comparable — Słownik języka angielskiego

Przymiotnik

1. Able to be compared (to).

   Użycie

   • often
   • with to

   Przykłady

   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.

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   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.

   Użycie

   • often
   • with to

   Przykłady

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   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.

   Przykłady

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

4. Having comparative and superlative forms.

   Użycie

   • of an adjective

   Synonimy

   gradable

   Przykłady

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

Rzeczownik

1. Something suitable for comparison.

   Przykłady

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

Przymiotnik

1. able to be compared or worthy of comparison

   Antonimy

   incomparable

2. conforming in every respect

   Synonimy

   correspondinglike

   Przykłady

   boxes with corresponding dimensions

   the like period of the preceding year