What does «comparación» mean in Spanish?
- The action and effect of comparing: to fix the attention on two or more things to discover their relations, differences or similarities; to compare.
Examples of use in Spanish: "las comparaciones que hace la maestra entre alumnos es odiosa".
"en la revista se publicó la comparación técnica entre distintas marcas de teléfonos celulares".
"la tasa de crecimiento disminuyó en comparación con el año pasado".
- Rhetorical figure that consists of comparing or finding similarities between one thing and another to give a better idea of one of them; also called simile. Rhetorical comparison is a figure that deforms reality by exaggeration. For example, the sentence "You are as hard as steel" is a rhetorical comparison or simile; another example "Your dark hair is as beautiful as the night".
Examples of use in Spanish: "la comparación o símil es una figura retórica ampliamente empleada tanto en la literatura moderna como en la antigua".
- (no haber punto de comparación) Said of things that are very different from each other, usually referring to quality.
Examples of use in Spanish: "no hay punto de comparación, el servicio de esa empresa es muchísimo mejor que el de esta otra".
- (no tener comparación) That it cannot be compared for being much better or much worse.
Examples of use in Spanish: "su calidad no tiene comparación, ¡es la mejor!".
- (correr la comparación o correr la paridad) There is equality and corresponding proportion between the things being compared; two things have similarity.
- (adjetivo comparativo) An adjective that expresses a comparison of qualities between two elements. They are of three types: - Comparative of equality: as ... as.