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Comparing   /kəmpˈɛrɪŋ/   Listen
Comparing

noun
1.
The act of examining resemblances.  Synonym: comparison.  "The fractions selected for comparison must require pupils to consider both numerator and denominator"


Compare

verb
(past & past part. compared; pres. part. comparing)
1.
Examine and note the similarities or differences of.  "We compared notes after we had both seen the movie"
2.
Be comparable.
3.
Consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous.  Synonyms: equate, liken.  "You cannot equate success in financial matters with greed"
4.
To form the comparative or superlative form on an adjective or adverb.





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"Comparing" Quotes from Famous Books



... at noon about the fact that he and Shakespeare's father were in wool, and he had annoyed a few modest Americans by comparing the petty amount of the elder Shakespeare's trade with the vast total pouring from his own innumerable looms driven with the electricity that the ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... three protagonists live and move before our eyes. The sixth book may be said to be the heart of the whole poem. The extreme intellectual subtlety of Guido's plea stands quite unrivalled in poetic literature. In comparing it, for its poetic beauty, with other sections, the reader must bear in mind that in a poem of a dramatic nature the dramatic proprieties must be dominant. It would be obviously inappropriate to make Count Guido Franceschini speak with the dignity of the ...
— Life of Robert Browning • William Sharp
... made, to what standard of a just discipline is it that these writers would be understood as appealing? Is it to some ideal, or to some existing and known reality? Would they have England suppose that they are here comparing the actual Oxford with some possible hypothetic or imaginable Oxford,—with some ideal case, that is to say, about which great discussions would arise as to its feasibility,—or that they are comparing it with some known standard of discipline ...
— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey
... long puzzled him and his fellow-servants was explained. On comparing notes, they recollected that whenever the bell sounded, Dash was not to be seen; and there could now be no doubt that immediately he observed them closing their eyes, he had hastened off to the parlour, the bell-rope of which he could easily reach, in ...
— Stories of Animal Sagacity • W.H.G. Kingston
... serious. It is happy for a nation when mere fashions are a topic that can employ its attention; for, though dissipation may lead to graver moments, it commences with ease and tranquillity: and they at least who live before the scene shifts are fortunate, considering and comparing themselves with the various regions who enjoy no parallel felicity. I confess my reflections are couleur de rose at present. I did not much expect to live to see peace, without far more extensive ruin than has fallen ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole, V4 • Horace Walpole


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