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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



... unfrequently marred by wretched translation. The cyclopaedias are, some of them, both in articles on particular authors and in their sketches of French literary history as a whole, good sources of general information on the subject. Readers who command the means of comparing several different cyclopaedias, or several successive editions of some one cyclopaedia, as, for example, the "Encyclopaedia Britannica," will find enlightening and stimulating the not always harmonious views presented on the same topics. Hallam's "History of Literature in ...
— Classic French Course in English • William Cleaver Wilkinson
... pyramids of Meroe possess one marked feature, distinguishing them from the pyramids of Egypt proper—that is, they have an external doorway or porch. As there is no entrance to the pyramid at these porticoes, it is quite possible that they were temples for worship or making offerings to the dead. By comparing them with the pyramids of Ghizeh, it will be seen that they are also taller in proportion to their base. Another important point in these porches or temples is the existence of the arch; and that, too, an arch in principle, with a ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 • Various
... the voluntary and benevolent character of the charity-school by comparing the subscription form (240) with some voluntary subscription form used ...
— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY
... work[1] I find a cut (see next page) comparing the spectra of carbon with the light emitted by two comets observed in 1868—Winnecke's comet and ...
— Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel • Ignatius Donnelly
... for the head tone, or a tone taken in the upper register. Before I explain the registers to you I must tell you one of the funniest compliments I ever received. A very flattering person was comparing my voice to that of another high soprano ...
— Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing • Enrico Caruso and Luisa Tetrazzini


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