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UK
/kəmpˈeəɹɪŋ/
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[ US /kəmˈpɛɹɪŋ/ ]
[ US /kəmˈpɛɹɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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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
How To Use comparing In A Sentence
- My guess is they were either swapping football stickers or comparing notes on how to look after successful women. The Sun
- So I was writing an email about comparing Mormonism and traditional Christianity and I wrote “moronism” instead. Moronism « Christopher Colaninno
- In comparing different voices and different accounts, he naturally finds many discrepancies. The Times Literary Supplement
- Then Kirwill retraced his route a second time, without the lamp and without a magnifying glass, comparing the ninhydrin prints with his own card of the prints of James Kirwill. Gorky Park
- Studies comparing annual ridership rank New York City's subway system the fifth largest in the world.
- Comparing sportsmen, and sportswomen, of different eras has always been a fairly pointless exercise. Times, Sunday Times
- This computer method calculates the amount of damaged tissue by comparing MRI signal strength between damaged and undamaged tissue.
- How to be happy: stop comparing yourself to others.
- Dame Gourlay, with two of her contemporaries, the same who assisted at Alice's late-wake, seated apart upon a flat monument, or "through-stane," sate enviously comparing the shares which had been allotted to them in dividing the dole. The Bride of Lammermoor
- The code was validated by comparing the computed forces and torques with the analytic solutions for a hemisphere and sphere in point contact with the wall and also computations for axisymmetric spherical caps and spheroids.