English-Estonian translations for compare

• võrdlema
  Mõned eksperdid on hakanud võrdlema vett naftaga. Some experts are beginning to compare water to oil.
  Peame võrdlema tegelikku kasu tarbijatele ja tegelikke kulusid selle sektori ettevõtetele. We have to compare the real benefits for users with the true costs to businesses in this sector.
  Osseetiat kaldutakse võrdlema Kosovoga, millega ma lihtsalt ei nõustu. There is an intellectual tendency to compare Kosovo to Ossetia, with which I really cannot agree.

Definition of compare

• To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things ["to compare X with Y"]. Having made the comparison of X '''with''Y, one might have found it similar '''to''Y or different '''from''Y
• To declare two things to be similar in some respect ["to compare X to Y"]
• To form the three degrees of comparison of (an adjective
• To be similar (''often used in the negative''
• To get; to obtain
• Comparison
• An instruction or command that compares two values
• Illustration by comparison; simile

Examples

• Compare the tigers coloration with that of the zebra
• You cant compare my problems and yours
• Astronomers have compared comets to dirty snowballs
• We compare "good" as "good", "better", "best
• A sapling and a fully-grown oak tree do not compare

Related words

• compared
• compare apples and oranges
• compare one's self
• compare oneself
• compare against
• compared to
• compared with
• compared anatomy
• as compared