juxtapose

juxtapose (someone or something) to (someone or something else)

To consider or analyze someone or something in direct comparison or contrast to someone or something else. The book juxtaposes the actions of the CEO to those of notorious criminals around the world. I'm really not comfortable juxtaposing myself to someone with your level of experience and knowledge.
See also: juxtapose, something

juxtapose (someone or something) with (someone or something else)

1. To place two or more people or things directly beside one another, especially for the purpose of contrast or comparison. I think you could really make a meaningful statement by juxtaposing these images with quotations from various world leaders about the issue. The book juxtaposes the original Greek text with the new English translation.
2. To consider or analyze someone or something in direct comparison or contrast to someone or something else. Her book juxtaposes the actions of the CEO with those of notorious criminals around the world. The film focuses on the intense, personal concerns of its main character and juxtaposes them with the cold, careless march of the rest of society.
See also: juxtapose, something
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

juxtapose someone or something to someone or something

to place people or things next to each other, in any combination. (Also implies that the placing or arranging is done carefully.) I went to the meeting room early so I could juxtapose myself to the head of the table. I juxtaposed the chair to the view out the window.
See also: juxtapose
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • be/have done with somebody/something
  • be in line with (someone or something)
  • better of
  • (someone or something) promises well
  • begin with
  • begin with (someone or something)
  • bird has flown, the
  • beware of
  • beware of (someone or something)
  • be rough on (someone or something)
References in periodicals archive
Paul Chan juxtaposes a passage from Theodor Adorno with one from Kathy Acker that could be an epigraph to the show as a whole: "In such a world which was nonreality terrorism made a lot of sense." Chan's digital animation, projected onto the floor, shows vehicles--cars, bikes, trams--ascending in a bird-swept sky crossed by telephone wires.
"Uncertain States of America", Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Shannon juxtaposes the deliberately cliche with the completely unexpected, and uses both freestyle and set choreography, which itself is a blend of dance, theater, and video projections, set to the live beat of DJ Excess.
Bill "Crutchmaster" Shannon
A representative case: Duvall takes Song of Solomon's 1977 attack on black middleclass aping of white middle-class property values and juxtaposes it against a 1998 profile of the Nobel laureate's ownership of four homes.
The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison: Modernist Authenticity and Postmodern Blackness
Her work juxtaposes photos of life in her village with common sayings, such as, "If someone dreams they are tilling the soil, it is because someone will die."
Glimpses of Indigenous Mexico
Faust/Romeo Et Juliette juxtaposes each line of the original French dialogue with a pronunciation guide for the French indicating which phrases are stressed in performance, and the English translation.
Faust/Romeo Et Juliette
Examining postcolonial dreams gone awry, Michele Magema's two-channel DVD installation Oye Oye, 2002, juxtaposes the artist's torso, marching in the Congolese uniform she wore as a child when her parents fled Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) in 1983 as political refugees, with montaged footage of group dances performed during dictator Mobutu Sese Seko's "national authenticity" campaign.
"Africa Remix": Centre Pompidou
Carpenter juxtaposes Saar's face as it changes over time with a parallel evolution of her art.
Decoding Betye Saar
In the final chapter he juxtaposes Wright's Native Son and his close friend and fellow radical Nelson Algren's Somebody in Boots, two "antibuddy narratives" that offer a sympathetic but sharply critical portrayal of Communist interracial alliances.
New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars
Miller juxtaposes Ben Jonson, Freud, and Lacan, whose common dream of the "spectral son" represents the originary dream of a culture founded on filial sacrifice, "a distinctly homosocial masculine pathos" (231), and "the unmourned, unrelinquished object of a forbidden desire" (255).
Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature
Goodwin, a leading artist of the medium in Britain, has produced a short volume (Encyclopaedia of Mosaic, London: Batsford, 2003, [pounds sterling]18.99) which juxtaposes technical terms, practical information and snippets of history in a somewhat surreal sequence: Vitruvius finding himself next to Vitrified, Wave crest next to Watersoluble glues.
Encyclopaedia of Mosaic