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Meaning contrast meaning

What does contrast mean?
Definitions in simple English

contrast Noun

— Contrasts are the differences you find when you compare something or someone. When comparing English and Japanese, there are many contrasts but also a large number of similarities. Married life is a sharp contrast to the life of a single person.

contrast Verb

— If you contrast two things, you look for or explain the differences between them. It's difficult not to contrast the good things he says with the terrible way he acts.

contrast

— noun the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared in contrast to by contrast — noun the act of distinguishing by comparing differences — verb put in opposition to show or emphasize differences The middle school teacher contrasted her best student's work with that of her weakest student — verb to show differences when compared; be different the students contrast considerably in their artistic abilities — noun (= line) a conceptual separation or distinction there is a narrow line between sanity and insanity — noun the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors — noun 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)

Synonyms contrast synonyms

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contrast English » English

compare comparison opposition antithesis difference opposite differ counterpoint oppose distinction disagreement contrariety contradict conflict collation variance reverse oppositeness objection line juxtapose hostility foil dividing line diversity dissension disparity direct contrast demarcation contradistinction contradiction confront clash be incompatible be different be contrary antagonism withstand vice versa versus vary variation variant unlikeness sundries stand out set against rivalry resistance reflectance

Topics contrast topics

What do people use contrast to talk about?
States Quality Type, kind

Compare
Grammar Connected with, related Coordinate relations

But

Conjugation contrast conjugation

How do you conjugate contrast?

contrast · verb

Examples contrast examples

How do I use contrast in a sentence?

Simple sentences

As far as Bob is concerned, anything goes. By contrast, Jane is very cautious.
The dress has a beautiful contrast between red and white.
The contrast between the two ideas is very marked.
She seemed very happy in contrast to the man.
She seemed happy in contrast to the man.
In contrast to her, her husband didn't seem to be enjoying the shopping.
In contrast to yesterday, it isn't hot at all today.
In contrast to many rumours, I don't know everything.
In contrast with you, I am able to recognize my mistakes.
In contrast to DNA, which only occurs in the nucleus, RNA is also found in the cytoplasm.
What a contrast between them!
The contrast immediately springs to eyes.

Movie subtitles

By contrast, it took the founder of the Ming dynasty 21 years to build a wall more than 20 miles long around his capital city, Nanjing.
In contrast, by turning away from foreign trade and intensifying rice cultivation, the Chinese were stuck with rising population, falling incomes and declining nutrition, height and productivity.
In contrast, it is not unknown to me, so I will accompany you and provide direction.
Having achieved her purpose, the woman became a statue once more, or, in other words, an inhuman object with black gloves in contrast to the snow upon which her steps would no longer leave a trace.
I think it's a tremendous contrast.
That contrast increases the pride with which we now bestow this plaque on America 's Outstanding Woman of the Year.
What a surprise and what a lovely contrast to my usual visitors.
Yes, there will be beauty, for contrast, if nothing else.
Look at that contrast.
Now, would you describe the contrast, if any. after the coming to power of national Socialism in 1933?
He was such a contrast to other men.
In contrast to many disgraceful ronin, and the spineless timidity of other daimyo households, both parties in this instance acted in an exemplary manner that will open eyes and clear the air.
I like the colour contrast.
You must have some contrast, you know.
Simple-minded men might think this an opportunity for trickery. but brilliant men like yourselves will remember in what favor I stand. with the Governor in contrast to some others. and how little their words would weigh against mine.
I was just thinking what a contrast to the ship.
I always did like contrast.
This suggestion stands in the starkest contrast. to the principles in my book and I vote against it.
Such an exciting contrast, Countess.
That's an interesting contrast.
Or did he tell you how primitive in contrast to the brain, our arms and legs have remained?
But. I must warn you it'll be a marked contrast to his beard.
Such contrast.
Oh, the contrast.
Well, why not? I think it's a tremendous contrast.
Its quiet setting with its green pine trees and moat is quite a contrast to the bustle of Tokyo.
Rather a contrast to all the undignified rushing and grabbing - that goes on outside, eh, stanley?
Now would you describe the contrast, if any, after the coming to power of National Socialism in 1933?
Yet I felt her presence close by, in stark contrast to the mass of other girls whom I'd certainly have rejected that night.
Because your new world is so quiet by contrast.
In contrast to what we are you are a prancing savage medicine man.
Although it seems to be in definite contrast to the carbon tests we made.
The hell of Venus is in stark contrast with the comparative heaven of its neighboring world our little planetary home, the Earth.
You can see the contrast in their styles-- the speedy Ray Robinson up on his toes, the dancing master.
Better do IV and oral contrast.
Well, I in contrast, would like to ask you so many things.

News and current affairs

Eastern thinking, by contrast, has been abductive, moving from pragmatism to guessing the next steps.
By contrast, the military had earlier publicly criticized AKP initiatives on Cyprus.
By contrast, those who rule according to a shared belief cannot afford to negotiate, for that would undermine the belief itself.
By contrast, subsidizing current, ineffective solar power or ethanol mostly wastes money while benefiting special interests.
By contrast, rebelling against one's parents' generation and rediscovering traditional moral stances will save France - a message that is highly applicable to issues, such as education and immigration, that may dominate the electoral campaign.
By contrast, other donors give larger sums, usually to only a handful of charities chosen on the basis of some knowledge about what the charity is doing.
Likewise, I will never forget the eerie feeling of riding my bike through the Brandenburg Gate from West Berlin into the East, and seeing the contrast between people who were free and those who were trapped behind the Iron Curtain.
By contrast, America has had a continental-scale economy immune from nationalist disintegration since 1865.
Obama, by contrast, would run larger deficits - his spending increase is much larger than his tax increase - which imply large tax hikes in the future.
In contrast, Obama expanded the war in Afghanistan - which he considered to be a war of necessity - and put the Taliban on the defensive.
Domestically oriented macroeconomists, by contrast, see a forthcoming fall in the value of the dollar not as a crisis, but as an opportunity to accelerate growth.
By contrast, skeptics hold that the US economy already contains the seeds of its own socio-economic decline.
Nothing reveals the decline of the United States in the region better than the contrast between America's sober use of power in the first Gulf War in 1991 and the hubris and deceit of today's Iraq war.
By contrast, employment in middle-skill, white-collar, and blue-collar occupations fell, particularly in manufacturing.
By contrast, 2009 is likely to pave the way to a new form of bipolarity, but with China substituting for the Soviet Union.
By contrast, the twenty-first century will be informed by the realization that the global ecosystem and its resources, which are indispensable for human survival, are finite, and that this implies an enduring responsibility to preserve what we have.
The contrast with Africa's debts could hardly be starker.
In contrast, coal prices are more stable, and may remain that way for a long time.
It remains a sobering lesson, one that presents the media in the role of aggressor and violator, in contrast to their normal position as victim.
This is a huge contrast with the financial sector's position in the previous three decades.
Even here, the MDGs contain no numerical target for financial aid or any other aspect of rich countries' assistance, in contrast to the highly specific poverty-related targets set for developing countries.
By contrast, between 2002 and 2008, Spain's population grew by 700,000 a year, driven largely by immigration.
By contrast, if the threshold is set low enough to bring spreads down from panic levels, purchases will be more substantive, but at the expense of reducing considerably the effective haircut on private holders.
By contrast, North Korea shows that defiance, rather than accommodation, is a strategy that works.
In contrast, memories mediated by the amygdala are unconscious.

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