Compatible with means able to work together: compatible with Windows, compatible with this phone. A job compatible with your studies is one you can combine with them. Blood types can be compatible, so one can be given to the other. About people: we're just not compatible means we don't suit each other.
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be compatible with someone/something; mutually compatible; incompatible with
- This microphone is compatible with the recording equipment we already own.
- The evening schedule is compatible with her daytime job.
- Their priorities are different but still compatible.
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First versionThe charger is compatible to this model.
RevisionThe charger is compatible with this model.
Similar to and suited to make to feel natural after an adjective like this. But compatible takes with: compatible with this model. Easy to remember: compatible things work with each other.
Similar to means alike; compatible with means able to work together. A plug that looks the same doesn't make a charger compatible: The plug looks similar to mine, but it isn't compatible with my laptop. The opposite is incompatible with.
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with — Working with software is compatible with. To goes after similar, not after compatible.
Write whether you can combine your job, studies or hobby, and why. Use compatible with.
The weekend volunteering schedule is compatible with my weekday classes.
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