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contrast
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Tamar, by Mal Peet
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Pieter Grotius's workplace was a complete contrast to the confusion of the shop.
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contrast = something notably different compared (to something)
Sometimes the contrast between how he felt now and how he'd felt then filled him with unease and he would lecture himself sternly on the dangers of complacency.†

contrast = notable difference
It is only the, what-you-call-it, contrast.†

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)