📖 C — The English dictionary · page 53

compact — Everyday, meaning 1: (adjective) Compact means small and neatly packed so that it does not take up much space.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Compact soil, snow or earth is pressed tightly together.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A compact is a small flat case with a mirror and face powder.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (noun, formal) A compact is an agreement between people or countries.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (verb) To compact something is to press it together tightly so it takes less space.↗ Example: We bought a compact tent that fits in a backpack.↗ · The flat is compact but very cosy.↗ · The snow was so compact that we could walk on top of it.↗ · The rubbish truck compacts the bags to make room for more.↗ · Mum checked her lipstick in her compact mirror.↗ · The two countries signed a compact to share the river.↗ · Heavy machines compacted the ground before the road was built.↗ · "I've made this compact," she said.↗ · Jerusalem, that art builded as a city that is compact together; (Writings PSA.122.3, JPS 1917)↗

compaction — Everyday, meaning 1: Pressing something together so it becomes tighter and smaller, with less space inside it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) The squeezing of layers of sediment or soil by weight on top, which helps turn sediment into sedimentary rock.↗ Example: Compaction squeezes layers of sand into sandstone.↗ · Heavy tractors cause soil compaction.↗ · Rubbish lorries use compaction to fit more rubbish in.↗ · We modelled compaction by pressing layers of clay together.↗ · Roots struggle to grow in soil with too much compaction.↗ · Road builders use rollers for compaction of gravel.↗

companion — Everyday, meaning 1: A companion is a person or animal you spend time with or travel with.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A companion is a friend who keeps you company.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A companion is a person paid to live with and help an older or ill person.↗ Example: My dog is my best companion.↗ · The knight and his companions set off on a quest.↗ · She was a cheerful travelling companion.↗ · Teddy was his constant companion at night.↗ · Grandma has a companion who helps her at home.↗ · Carrots and onions are good companion plants.↗ · Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.↗ · I will give thee answer, and thy companions with thee.↗ (Writings JOB.35.4, JPS 1917)↗ · I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.↗ (Writings JOB.30.29, JPS 1917)↗ · But it was thou, a man mine equal, my companion, and my familiar friend; (Writings PSA.55.14, JPS 1917)↗

companionship — Everyday, meaning 1: The good feeling of being with friends or others and not being alone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Friendly company that someone or something gives you, such as a pet or a neighbour.↗ Example: Gran got a cat for companionship.↗ · The old sailor missed the companionship of his crew.↗ · Dogs give great companionship.↗ · We visit Mr Jones to give him some companionship.↗ · Clubs offer companionship as well as games.↗ · The two travellers enjoyed each other's companionship.↗ · You see we have no female companionship.”↗

company — Everyday, meaning 1: A company is a business that makes or sells things or provides a service.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Company is being with other people, so you are not alone.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Company means guests or visitors in your home.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A company is a group of actors, dancers or soldiers who work together.↗ Example: Dad works for a big computer company.↗ · Thank you for keeping me company.↗ · Our dog is good company for Grandma.↗ · We're having company for dinner tonight.↗ · The theatre company performed Peter Pan.↗ · That company makes bikes.↗ · Two's company, three's a crowd.↗ · Then you will surely have company enough.’↗ · This do: take you censors, Korah, and all his company; (Torah NUM.16.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and it was a very great company.↗ (Torah GEN.50.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; (Torah GEN.35.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Do ye indeed speak as a righteous company?↗ (Writings PSA.58.2, JPS 1917)↗ · As it were a dance of two companies.↗ (Writings SNG.7.1, JPS 1917)↗ · The caravans of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them — (Writings JOB.6.19, JPS 1917)↗

comparable — Everyday, meaning 1: Similar in size, amount or quality, so it makes sense to compare them: «two schools of comparable size».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Able to be compared: «These results are not comparable».↗ Example: The two towns are comparable in size.↗ · Is a cat's speed comparable to a dog's?↗ · To make it a fair test, the plants need comparable amounts of water.↗ · This cheap bike is comparable with the expensive one.↗ · Prices in the two shops are comparable.↗ · The numbers are not comparable because one is in metres and one in feet.↗ · The Samaritans still to this day preserve a tradition allowing Resh to occur in both single and double forms, bearing a distinction comparable to the difference between the Spanish single r of pero and double rr of perro.]↗ Taw-Thaw.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!↗ (Writings LAM.4.2, JPS 1917)↗

comparative — Everyday, meaning 1: (grammar) The comparative is the form of an adjective or adverb used to compare two things: bigger, taller, more beautiful, better.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Comparative means judged by comparing with something else: «comparative comfort», «comparatively easy».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Comparative describes a study that compares things: comparative religion.↗ Example: «Taller» is the comparative of «tall».↗ · The comparative of «good» is «better».↗ · After the storm, the calm felt like comparative luxury.↗ · The test was comparatively easy this time.↗ · Write the comparative and superlative of «fast».↗ · Long words use «more»: «more interesting» is a comparative.↗ · It is practically impossible to use the long tabulations for comparative purposes without some such shorthand.↗

comparatively — Everyday, meaning 1: Comparatively means when compared with something else, or to some degree, as in «comparatively cheap».↗ Example: The test was comparatively easy this week.↗ · Mice live a comparatively short time.↗ · The flat is comparatively cheap for London.↗ · Ireland is comparatively small.↗ · Comparatively few people came to the meeting.↗ · Our school is comparatively new.↗ · She was already sure that he must be Peter, but it did seem a comparatively short name.↗

compare — Everyday, meaning 1: To compare is to look at two or more things to see how they are the same and how they are different.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To compare is also to say one thing is like another.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Compared with» or «compared to» means when you set one beside the other.↗ Example: Compare the number of apples and pears.↗ · Compare 45 and 54: which is bigger?↗ · Compared to Tom, Sara has 7 more stickers.↗ · Compare the lengths of the two ropes.↗ · Compare the two plants: which grew taller?↗ · Compare prices before you buy.↗ · The poem compares the moon to a balloon.↗ · Compared with last year, it is warmer.↗ · Nothing in the world can be compared with red shoes.↗ · Compare also the Talmud treatise Chagigah p. 12.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · 35) Compare Chapter I, Section 3, Note, 8.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · God made them as this one compared with that one.↗ [note 3: [Ecclesiastes 7:14].↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Or what likeness will ye compare unto Him?↗ (Prophets ISA.40.18, JPS 1917)↗ · I have compared thee, O my love, to a steed in Pharaoh's chariots.↗ (Writings SNG.1.9, JPS 1917)↗ · For wisdom is better than rubies, and all things desirable are not to be compared unto her.↗ (Writings PRO.8.11, JPS 1917)↗

comparing — Everyday, meaning 1: Comparing means looking at things to see how they are alike or different, or which is bigger.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is the -ing form of compare.↗ Example: Comparing the two boxes, the red one holds 6 more balls.↗ · We are comparing the heights of the trees.↗ · By comparing prices, she saved $4.↗ · Comparing the scores, who won?↗ · We are comparing fractions today.↗ · Comparing the two stories, which did you like more?↗ · Stop comparing yourself to your sister.↗

comparison — Everyday, meaning 1: A comparison is when you look at two things to see how they are alike or different.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A comparison is also saying one thing is like another, as in «as brave as a lion».↗ Example: Make a comparison of the two numbers with > or <.↗ · The comparison shows that Ann read 12 more pages.↗ · In comparison, Ben ran twice as far.↗ · Write a comparison of 3/4 and 2/3.↗ · «As fast as a cheetah» is a comparison.↗ · Our class made a comparison of two plants.↗ · In comparison with the elephant, the mouse is tiny.↗ · A worm is fat in comparison with me.'↗ · The difference between the human and divine manner of thinking admits no comparison.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · And he said unto them: 'What have I now done in comparison with you?↗ (Prophets JDG.8.2, JPS 1917)↗ · For they were in three stories, and they had not pillars as the pillars of the courts; therefore room was taken away from the lowest and the middlemost, in comparison with the ground.↗ (Prophets EZK.42.6, JPS 1917)↗ · God hath delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and what was I able to do in comparison with you?'↗ Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.↗ (Prophets JDG.8.3, JPS 1917)↗

compartment — Everyday, meaning 1: A separate part or section inside a container, bag, car or box.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A separate section of a railway carriage with its own seats and door.↗ Example: My pencil case has three compartments.↗ · Put the map in the glove compartment.↗ · The treasure was hidden in a secret compartment.↗ · We had a train compartment all to ourselves.↗ · Ice cream goes in the freezer compartment.↗ · Put your bag in the overhead compartment on the plane.↗

compass — Everyday, meaning 1: An instrument with a magnetic needle that always points north, used to find directions.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A tool with two arms, one with a point and one with a pencil, used to draw circles; in British English often called "compasses" or "a pair of compasses".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: "Compass points" are north, south, east and west.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To compass something is to achieve or bring it about, an old-fashioned use.↗ Example: The compass needle points north.↗ · We used a map and compass on the hike.↗ · Set the compasses to 5 centimetres to draw a circle with a radius of 5 cm.↗ · The four compass points are north, south, east and west.↗ · Keep magnets away from the compass.↗ · The sailors steered by compass.↗ · He has more cleverness than ten thousand men, and he found means to compass his end.↗ · 'Ye have compassed this mountain long enough; turn you northward.↗ (Torah DEU.2.3, JPS 1917)↗ · But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.↗ (Torah GEN.19.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as the LORD spoke unto me; and we compassed mount Seir many days.↗ (Torah DEU.2.1, JPS 1917)↗ · For the waves of Death compassed me.↗ (Prophets 2SA.22.5, JPS 1917)↗ · From the wicked that oppress, my deadly enemies, that compass me about.↗ (Writings PSA.17.9, JPS 1917)↗ · He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.↗ (Writings LAM.3.5, JPS 1917)↗

compassion — Everyday, meaning 1: A strong feeling of sympathy and sadness for someone who is suffering, together with wanting to help them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (church, ethics) Kindness and care shown to people in need; Christians believe Jesus showed compassion to the sick and poor.↗ Example: The nurse treated every patient with compassion.↗ · Jesus felt compassion for the hungry crowd.↗ · Showing compassion means helping, not just feeling sorry.↗ · The Good Samaritan stopped out of compassion.↗ · She felt compassion for the lost puppy.↗ · Our school collects food for families, as an act of compassion.↗ · Touched with compassion, he said to himself:↗ · And she had compassion on him, and said: 'This is one of the Hebrews' children.'↗ (Torah EXO.2.6, JPS 1917)↗ · that then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the peoples, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.↗ (Torah DEU.30.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Hath He in anger shut up his compassions?'↗ Selah (Writings PSA.77.10, JPS 1917)↗ · My heart is turned within Me, My compassions are kindled together.↗ (Prophets HOS.11.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Great are Thy compassions, O LORD; quicken me as Thou art wont.↗ (Writings PSA.119.156, JPS 1917)↗

compassionate — Everyday, meaning 1: Compassionate means feeling sorry for people in trouble and wanting to help them.↗ Example: The kind nurse was compassionate to the sick child.↗ · A compassionate judge listened to the poor man.↗ · The old soldier had a compassionate heart and opened the door.↗ · Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is compassionate.↗ (Writings PSA.116.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Therefore I fled beforehand unto Tarshish; for I knew that Thou art a gracious God, and compassionate, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy, and repentest Thee of the evil.↗ (Prophets JON.4.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God; for He is gracious and compassionate, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy, and repenteth Him of the evil.↗ (Prophets JOL.2.13, JPS 1917)↗

compatible — Everyday, meaning 1: Able to work together with something else without problems (a charger compatible with your phone).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (people) Able to live, work or get on together well because they are alike in some way.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (medicine) Suitable to be given or put into someone's body without harm (a compatible blood type).↗ Example: Is this game compatible with my tablet?↗ · The charger isn't compatible with the old phone.↗ · My sister and I aren't very compatible on long car trips.↗ · Blood for a transfusion must be a compatible type.↗ · These two Lego sets are compatible, so you can mix them.↗ · Their ideas were compatible, so they worked well together.↗