COMPARED


Meaning of COMPARED in English

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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