Explore how language and culture are interrelated and how they shape and are shaped by each other (VCVIU035) Show If something or someone does not compare with something or someone else, the second thing is very much better than the first: See more Idiom(Definition of compare from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) compare | American Dictionarycompare verb (EXAMINE DIFFERENCES)compare verb (CONSIDER SIMILARITIES)Idiom(Definition of compare from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of comparecompare There was a statistically significant reduction in self-rated tinnitus loudness at the time of the follow-up questionnaire compared to the initial questionnaire. We evaluated and compared analytic manual indexing to computer program generated semantic indexing. One human study with magnetic resonance spectroscopy showed changes in the hippocampus in elderly memory training participants compared to controls. By contrast, a much higher proportion of the large gene family of olfactory receptors have retained their functionality in mice, as compared to humans. The contracts made good business sense: contract profits may have been small compared to the profits on patented drugs, but so was the risk. The sequence of each clone was compared to sequences in public databases to identify its closest match. As an example, suppose that we pooled all samples from the same gender and compared the differential expression of some genes between the two genders. The mean length of activators was 15.1 amino acids compared to a length of 11.7 in the unselected population. The process of comparing and validating these methods should depend most heavily on the biological assessment. Array-specific cutoff determination provides more flexibility in the hybridizations and strains that can be compared. Depending on the threshold selected, the potential impact on the respective posts can be compared. Happy is this union if you experience it, but compared with the other, it is no union at all. The author compares the process of language transfer from adults to children with biological evolution. The results are compared with more sophisticated self-consistent codes. Simulations and modeling of mixing were compared to experiments through one measured parameter- the neutron yield. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
