contrast
English
editEtymology
editFrom French contraster, from Italian contrastare (“to resist", "to withstand”), from Vulgar Latin *contrāstāre, from Latin contrā (“against”) + stō, stāre (“to stand”).
Pronunciation
edit- (noun)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒntɹɑːst/
- (Northern England, Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈkɒntɹast/
- (verb)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kənˈtɹɑːst/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kənˈtɹɑːst/
- (Northern England, Scotland) IPA(key): /kənˈtɹast/
- Rhymes: -ɑːst
Noun
editcontrast (countable and uncountable, plural contrasts)
- (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.
- The red and the orange don't have much contrast between them — I can hardly tell them apart.
- (countable) A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
- 2009 May 4, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Hremail #7”, in Homestar Runner[1], spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):
- Ohh, you can't fool me. This thing's top of the line! It's got two contrast knobs!
- (uncountable) The degree of this difference.
- (countable) A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
- Israel is a country of many contrasts.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- 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.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 11:
- ... there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast.
- (countable) Something that is opposite of or strikingly different from something else.
- 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 746:
- Why this denunciation of idolatry at this point? And why are Shabbat and the sanctuary mentioned as contrasts to idol worship?
- (countable, uncountable, rhetoric) Antithesis.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editdifference that makes colours more or less distinguishable
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degree of this difference
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difference between two objects, people or concepts
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control on a television, etc
Verb
editcontrast (third-person singular simple present contrasts, present participle contrasting, simple past and past participle contrasted)
- (transitive) To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.
- (intransitive) To form a contrast.
- Foreground and background strongly contrast.
- 1845, Charles Lyell, Lyell's Travels in North America:
- The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars.
Antonyms
edit- (antonym(s) of “to show difference”): liken
Derived terms
editTranslations
editto set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between
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to form a contrast
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See also
editCatalan
editEtymology
editDeverbal from contrastar. First attested in the 14th century.[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcontrast m (plural contrasts or contrastos)
References
edit- ^ “contrast”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Further reading
edit- “contrast” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “contrast” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “contrast” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French contraste, from Middle French contraste, from Italian contrasto.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcontrast n (plural contrasten, diminutive contrastje n)
- A contrast.
- Synonym: tegenstelling
Related terms
editRomanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French contraste.
Noun
editcontrast n (plural contraste)
Declension
editDeclension of contrast
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) contrast | contrastul | (niște) contraste | contrastele |
genitive/dative | (unui) contrast | contrastului | (unor) contraste | contrastelor |
vocative | contrastule | contrastelor |
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