All 12 Uses
contrast
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The Border Legion
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- Gulden alone presented a contrast and a problem.
Chpt 8 *contrast = something notably different
- His back was turned, yet Joan felt the contrast of his attitude toward the game, compared with that of the others.†
Chpt 9contrast = notable difference
- The gamblers at the cards were silent, in strange contrast with the others; and in each group was at least one dark-garbed, hard-eyed gambler who was not a miner.†
Chpt 13
- All Roberts' pathos and passion had no effect, unless to bring out by contrast the singular and ruthless nature of Jack Kells.†
Chpt 2 *
- In that other cabin, from which she was mercifully shut out, there were different sounds, hideous by contrast.†
Chpt 9
- Then she drew still closer to Kells, and with all the wondrous subtlety of a woman in a supreme moment where a life and a soul hang in the balance, she made of herself an absolute contrast to the fierce, wild, unyielding creature who had fought him off.†
Chpt 9
- They presented such contrasts.†
Chpt 10
- But out of what she had seen and heard loomed two contrasting features: a throng of toiling miners, slaves to their lust for gold and actuated by ambitions, hopes, and aims, honest, rugged, tireless workers, but frenzied in that strange pursuit; and a lesser crowd, like leeches, living for and off the gold they did not dig with blood of hand and sweat of brow.†
Chpt 13
- It had all his old amiability, his cool, easy manner, veiling a deep and hidden ruthlessness, terrible in contrast.†
Chpt 16
- This stranger's face presented as great a contrast to Blicky's as could have been imagined.†
Chpt 16
- On a platform stood black, motionless men in awful contrast with a dangling object that doubled up and curled upon itself in terrible convulsions.†
Chpt 17
- For over against this bandit's weakness and evil she could contrast strength and nobility.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(contrast as in: contrast their writing styles) point to differences between; or compare to show differences
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(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
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(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)