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The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= 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.
Not the same; exhibiting a difference.
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* 1971 , William S. Burroughs, , page 6
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=
, volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Various, assorted, diverse.
* 2006 , Delbert S. Elliott et al., Good Kids from Bad Neighborhoods: Successful Development in Social Context , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521863575, page 19:
Distinct, separate; (used for emphasis after numbers and other determiners of quantity).
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=
, title= Unlike most others; unusual.
As a noun comparison
is the act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.As a verb different is
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English
Noun
(en noun)Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.}}
different
English
(wikipedia different)Adjective
(en adjective)- Enter the American tourist. He thinks of himself as a good guy but when he looks in the mirror to shave this good guy he has to admit that "well, other people are different from me and I don't really like them." This makes him feel guilty toward other people.
Ian Sample
Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
- In any case, poor black respondents living in high-poverty neighborhoods are most likely to view their neighborhood as a single block or block group and to use this definition consistently when asked about different neighborhood characteristics and activities.
Charles T. Ambrose
Alzheimer’s Disease, volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}
Usage notes
* (not the same) Depending on dialect, time period, and register, the adjective may be construed with one of the prepositions (from), (to), and (than), or with the subordinating conjunction (than).- Pleasure is different from'''/'''than'''/'''to''' happiness.''
- ''It's different '''than''' ''(or '''''from what'' )'' I expected.