All 9 Uses

contrast
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The Light of Western Stars
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For that matter, Madeline observed Helen did not show any marked contrast to the others.
Chpt 15 *

contrast = an unmissable difference when compared side-x-side
Madeline Hammond stood tapping a shapely foot on the floor, and with some amusement contrasted her reception in El Cajon with what it was when she left a train at the Grand Central.†
Chpt 1
From the porch the cluster of adobe houses added a picturesque touch of color and contrast to the waste of gray valley.†
Chpt 6
Madeline remembered Stewart's former brutality and shame and abject worship, and she measured the great change in him by the contrast afforded now in his dark, changeless, intent face.†
Chpt 9
The laced, fringed, ornamented vaqueros presented a sharp contrast to the bare-legged, sandal-footed boys and the ragged herders.†
Chpt 10
If before she had cared to study her cowboys, particularly Stewart, now, with the contrasts afforded by her guests, she felt by turns she was amused and mystified and perplexed and saddened, and then again subtly pleased.†
Chpt 16 *
Madeline returned to camp in just the mood to make a sharp, deciding contrast.†
Chpt 16
The drab monotony of the foothills made contrast below the forest, and away in the distance, rosy and smoky, lay the desert.†
Chpt 19
They presented a contrast to the others she had seen that day; she wondered a little at their silence, at their respectful front.†
Chpt 25

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)