What part of speech is comparing?

Comparing can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. comparing is a verb, gerund of compare (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does comparing mean?

Definitions

Verb

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

Noun

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"

Examples of comparing

#   Sentence  
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.
Sentence  
verb
I am saying when comparing all other hotels in Wildwood, this hotel has everything that we are looking for.
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!
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.
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.

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