Price Definition–noun | 1. | the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale. | | 2. | a sum offered for the capture of a person alive or dead: The authorities put a price on his head. | | 3. | the sum of money, or other consideration, for which a person's support, consent, etc., may be obtained, esp. in cases involving sacrifice of integrity: They claimed that every politician has a price. | | 4. | that which must be given, done, or undergone in order to obtain a thing: He gained the victory, but at a heavy price. | | 6. | Archaic. value or worth. | | 7. | Archaic. great value or worth (usually prec. by of). | –verb (used with object) | 9. | to ask or determine the price of: We spent the day pricing furniture at various stores. | —Idioms | 10. | at any price, at any cost, no matter how great: Their orders were to capture the town at any price. | | 11. | beyond or without price, of incalculable value; priceless: The crown jewels are beyond price. | |
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Comparison Definition–noun | 2. | the state of being compared. | | 3. | a likening; illustration by similitude; comparative estimate or statement. | | 4. | Rhetoric. the considering of two things with regard to some characteristic that is common to both, as the likening of a hero to a lion in courage. | | 5. | capability of being compared or likened. | | 6. | Grammar. | a. | the function of an adverb or adjective that is used to indicate degrees of superiority or inferiority in quality, quantity, or intensity. | | b. | the patterns of formation involved therein. | | c. | the degrees of a particular word, displayed in a fixed order, as mild, milder, mildest, less mild, least mild. | | |
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