Compare vs Construct - 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
Something constructed from parts.
A concept or model.
To build or form (something) by assembling parts.
Similarly, to build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.
* (Marita Sturken)
(geometry) To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric tools and techniques.
As verbs the difference between compare and construct
is that compare is while construct is to build or form (something) by assembling parts.As a noun construct is
something constructed from parts.compare
English
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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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 .
construct
English
Noun
(en noun)- The artwork was a construct of wire and tubes.
- Loops and conditional statements are constructs in computer programming.
- Bohr's theoretical construct of the atom was soon superseded by quantum mechanics.
Synonyms
* (something constructed from parts ): construction * (concept, model ): concept, idea, model, notion, representationVerb
(en verb)- We constructed the radio from spares.
- A sentence may be constructed with a subject, verb and object.
- The Vietnam War films are forms of memory that function to provide collective rememberings, to construct history, and to subsume within them the experience of the veterans.
- Construct a circle that touches each vertex of the given triangle.