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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adjacency |
| Synonyms: | abutment, contact, nearness, proximity, touching |
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| Main Entry: | comparison |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contrasting; corresponding |
| Synonyms: | allegory, analogizing, analogy, analyzing, association, balancing, bringing together, collating, collation, comparability, connection, contrast, correlation, discrimination, distinguishing, dividing, estimation, example, exemplification, identification, illustration, juxtaposition, likeness, likening, measuring, metaphor, observation, opposition, paralleling, ratio, relating, relation, resemblance, segregation, separation, similarity, testing, weighing |
| Main Entry: | conjunction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | combination |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, agreement, alliance, association, cahoots, coincidence, concomitance, concurrence, congruency, conjointment, hookup, juxtaposition, parallelism, partnership, tie-up, union |
| Notes: | a conjunction is a word that connects: a coordinating conjunction connects similar elements (you and I), while a correlative conjunction has related parts (either/or) |
| Antonyms: | detachment, disconnection, division, separation |
| Main Entry: | contact |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | touching |
| Synonyms: | approximation, closeness, collision, connection, contiguity, contingence, hit, impingement, junction, juxtaposition, nearness, propinquity, proximity, relation, strike, taction, touch, union |
| Antonyms: | avoidance |
| Main Entry: | meeting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | convergence, intersection |
| Synonyms: | abutment, agreement, apposition, concourse, confluence, conjunction, connection, contact, crossing, joining, junction, juxtaposition, unification, union |
| Antonyms: | division, separation |
| Main Entry: | proximity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nearness to something |
| Synonyms: | adjacency, appropinquity, closeness, concurrence, contiguity, contiguousness, immediacy, juxtaposition, propinquity, togetherness |
| Antonyms: | distance, remoteness |
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| Main Entry: | association |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
a-gatewards, affiliated, allied to, allusive, approximating, approximative, appurtenant to, associated, banded together, belonging to, bonded together, catenated, chainlike, cognate, commensal, comparable, confederated, connected, contubernial, correlative, dowelling, embattled, factional, federative, ginglymoid, implicated, in alliance, in common with, in league, in partnership, in relation with, in the same category, interlaced, joint, ligulate, like, linked together, obvolute, proportionable, proportional, proportionate, referable to, related, relating, relative, relative to, relevant
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| Concept: | Comparison. |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
comparison, collation, contrast; identification; comparative estimate, relative estimate., simile, similitude, analogy (similarity); allegory (metaphor).
-verbs
compare to, compare with; collate, confront; place side by side (near); set against one another, pit against one another; contrast, balance., identify, draw a parallel, parallel., compare notes; institute a comparison; parva componere magnis [Lat].
-adjectives
comparative; metaphorical., compared with; comparable; judged by comparison.
-adverbs
relatively (relation); as compared with
-phrases
comparisons are odious; "comparisons are odorous" [Much Ado about Nothing].
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