All 5 Uses

contrast
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The Heritage of the Desert
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Mescal had developed a vivacity, an ambition which contrasted strongly with her silent moods; she became alive and curious, human like the girls he had known in the East, and she fascinated him the more for this complexity.†
Chpt 9

contrasted = differed
And he shut his teeth, and narrowed his eyes, and faced it with an eager joy that was in strange contrast to the pang in his breast.†
Chpt 10 *

contrast = notable difference
What a contrast to the memory of a camp-site on the Connecticut shore, with boy friends telling tales in the glow of the fire, and the wash of the waves on the beach!†
Chpt 3
Love had sounded depths hitherto unplumbed; a quick, soft impulsiveness made the contrast sharp and vivid.†
Chpt 8
This zone of rim merged into another of strange contrast, the sloping red stream of sand which flowed from the wall of the canyon.†
Chpt 9

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)