Index of English words, starting with "co"

(1) - Comparative (n.) One who makes comparisons; one who affects wit.
(2) - Comparative (n.) An equal; a rival; a compeer.
(3) - Comparative (n.) The comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs; also, the form by which the comparative degree is expressed; as, stronger, wiser, weaker, more stormy, less windy, are all comparatives.
(4) - Comparative (a.) Expressing a degree greater or less than the positive degree of the quality denoted by an adjective or adverb. The comparative degree is formed from the positive by the use of -er, more, or less; as, brighter, more bright, or less bright.
(5) - Comparative (a.) Estimated by comparison; relative; not positive or absolute, as compared with another thing or state.
(6) - Comparative (a.) Proceeding from, or by the method of, comparison; as, the comparative sciences; the comparative anatomy.
(7) - Comparative (a.) Of or pertaining to comparison.

(1) - Comparatively (adv.) According to estimate made by comparison; relatively; not positively or absolutely.

(1) - Comparator (n.) An instrument or machine for comparing anything to be measured with a standard measure; -- applied especially to a machine for comparing standards of length.

(1) - Compare (v. t.) To get; to procure; to obtain; to acquire
(2) - Compare (n.) Illustration by comparison; simile.
(3) - Compare (n.) Comparison.
(4) - Compare (v. i.) To vie; to assume a likeness or equality.
(5) - Compare (v. i.) To be like or equal; to admit, or be worthy of, comparison; as, his later work does not compare with his earlier.
(6) - Compare (v. t.) 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.
(7) - Compare (v. t.) To represent as similar, for the purpose of illustration; to liken.
(8) - Compare (v. t.) 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.