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contrast
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contrast as in:  contrast their writing styles

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Contrast winter in Panama with winter in Alaska.
contrast = point to differences between
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    Contrast typical underlying beliefs of pro-life and pro-choice supporters.
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    The author uses the characters to contrast the pressures felt by someone who spends everything earned and someone who saves money each month.
    contrast = compare to show differences
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    The Vonnegut's perfectly rendered steel loading ramp lowered to the ground, standing out in sharp contrast against the digital blackness of Archaide's surface.  (source)
    contrast = in a comparison that shows differences
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    In contrast, the courtroom itself, designed to replicate the original, was imposing.  (source)
    In contrast = in a comparison that shows differences
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    Frau Holtzapfel appeared to be waiting for me in the kitchen. ... By contrast, Frau Diller was fast asleep.  (source)
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    At school, she once nearly got them in trouble, when her history teacher assigned the class to write a paper contrasting the views of Demosthenes and Locke as expressed in two of their early columns.  (source)
    contrasting = pointing to differences between
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    In his poetry, William Butler Yeats often contrasts the freedom of birds with the earthbound cares and woes of humans.  (source)
    contrasts = compares (in a way that shows differences)
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    ...he had thought that up to make me understand he wasn't afraid of Radleys in any shape or form, to contrast his own fearless heroism with my cowardice.  (source)
    contrast = point to the difference between
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    Contrasted with his neck and jowls, the rest of his body was unnaturally thin.  (source)
    Contrasted = compared (in a way that shows differences)
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    Despite the words that just came out of his mouth, his expression is contrastingly endearing.†  (source)
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    The battle was so high that only the giant, shining bombers were consistently visible; the fighters, tiny in contrast, flickered in and out of view as the sunlight caught them.  (source)
    in contrast = a comparison
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    By contrast, the owl publicity was a nightmare for Mother Paula's All-American Pancake Houses, Inc., which found itself the subject of an unflattering front-page article in the Wall Street Journal.  (source)
    By contrast = in a comparison that shows differences
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    What followed was a debate between father and daughter on the whys and wherefores, a contrasting of perspectives, a comparison of time horizons, and heartfelt expressions of conflicting hopes.  (source)
    contrasting = comparing to show differences
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contrast as in:  there is a contrast

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    There was quite a contrast between the styles of the two teachers.
    contrast = notable difference
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    In stark contrast to two nights ago, when I felt Peeta was a million miles away, I'm struck by his immediacy now.  (source)
    contrast = difference
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    The chill Westerberg sensed between Alex and his parents stood in marked contrast to the warmth McCandless exhibited in Carthage.  (source)
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    The voice was saying, "—easygoing monsters from a bygone world stand in sharp contrast to what we will see next."  (source)
    contrast = notable difference
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    The sun was beginning its slow descent, and as I pulled out, the sky was a swirl of fruity colors that contrasted dramatically with the evening skies I'd come to know in Germany.  (source)
    contrasted = differed
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    A few days later Locke got picked up for a column in a New England newsnet, specifically to provide a contrasting view for their popular column from Demosthenes.  (source)
    contrasting = differing
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    Stimulated by the sights and smells, you realise that you have arrived in a land of contrasts.  (source)
    contrasts = side-x-side arrangement of things that draws attention to an unmissable differences
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    The contrast of fragile veil and rank animal pelt, that's what appeals to the gentlemen.  (source)
    contrast = notable difference
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    She was wearing an understated floral hat, in a pastel color, that contrasted with the white of her hair.  (source)
    contrasted = differed notably in brightness or tone
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    It was June in California, that time of year when most things had turned brown and withered, but here there were trees everywhere, contrasting with the white stone of the buildings.  (source)
    contrasting = differing (in brightness or tone)
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    She wears a bright yellow coat, buttoned to the throat, which contrasts with the dark gray overcast sky above.  (source)
    contrasts = differs notably (in brightness or tone)
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    I couldn't tell him that the reason I couldn't return to Cambridge was that being here threw into great relief every violent and degrading moment of my life. At BYU I could almost forget, allow what had been to blend into what was. But the contrast here was too great, the world before my eyes too fantastical.  (source)
    contrast = difference especially notable in a side-x-side comparison
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    He threw over her shoulders the wraps he had brought, the modest wraps of common life, the poverty of which contrasted with the elegance of the ball dress.  (source)
    contrasted = was notably different
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contrast as in:  sharpen the picture contrast

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She increased the video's contrast by making dark pixels darker and light pixels lighter.
contrast = the difference between tones of an image
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    Some technical definitions of contrast consider intensity of color. Other definitions consider only black and white.
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    We increased the photo's contrast, so we can better see minor detail.
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    ...a series of photos of a human vein, taken in sequence, in gradations of precisely controlled light, the level of contrast changing subtly with each one.  (source)
    contrast = difference between tones of an image
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    As beams of light tinted the clouds with blazing colors, everything gained a sharp contrast: brightly lit on one side, deeply shadowed on the other.  (source)
    contrast = difference (in brightness or tones)
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    The late afternoon light came in through the curtains and made his face a study in contrasts.  (source)
    contrasts = differences in shading
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    The picture was beautiful, however, the composition perfect. ... In the last few months, though, it had started to look kind of eerie to me. Like I couldn't just see the fine white-on-black contrast, or the way our features repeated themselves, in different measure but always similar, across our faces. Instead, when I studied it, I saw other things.  (source)
    contrast = the difference between tones of an image
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    Cedric flips the knob, adjusts the contrast, and fools with a mysterious red button, but all he can get are shadow images of the soulful Sisters With Voices, or SWV, mugging on MTV.  (source)
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    He cropped out the sticker and adjusted the contrast and sharpness.  (source)
    contrast = difference between tones of an image
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    His face was still haggard and his eyes wary and haunted and the bright enthusiastic voice was a sharp contrast.†  (source)
    contrast = the difference between tones of an image
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    She looked around, the bruise on her temple a sharp contrast against her pale skin.†  (source)
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    Anna's ideas presented a sharp contrast to what Jane had always wanted for her daughters, and though it was Anna's wedding, Jane could no more escape her beliefs than she could her own past.†  (source)
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    The chief officer kept lifting his spyglass and stubbornly examining the horizon, walking up and down, stamping his foot, in his nervous agitation a sharp contrast to his superior.†  (source)
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    Blomkvist edited a series of pictures in which he cropped the top half of Harriet and processed them to achieve the best contrast.  (source)
    contrast = difference between tones of an image
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