Beyond compare

Definition

compare /kǝm'peǝ(r)/ v ၁။ ~ A and B; ~ A with/to B ႏိႈင္း ယွဥ္သည္။ ႏိႈင္းယွဥ္ၾကည့္သည္။ Compare (the style of) the two poems. ❍ If you compare her work with his/If you compare their work, you'll find hers is much better. ❍ Compared to many people she's quite rich. See also CF ၂။ ~ A to B ခိုင္းႏိႈင္းသည္။ ႏိႈင္းသည္။ Poets have compared sleep to death. ၃။ ~ with sb/sth ႏိႈင္းယွဥ္ႏိုင္သည္။ ယွဥ္ႏိုင္ေျခရိွသည္။ This cannot compare with that (ie No comparison is possible because they are so different). ❍ He cannot compare with (ie is not nearly as great as) Shakespeare as a writer of tragedies. ❍ Our prices compare very favourably with those of our competitors. ❏ beyond compare [ IDM ] ( fml ) ၿပိဳင္ဘက္ကင္းသည္။ ၿပိဳင္စံမေပၚ။ တုႏိႈင္းမမီ။ a diamond beyond compare in its beauty. ❏ compare notes (with sb) [ IDM ] အျမင္ဖလွယ္သည္။ We saw the play separately and compared notes afterwards.

Examples

1. [compare something with/to something] : Just compare the one that has been cleaned with the others.
2. The results are then compared to the results of previous studies.
3. [compare and contrast] : The research aims to compare and contrast policies in British
4. American
5. and Japanese firms.
6. [compare with] : How does the UK’s performance compare with that of other European countries?
7. [compare favourably/unfavourably/well] : About 2.5% of Scottish land is registered organic: that compares very favourably with the European average.
8. [something doesn’t compare (with something)] : It’s a good university
9. but its architecture doesn’t compare with that of the older institutions.
10. [compare something to something] : The band has been compared to the Beatles.