Meaning of contrast | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A difference in lightness, brightness or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
   uncountable
2. The degree of this difference.
   uncountable
3. A difference in lightness, brightness or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable. The degree of this difference
4. A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
   countable
5. The degree of this difference
6. A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
   countable
7. A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed
8. Something that is opposite of or strikingly different from something else.
   countable
9. A difference between two objects, people or concepts
10. Antithesis.
    countable, rhetoric, uncountable
11. Something that is opposite of or strikingly different from something else
12. Contrast medium
    uncountable

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Examples

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

“Ohh, you can't fool me. This thing's top of the line! It's got two contrast knobs!”

“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.”

“Why this denunciation of idolatry at this point? And why are Shabbat and the sanctuary mentioned as contrasts to idol worship?”

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