Noun

(en noun)

The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.

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An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each-other.

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* (1800-1859)

*:As sharp legal practitioners, no class of human beings can bear comparison with them.

*(Richard Chenevix Trench) (1807-1886)

*:The miracles of our Lord and those of the Old Testament afford many interesting points of comparison .

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*:"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve."

With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.

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(label) The ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees, as in hot, hotter, hottest .

That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.

*(Bible), (w) iv. 30

*:Whereto shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what comparison shall we compare it?

(label) A simile.

(label) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.

Noun

(uncountable) The act of connecting.

The point at which two or more things are connected.

the connection between overeating and obesity

My headache has no connection with me going out last night.

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A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.

As we were the only people in the room to laugh at the joke, I felt a connection between us.

An established communications or transportation link.

computers linked by a network connection

I was talking to him, but there was lightning and we lost the connection .

(transport) A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service

The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train.

A kinship relationship between people.