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Anything :: Anything (n.) Expressing an indefinite comparison; -- with as or like.

Intercomparison :: Intercomparison (n.) Mutual comparison of corresponding parts.

Reason :: Reason (n.) To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts.

Comparison :: Comparison (n.) The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate.

Degree :: Degree (n.) One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison..

Judgment :: Judgment (v. i.) That power or faculty by which knowledge dependent upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See 2.

Flection :: Flection (n.) The variation of words by declension, comparison, or conjugation; inflection..

Conference :: Conference (n.) The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.

Comparable :: Comparable (a.) Capable of being compared; worthy of comparison.

Compare :: Compare (n.) Comparison.

Disparage :: Disparage (v. t.) To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.

To :: To (prep.) Comparison; as, three is to nine as nine is to twenty-seven; it is ten to one that you will offend him..

Likeness :: Likeness (n.) A comparison; parable; proverb.

Comparative :: Comparative (n.) One who makes comparisons; one who affects wit.

Positivism :: Positivism (n.) A system of philosophy originated by M. Auguste Comte, which deals only with positives. It excludes from philosophy everything but the natural phenomena or properties of knowable things, together with their invariable relations of coexistence and succession, as occurring in time and space. Such relations are denominated laws, which are to be discovered by observation, experiment, and comparison. This philosophy holds all inquiry into causes, both efficient and final, to be useles

Colorimeter :: Colorimeter (n.) An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid..

Clod :: Clod (n.) That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul..

Compare :: Compare (v. t.) To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of one syllable are compared by affixing - er and -est to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those of more than one syllable are usually compared by prefixing more and most, or less and least, to the positive; as, beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful..

Compare :: Compare (n.) Illustration by comparison; simile.

With :: With (prep.) To denote association in thought, as for comparison or contrast..

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