Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you say, for example, that one thing is large or small ~ with another or ~ to another, you mean that it is larger or smaller than the other thing.
The room was light and lofty ~ with our Tudor ones...
Columbia was a young city ~ to venerable Charleston.
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2.
You talk about one situation or thing ~ with another or ~ to another when contrasting the two situations or things.
In 1800 Ireland’s population was nine million, ~ to Britain’s 16 million.
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