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compares

vb. (en-third-person singular of: compare)

Usage examples of "compares".

To this end he compares measurements of atmospheric temperature and local density with barometric measurements.

This phenomenon can be seen in nature, if, for instance, one observes a bed of blue and red flowers in the fading evening light and compares the impression with that which the same flowers make in bright daylight.

He compares the quantity of liquid necessary to keep artificially alive a piece of living tissue which has been reduced to pulp, with the quantity of blood doing the same within the living organism.

If one compares the conditions of temperature in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, it will be seen that this temperature is an exceptionally low one.

Wilson compares this approach to taking out one page of an encyclopedia at a time, ripping it up and putting it together again.

When one compares his utterances of a year or so ago with those made fifteen years earlier, a thing that strikes one is the rigidity of his mind, the way in which his world-view doesn't develop.