rhymes full of protest, of oath, and big compare .
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(Wikipedia)Noun
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