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Contrast   /kˈɑntræst/  /kəntrˈæst/   Listen
Contrast

noun
1.
The opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared.  Synonym: direct contrast.  "By contrast"
2.
The act of distinguishing by comparing differences.
3.
A conceptual separation or distinction.  Synonyms: demarcation, dividing line, line.
4.
The perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors.
5.
The range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness).
verb
(past & past part. contrasted; pres. part. contrasting)
1.
Put in opposition to show or emphasize differences.
2.
To show differences when compared; be different.  Synonym: counterpoint.



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"Contrast" Quotes from Famous Books



... gentle, reassuring tone of this letter is almost like that of a mother encouraging a dear but weak-spirited child to make his own decisions and to abide by them. Catherine's sweetness of nature preserves her from viewing Gregory with any tinge of contempt; but we cannot help feeling the contrast between this frail woman of heroic soul and the hesitating figure of ...
— Letters of Catherine Benincasa • Catherine Benincasa
... tragedy of the cross. As we enter then to-day on the anniversary of the last week of the life of Jesus, the week before Easter Sunday, let us glance at some of the hurrying events. And for today consider the contrast which presents itself between the entrance of Jesus at Jerusalem on Sunday morning, and his return to the city by the same road on this Monday {149} morning of his last week. Yesterday he came over the brow of the Mount of Olives, surrounded ...
— Mornings in the College Chapel - Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion • Francis Greenwood Peabody
... and fixed her eyes upon him, and they held him so that he could not stir. Then, in strange contrast to the hissing whisper, there broke from her lips a ringing and unearthly laugh that chilled him to the marrow. So ...
— Dawn • H. Rider Haggard
... wolves, we must needs keep shepherds' dogs. But in spite of everything, the best that can be said in favor of war is, that it remains a sad but inevitable necessity, and that to get rid of it, more is wanting than the wish. What a contrast to labor—that contest of Man with Nature;—that merciful and fruitful war, where victories are not estimated like other victories, by the number of the slain, but which, on the contrary, scatters fresh life around it as it spreads; fresh life in the laborer himself, by ...
— The History of a Mouthful of Bread - And its effect on the organization of men and animals • Jean Mace
... courage; but you are never more ridiculous than in these would-be grand bursts of feeling, when you contrast the little you can embrace with the monstrous and great which are so high above you. Thus may the worm measure the trampling elephant, and reckon his weight in the moment when it dies beneath ...
— Faustus - his Life, Death, and Doom • Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger


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