- Comparable
- Comparison
- Line of latitude
- Running level
- Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally
distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes.
- Having the same direction or tendency; running side by
side; being in accordance (with); tending to the same result; -- used
with to and with.
- Continuing a resemblance through many particulars;
applicable in all essential parts; like; similar; as, a parallel case;
a parallel passage.
- Match
- 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.
- To represent as similar, for the purpose of
illustration; to liken.
- 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.
- To be like or equal; to admit, or be worthy of,
comparison; as, his later work does not compare with his earlier.
- To vie; to assume a likeness or equality.
- Comparison.
- Allegory
- Allusion
- Figure of speech
- Figure of speech Pat put back into Homer translation
- Implied comparison
- The transference of the relation between one set of
objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a
compressed simile; e. g., the ship plows the sea.
- Constraint about being shown next to different objects
- In comparison
- Similitude; comparison.