Compare vs Compel - 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
(transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up (rfex)
To overpower; to subdue.
* 1917 , , King Coal , ch. 16,
To force, constrain or coerce.
* 1600 , , Julius Caesar , act 5, sc. 1,
* Hallam
To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.
* Shakespeare
* 1912 , , Sky Island , ch. 14,
(obsolete) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
* Dryden
* Tennyson
(obsolete) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To call forth; to summon.
* Spenser
In transitive terms the difference between compare and compel
is that compare is to declare two things to be similar in some respect ["to compare X to Y"] while compel is to exact, extort, (make) produce by force.In obsolete terms the difference between compare and compel
is that compare is to get; to obtain while compel is to call forth; to summon.As a noun compare
is comparison.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.}}
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- 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 .
compel
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Verb
- She had one of those perfect faces, which irresistibly compel the soul of a man.
- Logic compels''' the wise, while fools feel '''compelled by emotions.
- Against my will, / As Pompey was, am I compell’d to set / Upon one battle all our liberties.
- Wolsey compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once.
- Commissions, which compel from each / The sixth part of his substance.
- The Queen has nothing but the power to execute the laws, to adjust grievances and to compel order.
- Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled .
- I compel all creatures to my will.
- in one troop compelled
- She had this knight from far compelled .
- (Chapman)