Comparing [verb]

There was a great comparing of papers, and turning over of leaves, by Fogg and Perker, after this statement of profit and loss.

She found herself comparing the two men, and she was rather surprised at the difference she could distinguish.

Of course, you understand that measurement of anything is the comparing of it with some established standard.

Now the Chaplain pauses: he is comparing the number of the wooden block hanging outside the cell with that on the letter.

In comparing the first three stanzas with the Teseide, we must reverse the order of the stanzas in the latter poem.

Gibbon is probably referring to this play in comparing Mrs. Holroyd to the spirited Duchess.

Mother, what a charming account he gave us, in comparing the properties of sound and light.

Comparing these scales with the Species of the Octave, we find a certain amount of correspondence.

He passed whole hours in remembering mere nothings, and comparing his present life with his past.

Quite naturally she was comparing the slim, dark-eyed girl at her side with Marian Bassett.