(v. t.) To examine the character or qualities of, as of two or more persons or things, for the purpose of discovering their resemblances or differences; to bring into comparison; to regard with discriminating attention.
(v. t.) To represent as similar, for the purpose of illustration; to liken.
(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.
(v. i.) To be like or equal; to admit, or be worthy of, comparison; as, his later work does not compare with his earlier.
(v. i.) To vie; to assume a likeness or equality.
(n.) Comparison.
(n.) Illustration by comparison; simile.
(v. t.) To get; to procure; to obtain; to acquire
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, arteries which were exposed to CO showed a higher uptake of cholesterol as compared to their corresponding control.
(2) Disease stabilisation was associated with prolonged periods of comparatively high plasma levels of drug, which appeared to be determined primarily by reduced drug clearance.
(3) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(4) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(5) This study compares the mortality of U.S. white males with that of Swedish males who have had the highest reported male life expectancies in the world since the early 1960s.
(6) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
(7) The ability of azelastine to influence antigen-induced contractile responses (Schultz-Dale phenomenon) in isolated tracheal segments of the guinea-pig was investigated and compared with selected antiallergic drugs and inhibitors of arachidonic acid metabolism.
(8) The 1989 results were compared with those of a similar survey performed in 1986.
(9) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.
(10) These lysates are comparable to those of Escherichia coli in transcriptional and translational fidelity and efficiency in response to a given template DNA.
(11) The cumulative incidence of grade II and III acute GVHD in the 'low dose' cyclosporin group was 42% compared to 51% in the 'standard dose' group (P = 0.60).
(12) The procedure was used on 71 occasions, and in each case a clinical diagnosis was made and compared with the cytological diagnosis made independently by a pathologist.
(13) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
(14) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
(15) Collagen production of rapidly thawed ligaments was studied by proline incubation at 1 day, 9 days, or 6 weeks after freezing and was compared with that of contralateral fresh controls.
(16) This study compared the non-invasive vascular profiles, coagulation tests, and rheological profiles of 46 consecutive cases of low-tension glaucoma with 69 similarly unselected cases of high-tension glaucoma and 47 age-matched controls.
(17) Needle acupuncture did, however, increase the pain threshold compared with the initial value (alpha = 0.1%).
(18) Yields of Thiobacillus dentrificans on different substrates were compared.
(19) The effects of hormonal promotion of T24-ras oncogene-transfected rat embryo fibroblasts (REF) were compared to cotransformation of these cells with adenovirus E1A and ras.
(20) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
Juxtaposition
Definition:
(v. i.) A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words.
Example Sentences:
(1) It appears that the transcriptional activation of the rearranged epo gene in IW32 cells has been mediated by a translocation event which has served to bring the epo gene into close juxtaposition to this transcriptionally active gene.
(2) Although HSV antigens and LC were simultaneously detected within corneal epithelium, LC were not observed in anatomic juxtaposition to HSV antigens, even after reinoculation of infected corneas with HSV on day 14 following the primary infection.
(3) This nucleotide homology extends both to the size and juxtaposition of exons.
(4) The excisive recombination reaction of bacteriophage lambda involves a specific and efficient juxtaposition of two distant higher order protein-DNA complexes on the chromosome of Escherichia coli.
(5) A recurrent theme in all such debates is a juxtaposition of European countries' treatment of the hijab with their attitude towards homosexuality.
(6) The close juxtaposition and homology of the MW and LW genes on the X chromosome is thought to underlie the high frequency of colour vision defects in man and the presence in many individuals of extra copies of the MW gene.
(7) Ofcom said that under the code broadcasters must take into account the scheduling of ads to "avoid unsuitable juxtapositions" between commercials and programmes, especially those that could distress or offend viewers.
(8) Because transcriptional activity is often associated with hypomethylation, we have examined the methylation status of the gamma-globin genes and the truncated psi beta gene on the HPFH chromosome to determine whether juxtaposition of this erythroid-specific region results in a generalized hypomethylation of the globin gene region upstream of the deletion breakpoint.
(9) These spinal tumors all appeared to arise in juxtaposition to the posterolateral sulcus and dorsal sensory roots.
(10) The juxtaposition of Freud and Collingwood suggests that the methods of philosophy and analysis are more alike than the particular problems they try to solve.
(11) During a pre-exocytotic stage, chromaffin granules are found in juxtaposition to the plasma membrane and separated from it by an electron dense space 25--27 A in width.
(12) The purpose of this study was to determine whether fibrinolysis resulting from activation of the clotting cascade in juxtaposition to endothelial cells of the central nervous system (CNS) microvasculature is important for development of clinical signs of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) in recipient Lewis rats.
(13) This unreliability was probably due to their short superficial course and their juxtaposition to the aorta and the pulmonary artery.
(14) In the course of surgery to close the septal defect, she was found to have a right-sided juxtaposition of the appendages.
(15) Juxtaposition of the atrial appendages (JAA) is an uncommon anomaly of the heart that is frequently associated with other cardiac abnormalities, such as transposition of the great arteries and tricuspid atresia.
(16) In contrast, there were very few AFC in juxtaposition to antigen-free MM in the follicular area or the antigen-laden marginal zone macrophages.
(17) Transcription units differing in polarity and fiber frequency can occur in immediate juxtaposition.
(18) Others manifested both cribriform and basaloid patterns in juxtaposition.
(19) By this time, however, odontogenic crest and presumptive molar epithelium have already reached juxtaposition and molar primordia are fully competent.
(20) The juxtaposition of the GPC functional morphology indexes of the stomach juice acidity and blood gastrin concentration implies the necessity to reevaluate the significance of the latter as an adequate index of the GPC function.