Comparing can be categorized as a verb.
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compare - examine and note the similarities or differences of; "John compared his haircut to his friend's"; "We compared notes after we had both seen the movie" | ||
compare - consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous; "We can compare the Han dynasty to the Romans"; "You cannot equate success in financial matters with greed" | ||
compare - be comparable; "This car does not compare with our line of Mercedes" | ||
compare - to form the comparative or superlative form on an adjective or adverb | ||
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comparing - the act of examining resemblances; "they made a comparison of noise levels"; "the fractions selected for comparison must require pupils to consider both numerator and denominator" |
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1. | verb | I am saying when comparing all other hotels in Wildwood, this hotel has everything that we are looking for. | |
2. | verb | I've stayed at this fabulous little motel two years running, and I have to say it's one of the best lodging experiences I've ever had on the coast...and I'm even comparing it to the big resorts I've stayed at! | |
3. | verb | Somehow, since she supposedly doesn't know any names of designers/dresses, after I told her the designer and dress name of the one I was comparing, she knew "exactly which dress" I was referring to and disagreed with my observation; she said that the bodice did come as low as the one I had on. | |
4. | verb | The explanation below was achieved by comparing and contrasting a variety of different theories. | |
5. | verb | Evidence that the above example is farfetched can be seen by comparing the total occurrences of component X. | |
6. | verb | Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of others. | |
7. | verb | "No, not so much. At most comparing sizes, telling dirty stories." "Sizes of what?" "Of 'that'." | |
8. | verb | You're comparing chalk and cheese! | |
9. | verb | You're comparing apples and oranges! | |
10. | verb | Comparing American English and British English is like counting incompatible sets of floors of a building. That's why, when you try translating over and over again between the two, it's like climbing an endless set of floors. You might even reach the moon someday doing that. | |
11. | verb | You are comparing apples and oranges. | |
12. | verb | You're comparing apples with oranges. | |
13. | verb | I'm not comparing Tom to Mary. | |
14. | verb | When comparing two vector quantities of the same type, you have to compare both the magnitude and the direction. | |
15. | verb | Their distress was now greater than before, and on returning home, they spent the night in comparing their own sensations with what they had heard from Philetas. |
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I am saying when comparing all other hotels in Wildwood, this hotel has everything that we are looking for. |
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I've stayed at this fabulous little motel two years running, and I have to say it's one of the best lodging experiences I've ever had on the coast...and I'm even comparing it to the big resorts I've stayed at! |
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Somehow, since she supposedly doesn't know any names of designers/dresses, after I told her the designer and dress name of the one I was comparing, she knew "exactly which dress" I was referring to and disagreed with my observation; she said that the bodice did come as low as the one I had on. |
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The explanation below was achieved by comparing and contrasting a variety of different theories. | |
Evidence that the above example is farfetched can be seen by comparing the total occurrences of component X. | |
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of others. | |
"No, not so much. At most comparing sizes, telling dirty stories." "Sizes of what?" "Of 'that'." | |
You're comparing chalk and cheese! | |
You're comparing apples and oranges! | |
Comparing American English and British English is like counting incompatible sets of floors of a building. That's why, when you try translating over and over again between the two, it's like climbing an endless set of floors. You might even reach the moon someday doing that. | |
You are comparing apples and oranges. | |
You're comparing apples with oranges. | |
I'm not comparing Tom to Mary. | |
When comparing two vector quantities of the same type, you have to compare both the magnitude and the direction. | |
Their distress was now greater than before, and on returning home, they spent the night in comparing their own sensations with what they had heard from Philetas. |