contrast
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From French contraster, from Latin contrāstāre (“to resist", "to withstand”), from contrā (“against”) + stō, stāre (“to stand”).
Inflected forms:
form: contrasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: contrasts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: contrasting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: contrasted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: contrasted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A difference in lightness, brightness or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The red and the orange don't have much contrast between them — I can hardly tell them apart.
gloss: A difference in lightness, brightness or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Ohh, you can't fool me. This thing's top of the line! It's got two contrast knobs!
gloss: A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: Something that is opposite of or strikingly different from something else.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Why this denunciation of idolatry at this point? And why are Shabbat and the sanctuary mentioned as contrasts to idol worship?
gloss: Antithesis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rhetoric
uncountable
gloss: Contrast medium
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between; to counterpoint.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To form a contrast.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
often
examples: 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.
Antonyms: liken
Related words: compare
Derived words: 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
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: təzad
lang: Azerbaijani
word: kontrast
lang: Bulgarian
word: контраст
roman: kontrast
lang: Catalan
word: contrast
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 对比度
roman: duìbǐdù
lang: Esperanto
word: kontrasto
lang: Finnish
word: kontrasti
lang: Galician
word: contraste
lang: Georgian
word: კონტრასტი
roman: ḳonṭrasṭi
lang: German
word: Kontrast
lang: Italian
word: contrasto
lang: Māori
word: pūrata
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: kontrast
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: kontrast
lang: Persian
word: کنتراست
roman: kontrâst
lang: Polish
word: kontrast
lang: Portuguese
word: contraste
lang: Romanian
word: contrast
lang: Russian
word: контра́ст
roman: kontrást
lang: Spanish
word: contraste
lang: Swedish
word: kontrast