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Comparative :: Comparative (a.) Proceeding from, or by the method of, comparison; as, the comparative sciences; the comparative anatomy..

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

Contrast :: Contrast (n.) The act of contrasting, or the state of being contrasted; comparison by contrariety of qualities..

Comparison :: Comparison (n.) The state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them..

Estimate :: Estimate (v. t.) To from an opinion of, as to amount,, number, etc., from imperfect data, comparison, or experience; to make an estimate of; to calculate roughly; to rate; as, to estimate the cost of a trip, the number of feet in a piece of land..

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

Dissimile :: Dissimile (n.) Comparison or illustration by contraries.

Low :: Low (superl.) Occupying an inferior position or place; not high or elevated; depressed in comparison with something else; as, low ground; a low flight..

Contrast :: Contrast (n.) Opposition or dissimilitude of things or qualities; unlikeness, esp. as shown by juxtaposition or comparison..

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.

Equate :: Equate (v. t.) To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison; to reduce to mean time or motion; as, to equate payments; to equate lines of railroad for grades or curves; equated distances..

Judgment :: "Judgment (v. i.) That act of the mind by which two notions or ideas which are apprehended as distinct are compared for the purpose of ascertaining their agreement or disagreement. See 1. The comparison may be threefold: (1) Of individual objects forming a concept. (2) Of concepts giving what is technically called a judgment. (3) Of two judgments giving an inference. Judgments have been further classed as analytic, synthetic, and identical..

Incomparable :: Incomparable (a.) Not comparable; admitting of no comparison with others; unapproachably eminent; without a peer or equal; matchless; peerless; transcendent.

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

Comparative :: Comparative (a.) Estimated by comparison; relative; not positive or absolute, as compared with another thing or state..

Touch-needle :: Touch-needle (n.) A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone..

Comparatively :: Comparatively (adv.) According to estimate made by comparison; relatively; not positively or absolutely.

Comparison :: Comparison (n.) The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of 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.

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..

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