likening

Someone likening life to a movie is pretty out of touch with reality no matter what you call it.

The juxtaposition between the parking ticket and his likening to the civil rights movement is hilarious.

It's not merely giving it a name - it's specifically likening the vector to the relative orientation of your fingers.

Likening a household's budget to the United States' budget is like likening a photon to a race-car: any similarities there are are very shallow, and you're likely to come away with huge misconceptions.

Addendum: The other real serious mischaracterization here is likening software to a physical product, even one as complicated as a skyscraper.

Obviously this is the extreme, and I'm not likening sending search queries to fulltime video surveillance, but the point is people have different thresholds of what they will tolerate.

Not likening Microsoft's actions to stealing money here, it's just an example.

All too often i find myself likening computers to small children.

This article leaves open several issues by likening BitCoin to email.

I also feel like your discounting the power of developing a social relationship (as an awareness tool) by likening it to telemarketing.

A more fair comparison would be likening AI (and all automata + the internet) to the cerebral cortex of the mammalian (human) brain and human beings to the brainstem.

I'm likening the 'chucks' to be undergoing wavelet transforms.

I'm operating under the current set of definitions and primarily wanted to make the point that likening paraphilic disorders as "sexual orientations" is typically hurtful for reasons that probably don't require explaining.

Likening one to the other is like saying Google and Square are both evil just because they're technology companies.

Likening Kickstarter to an investment has always concerned me.

Likening that to a password, I think he's saying putting a layer of security in front of SSH, protected only by a 3 character password, is not a great idea, and that he's seen slow brute force attacks that seem to be able to overcome such things.