All 4 Uses

contrast
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The Perfect Game
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A few houses off the corner, in front of the one owned by Umberto and Oralia Macias, was a planter of flowers, their vivid colors bursting forth in stark contrast to the muted hues of the drab street.†
Chpt 2.15 *

contrast = notable difference
I always felt a big contrast between my background and that of my classmates.†
Chpt ITOW
The banquets they partook of in grand dinning rooms contrasted sharply from the cold meals they had eaten on so many occasions, and the same team that had to hitchhike to the game were now being transported in limousines.†
Chpt 3.29
After hours of cheers and screams, the lonely silence of the street contrasted starkly to his ears.†
Chpt 3.30

Definitions:

(1) (contrast as in: contrast their writing styles)
point to differences between; or compare to show differences
(2) (contrast as in: there is a contrast)
a difference -- especially a notable difference; or the side-x-side arrangement of things that draws attention to an unmissable difference
(3) (contrast as in: sharpen the picture contrast)
the difference between tones of an image -- as in a photo or video -- such as the quality of brightness or the intensity of shades or colors
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)