contrast

IPA: kˈɑntræst

(countable) A difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
(uncountable) The degree of this difference.
(countable) A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
(countable) A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
(countable) Something that is opposite of or strikingly different from something else.
(countable, uncountable, rhetoric) Antithesis.

(transitive) To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.
(intransitive) To form a contrast.

Examples of "contrast" in Sentences

To the south the contrast is total.
It is contrasting the present and the future.
In contrast, mining activity is unsubstantial.
Psmith, by contrast, is outgoing and garrulous.
It contrasts to the traditional view of homeostasis.
One of the reprint stories, in contrast, is nicely old-school.
By contrast, the moiety classes encompass many different clans.
This is in contrast to the different orders of chivalry in existence.
In contrast the floor of the crater is relatively level and featureless.
This bit, in contrast, is just painful, especially at over five minutes.
Note the aspiration contrast and the lack of phonation contrast for stops.
How is a patois compared or contrasted to the concept of a macaronic language
The economic way of thinking, in contrast, is true whether people like it or not.
PCL-R Factor 1, in contrast, is associated with extraversion and positive affect. ....
Illiquidity, in contrast, is pissing $Trillions away on unproductive parasites and bleeding people who do real work dry.
Avatar, in contrast, is on one level about the preservation and defense of a utopia, and so overall it is bright and affirmative and hopeful.
The mindful individual, in contrast, is one who shapes reality by identifying several possible perspectives from which any situation may be viewed ...