comparable — قاموس الإنجليزية

صفة

1. Able to be compared (to).

   الاستعمال

   • often
   • with to

   أمثلة

   An elephant is comparable in size to a double-decker bus.

   You can't say that robbing a bank is like pickpocketing. The two are just not comparable.

   أمثلة إضافية (2)

   The firebox married to Britannia's boiler is not, however, in the Doncaster tradition, notwithstanding that it is comparable in dimensions to that of the "V2."

   As yet, we don't know what the comparable figures will be like for the current financial year which ends in March 2022, but we can have a good stab at approximating them.

2. Similar (to); like.

   الاستعمال

   • often
   • with to

   أمثلة

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.

3. Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.

   أمثلة

   Six and forty-two are comparable in the divides order, but six and nine are not.

4. Having comparative and superlative forms.

   الاستعمال

   • of an adjective

   مرادفات

   gradable

   أمثلة

   "Big" is a comparable adjective because it can take the forms "bigger" and "biggest"; "unique" and "amazing", in contrast, are not comparable adjectives.

اسم

1. Something suitable for comparison.

   أمثلة

   And the appraiser said he couldn't come up with comparables, because there hadn't been any sales nearby in several months.

صفة

1. able to be compared or worthy of comparison

   الأضداد

   incomparable

2. conforming in every respect

   مرادفات

   correspondinglike

   أمثلة

   boxes with corresponding dimensions

   the like period of the preceding year