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contrast

noun
/kənˈtɹɑːst/UK/kənˈtɹast//kənˈt(ʃ)ɹæst/US

Etymology

From French contraster, from Italian contrastare (“to resist", "to withstand”), from Vulgar Latin *contrāstāre, from Latin contrā (“against”) + stō, stāre (“to stand”).

  1. derived from contrā
  2. derived from contrastare
  3. borrowed from contraster

Definitions

  1. A difference in lightness, brightness or hue between two colours that makes them more or…

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

    • The red and the orange don't have much contrast between them — I can hardly tell them apart.

  2. A difference between two objects, people or concepts.

    • Israel is a country of many contrasts.
    • The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.
    • ... there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast.

  3. Something that is opposite of or strikingly different from something else.

    • Why this denunciation of idolatry at this point? And why are Shabbat and the sanctuary mentioned as contrasts to idol worship?
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Antithesis.

    2. Contrast medium

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

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

    4. To form a contrast.

      • Foreground and background strongly contrast.
      • The color of her dress contrasts very nicely with the black scarf around her neck.
      • The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars.

The neighborhood

  • antonymlikenantonym(s) of “to show difference”
  • neighborcompare

Derived

by contrast, contrast agent, contrastless, contrast medium, contrastment, contrast radiography, contrast ratio, contrast set, contrast therapy, contrasty, hysterosalpingo-contrast-sonography, hysterosalpingo contrast sonography, in contrast, in contrast to, metacontrast, multicontrast, noncontrast, paracontrast, phase contrast microscope, phase contrast microscopy, postcontrast, precontrast, radiocontrast, reverse contrast, thorotrast, contrastable, compare and contrast, contrasting, contrastive

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at contrast. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at contrast. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at contrast

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA