Word Finder - contrast

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A difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.

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A difference between two objects, people or concepts.

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Israel is a country of many contrasts.

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Antithesis.

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To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.

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To form a contrast.

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Foreground and background strongly contrast.

His opinions were in broad contrast to the views of Dr. Andrews.

Such is the contrast between winter and spring.

He was such a contrast of emotions, and yet so masculine.

In contrast, courts of law apply the law to everyone.

Contrast her excellent reporting to the passive reporter who found out very little about the company.

He revived Cynthia and wrapped her tightly in a bright red blanket, stark contrast to her blanched pallor.

Like many sisters, they offer a striking contrast in personalities.

Contrast media may be injected.

Or is it simply a reiteration of his sceptical contrast between phenomena and noumena, and of his confinement of (valid) knowledge to the former?

Black on yellow provides the most easily seen color contrast.

All the peaks remained snow-capped, giving sharply defined contrast to the green of their slopes and the blue of the summer sky.

There is a dramatic contrast between the foreground and background.

In sharp contrast to slower locations, Glasgow has the highest spend on roads per capita.

At the same time the feeling he had noticed between his protegee Natasha and Prince Andrew accentuated his gloom by the contrast between his own position and his friend's.

Contrast enhancement is inconclusive.

Hence the Trachylinae are termed " hypogenetic " medusae to contrast them with the metagenetic Leptolinae.

On the 26th of June 1657 he was once more installed as Protector, this time, however, with regal ceremony in contrast with the simple formalities observed on the first occasion, the heralds proclaiming his accession in the same manner as that of the kings.

This contrast weighed on and yet cheered him while she sang.

Can you contrast " judgments of value " with " judgments of fact "?

In such cases the vascular system is said to be polycyclic in contrast with the ordinary monocyclic condition, These internal strands or cylinders are to be regarded as peculiar types of elaboration of the stele, and probably act as reservoirs for water-storage which can be drawn upon when the water supply from the root is deficient.

In the midwinter month, it is the eastern half of the country that has strong temperature contrasts; the temperature gradients are twice as strong between New Orleans and Minneapolis as on the Pacific coast, and the contrast between Jacksonville, Fla., and Eastport, Me., is about the same as between San Diego, Cal., and the Aleutian Islands.

Meadows and marshes provide a lush contrast to the deep blue lakes that snake through mountain valleys.

Everything about him, from his weary, bored expression to his quiet, measured step, offered a most striking contrast to his quiet, little wife.

There is a striking contrast between chaps.

In contrast to this complete industrial occupation, the French territory was held by a small and very scattered population, its extent and openness adding materially to the difficulties of a disputed tenure.

The contrast between these two chapters and those that follow is striking in the extreme.

This green surrounding of the village forms a pleasing contrast to this otherwise bleak, barren, heathy district.

The distribution of mountain barriers in the Old and New Worlds is in striking contrast.

The contrast between the new regime and the ancient tradition of the city was curiously illustrated in 1818 by a scene described in Metternich's Memoirs, when, before the opening of the congress, Francis I., emperor of Austria, regarded by all Germany as the successor of the Holy Roman emperors, knelt at the tomb of Charlemagne amid a worshipping crowd, while the Protestant Frederick William III.

But the streams of civilization which flowed from them were in strong contrast.

The literature of no time presents so powerfully the contrast between moral good and evil.

In contrast with the Schoolmen of the middle ages, he has no partiality for Aristotle.

The contrast lay between the Dominical Supper or food and drink shared unselfishly by all with all, and the private supper, the feast of Dives, shamelessly gorged under the eyes of timid and shrinking Lazarus.

The colours are pale orange and white with very dark markings, a strong contrast making a fine effect.

While the houses of the poorer classes are mean and too often dirty, in marked contrast are the houses of the wealthier citizens, built generally in a style of elaborate arabesque, the windows shaded with projecting cornices of graceful woodwork (mushrebiya) and ornamented with stained glass.

In contrast to the Cyrenaics and the Epicureans, the Stoics denied that pleasure is actually or ought to be the object of human activity.

In contrast with all this, we have a picture of universal depravity.

Yet, in striking contrast to this orthodox tenet is his vivid conception of the weakness and misery of men, the hopelessness of the struggle with evil, whether in society or in the individual.

This influx of wealth furnished the economic basis for a sudden development of literary and artistic activity, inspired by contrast with the new world of the tropics..

He was an assiduous student, commonly spending sixteen hours a day among his books; but his learning (to quote Justin Winsor's contrast between Increase and Cotton Mather) "usually left his natural ability and his education free from entanglements."

The steep, narrow streets of the old town contrast with the wide, shady boulevards which encircle it and divide it from the suburbs.

By the phrase "in order" he may himself have intended chiefly to contrast the orderliness and consecutiveness of his account with the necessarily fragmentary character of the catechetical instruction which Theophilus had received.

Again, the contrast between Lazarus and Dives in the future state pictures vividly the reversals that are in store; but it is unreasonable to take it as implying that every poor man, whatever his moral character, will be blessed.

Beginning in the bosom of prophecy, and steadily differentiating itself from it in its successive developments, it never came to stand in absolute contrast to it.

This omnipotence of the sultan in deciding the policy of the government was in striking contrast with his impotence in enforcing his views on his subjects and in his relations with foreign powers.

In contrast to these segmented or " merozoic " Cestodes, a few primitive forms have preserved a unisegmental' character and form the Monozoa or Cestodaria.

In geographical distribution the Bovidae present a remarkable contrast to the deer tribe, or Cervidae.

At Riad, Fesal, who had been in power since the Egyptian retirement, was still reigning; and the religious tyranny of Wahhabism prevailed, in marked contrast to the liberal regime of Talal in Jebel Shammar.

The simplest experience - a single note struck upon the piano - would not be what it is to us but for its relation by contrast or comparison with other experiences.

The valleys form a marvellous contrast to the surrounding desert.