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/ˈkänˌtrast/,/kənˈtrast/,
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contrasted, past participle; contrasted, past tense; contrasts, 3rd person singular present; contrasting, present participle;
  1. Differ strikingly
    • - his friend's success contrasted with his own failure
    • - a contrasting view
  2. Compare in such a way as to emphasize differences
    • - people contrasted her with her sister
  1. strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors"
  2. (contrast) the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared; "in contrast to", "by contrast"
  3. (contrast) put in opposition to show or emphasize differences; "The middle school teacher contrasted her best student's work with that of her weakest student"
  4. (contrast) to show differences when compared; be different; "the students contrast considerably in their artistic abilities"
  5. (contrast) the act of distinguishing by comparing differences
  6. (contrast) line: a conceptual separation or distinction; "there is a narrow line between sanity and insanity"
  7. (Contrast (Emi Maria album)) Contrast is Emi Maria's first major album by Victor Entertainment, released on March 3, 2010.
  8. (Contrast (EP)) "Contrast" is a five-song EP and the first release from the Tennessee-based band The Features following their departure from Universal Records. The band released the EP on their own on October 25, 2006 via their website and then later via traditional music outlets. ...
  9. (Contrast (Klinik album)) Contrast is the first Klinik album after Dirk Ivens' departure.
  10. (Contrast (linguistics)) In linguistics and semantics, contrast is a relationship between two discourse segments. Contrast is often overtly marked by markers such as but or however, such as in the following examples: # It's raining, but I am not taking an umbrella. ...
  11. (Contrast (literary)) In literature, an author writes contrast when he or she describes the difference(s) between two or more entities. For example, in the first four lines of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, Shakespeare contrasts a mistress to the sun, coral, snow, and wire.
  12. (Contrast (music)) In music and musical form, procedures of contrast include stratification, juxtaposition, and interpolation. Procedures of connection include gradation, amalgamation, and dissolution. Contrast is also when you compare two different instrument sounds to each other. ...
  13. (contrast) A difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable; The degree of this difference; A difference between two objects, people or concepts; A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images ...
  14. (CONTRAST) (1) The general term for describing the tone separation in a print in relation to a given difference in the light-and-shade of the negative or subject from which it was made. ...
  15. (Contrast) The degree of tones in an image ranging from highlight to shadow.
  16. (Contrast) The tonal change in color from light to dark.
  17. (contrast) In design, the use of dissimilar or opposing elements, such as light and dark areas, warm and cool colors, or script and block typefaces.
  18. (CONTRAST) to look for differences between two or more things
  19. (Contrast) A term used to describe the degree of value (white through black) variation in an image. In a black and white image, there is a large difference in the value range (since there are no in-between greys in the image). ...
  20. (Contrast) The degree of tonal separation or gradation in the range from black to white.
  21. (Contrast) Stress dissimilarities, differences, or unlikeness of things, qualities, events, or problems.
  22. (Contrast) The range of light to dark values in a picture or the ratio between the maximum and minimum brightness values.
  23. (Contrast) The degree of difference between a subject's tones, which is a function of its inherent shades and colors and also the quality of light.
  24. (contrast) In letterforms, the degree of contrast between the thick strokes and the thin strokes of a given letter. In faces such as Gill Sans and Helvetica, there is no contrast. In Neoclassical and Romantic faces such as Bell and Bodoni, the contrast is high.
  25. (Contrast) The measure of rate of change of brightness in an image.