comparison : Idioms & Phrases


Beyond comparison

  • so far superior as to have no likeness, or so as to make comparison needless.
Webster 1913

Comparison of hands

  • (Law), a mode of proving or disproving the genuineness of a signature or writing by comparing it with another proved or admitted to be genuine, in order to ascertain whether both were written by the same person. Bouvier. Burrill.
Webster 1913

comparison-shop

  • verb compare prices for a given item
WordNet

imaginative comparison

  • noun the kind of mental comparison that is expressed in similes or metaphors or allegories
WordNet

In comparison of, In comparison with

  • as compared with; in proportion to. Archaic "So miserably unpeopled in comparison of what it once was." Addison.
Webster 1913