Usually means: Evaluate similarities and differences between.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word compare:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. compare: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. compare: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. compare: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. compare: Collins English Dictionary
  5. compare: Vocabulary.com
  6. Compare, compare, compare: Wordnik
  7. compare: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. compare: Wiktionary
  9. compare: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. compare: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. compare: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Compare, compare: Dictionary.com
  13. compare: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Compare (journal), Compare: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Compare: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. compare: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. compare: Rhymezone
  18. compare: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. compare: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. compare: Free Dictionary
  21. compare: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. compare: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. compare: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. compare: Legal dictionary
  2. compare: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compare: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. compare: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. COMPARE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. compare: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Compare: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) 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.
verb:  (transitive) To declare two things to be similar in some respect ["to compare X to Y"].
verb:  (transitive, grammar) To form the three degrees of comparison of (an adjective).
verb:  (intransitive) To be similar (often used in the negative).
verb:  (obsolete) To get; to obtain.
noun:  (uncountable) Comparison.
noun:  (countable, programming) An instruction or command that compares two values or states.
noun:  (uncountable, obsolete) Illustration by comparison; simile.

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