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- to compare; to make a comparison
- to compete; to vie
This meaning is used when evaluating similarities and differences between two or more items, people, or concepts.
This meaning refers to competing against others in terms of performance, achievements, or status.
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When people are being put into a hypnotic state for the first time I often, after placing them in a very light hypnotic state, wake them and ask them to compare their wakening state to that when hypnotised.
"No, not so much. At most comparing sizes, telling dirty stories." "Sizes of what?" "Of 'that'."
Though it is true that every normal human being is able to use language, it is misleading to compare this with his ability to eat, sleep, or walk.