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The word compare refers to the act of examining or analyze two or more objects to later be able to establish the differences and the similarities that they maintain between them.

Analysis of two or more objects, people, questions to establish their similarities and differences

People are constantly comparing options, alternatives between two or more elements, questions, people, among others. For example, we could say that the action of comparing implies understanding and knowledge of reality.

When we are in front of an unknown object, it is inevitable that we tend to relate it to another, since known to us, doing a comparative exercise in which the intellect develops a great activity.

Also in language, comparison is common when we speak in terms of synonyms. These bring about the idea of ​​comparison.

Comparison, as we said, is always present in our lives and is used at the behest of various contexts.

For example, in history it is extremely common for historians to analyze and study different eras, movements, that is, compare them, finding similarities and differences in order to understand and describe them best.

And we can transfer this to other situations, such is the case of, for example, comparing two photographs of the same person, but one that was taken when she was six years old and the other when she was 30 years old. Of course, in the observation At first glance we will find many differences, determined by advancing age, but we will also find in that comparison many coincidences in physical appearance that tend to be maintained over the years, for example the eyes.

Comparisons can focus on strictly physical issues or on symbolic things. Thus, if individuals are compared, it is possible to do it from a physical point of view, being able to establish that someone is taller than another, that someone is fatter with respect to their friend, that a friend has thinner and longer hair than ours, among others.
Or, failing that, compare people's personalities and thus arrive at the conclusion that one is friendlier and more agreeable than his companion.

Something that we must always take into consideration when comparing is that the elements that are contrasted must have some similarity, some similarity, since two things that are totally different do not have any kind of coincidence and it is impossible to want find them.

Reason and also experience will be decisive when it comes to having to carry out the aforementioned analysis, because for example, when having than to go out and buy a mattress, if experience tells me from having used it for several years that the mattress without springs is not good, then I will go to look for one that does have them, however, the market for mattresses and box springs today opens up a wide range of possibilities in matter of mattresses with springs, a situation that will require us to examine each of the alternatives to find the pros and cons of each option; And all that comparison, in addition, will be subject to the budget that we handle, which will lead us to go through the different brands again and compare the price with the quality that they propose to us to choose the best price-quality option.

On the other hand, the activity of comparing turns out to be quite common at the behest of the school, since to improve and develop the capacity for analysis and reasoningTeachers usually send as a task the comparison between two texts.

Relationship between two or more things

And also the word compare supposes establish a relationship between two or more things. For example, when the world economic debacle occurred a couple of years ago after the resounding fall of the Wall Street Stock Market, repeatedly, both the press specialized as those who witnessed both situations, did not stop comparing it with the financial crisis that occurred in the thirties of the last century, especially through the determination of those shared issues that both have "economic tragedies" such as: the strong economic breakdown, the growing uncertainty on the population, among other things.