(n.) The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate.
(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.
(n.) That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
(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.
(n.) A figure by which one person or thing is compared to another, or the two are considered with regard to some property or quality, which is common to them both; e.g., the lake sparkled like a jewel.
(n.) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.
(v. t.) To compare.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison of the S100 alpha-binding protein profiles in fast- and slow-twitch fibers of various species revealed few, if any, species- or fiber type-specific S100 binding proteins.
(2) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(3) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
(4) Comparison with 194 age and sex matched subjects, without STD, were chosen as controls.
(5) A quantitative comparison of tissue distribution and excretion of an orally administered sublethal dose of [3H]diacetoxyscirpenol (anguidine) was made in rats and mice 90 min, 24 hr, and 7 days after treatment.
(6) A third group of healthy children was added for comparison.
(7) Errors in the initial direction of response were fewer in binocular viewing in comparison with monocular viewing.
(8) Under these conditions the meiotic prophase takes place and proceeds to the dictyate phase, obeying a somewhat delayed chronology in comparison with controls in vivo.
(9) Data collection at the old hospital for comparison, however, was not always reliable.
(10) Comparison if single injections of MSB and atropine in normal subjects also demonstrated a more reliable dose-response relationship with MSB.
(11) 1 The effects of chronic ethanol intake on the elimination kinetics of antipyrine were determined in nineteen male alcoholic subjects with comparison made to fourteen male volunteers.
(12) The lineage and clonality of Hodgkin's disease (HD) were investigated by analyzing the organization of the immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor beta-chain (T beta) gene loci in 18 cases of HD, and for comparison, in a panel of 103 cases of B- and T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs) and lymphoid leukemias (LLs).
(13) In the hypertensive patients we have found decreased WBF, greater BV and FI in comparison with the control group (p less than 0.001).
(14) Comparison of developmental series of D. merriami and T. bottae revealed that the decline of the artery in the latter species is preceded by a greater degree of arterial coarctation, or narrowing, as it passes though the developing stapes.
(15) Median effect analysis was applied for the evaluation of in vitro effect by the growth inhibition, and the in vivo effect by comparison of the increase of life span (ILS) in a combined group with the sum of ILS's in 2 single agent groups.
(16) The enzyme was quantitated by incubation of 16-micron-thick brain sections with 0.07-2 nM of the converting enzyme inhibitor 125I-351A and comparison to 125I-standards.
(17) Charge data from the target hospital showed a statistically significant reduction in laboratory charges per patient in the quarter following program initiation (P = 0.02) and no evidence for change in a group of five comparison hospitals.
(18) In the second comparison, HSV was isolated from 225 of 1,026 (21.9%) specimens and duplicate human foreskin fibroblast cell wells stained at 24 and 72 h were PAP positive in 241 of 1,026 (23.5%).
(19) A comparison of chest pain description was performed between MI and non-MI subjects.
(20) This light microscopic comparison of viable FDA- and nonviable PI-stained cysts of G. muris demonstrates that 2 types of cysts can be distinguished and implies that structural differences can be used to identify these subpopulations of cysts.
Unmatched
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Illness was also significantly associated with eating lightly cooked eggs (unmatched p = 0.02), but not soft boiled eggs, and precooked hot chicken (matched p = 0.006).
(2) Rabbits were orally immunized by gastric feeding with Campylobacter spp., and 27 to 30 days later, they were challenged with matched or unmatched serogroups by the removable intestinal tie adult rabbit diarrhea (RITARD) procedure.
(3) His refusal to endorse evolution hardly distinguishes him from the other Republican presidential hopefuls, but Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal can point to an unmatched achievement as he formally kicks off his campaign: signing a law that paved the way for creationism to be taught in schools.
(4) There was unmatched data in 11 additional patients.
(5) We are simply responsible to declare any donation from them if it is above the donation threshold.” In eight of the other 11 cases of unmatched declarations the party branches declared the donations but said they came from a different entity to that listed on the donor declaration.
(6) The approval times of a set of common 25 NCEs and a larger set of unmatched NCEs were very similar in Australia, Canada, Sweden and the US, with median approval times from 23 to 29 months.
(7) The introduction of a blood component system has made Group O unmatched packed red blood cells (G O UPRBCs) available for emergency resuscitation from hypovolemic shock.
(8) Drones may predate Obama, but his resolute use of them is unmatched Read more The aim of the missions was to track, and when the conditions were deemed right, kill suspected insurgents.
(9) The limited number of mattresses studied and the use of unmatched controls precludes the drawing of any general conclusions as to the significance of the biofilms or other fungi isolated.
(10) In several other centers, ABO-unmatched liver transplants have equivalent overall graft survivals, but the Pittsburgh adult patients with hemolysis have had reduced early graft survival.
(11) Ventilation-perfusion scanning was abnormal in a further three of 15 patients studied, with unmatched perfusion defects in two and isolated ventilation defects in one.
(12) Clinical features of bronchopulmonary infection were significantly more among cases compared to unmatched controls.
(13) Relatively low levels of symptom endorsement by an unmatched psychiatric comparison sample indicated that the high levels of symptom endorsement by ESD patients could not be attributed to the presence of psychiatric dysfunction per se.
(14) During the matching process, spots are automatically added to each pattern at positions where unmatched spots were detected in other patterns.
(15) Unmatched bases in the heteroduplex also gives rise to reactive matched bases nearby.
(16) It is also suggested that, in those conditions that lead to an inordinate accumulation of Ca2+ into myocardial cells, the unmatched demands of energy and the depletion of ATP play a primary role in the irreversible stage of cell damage.
(17) Both unmatched and matched samples were used in the analysis, and cut-off scores were obtained.
(18) In a regional case-control study of coarse fishing and urothelial cancer, histories from 989 patients with tumours diagnosed in the period 1985-87 were compared with histories from 2,059 unmatched electoral register controls and 1,599 matched general practitioner controls.
(19) Surgically resected marrow is more easily depleted of T cells than aspirated marrow and clinically useful quantities of marrow have been obtained and cryopreserved in a bank of characterized donor marrow for future use in HLA minimally matched or unmatched marrow transplantation.
(20) Unmatched mongrel dogs were submitted to a left lung orthotopic allotransplantation (groups I and II), or a sham operation (group III).