Smile vs Comparison - What's the difference?
smile | comparison |
A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement or anxiety.
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile? ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
(ambitransitive) To have (a smile) on one's face.
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, title= To express by smiling.
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, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}
To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness.
* Byron
To look cheerful and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy.
* Alexander Pope
To be propitious or favourable; to countenance.
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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*: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.
As nouns the difference between smile and comparison
is that smile is a facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement or anxiety while comparison is the act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.As a verb smile
is to have (a smile) on one's face.smile
English
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(en noun)Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* archaic smile * besmile * Chelsea smile * Glasgow smile * smileless * smilet * smiley * vertical smileVerb
(smil)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}
- When last I saw thy young blue eyes, they smiled .
- The sun smiled down from a clear summer sky.
- The desert smiled , / And paradise was opened in the wild.
- The gods smiled on his labours.
Derived terms
* smilerStatistics
*Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----comparison
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(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.}}