different between contrast vs syntopical
contrast
English
Etymology
From French contraster, from Italian contrastare (“to resist", "to withstand”), from Vulgar Latin *contr?st?re, from Latin contr? (“against”) + st?, st?re (“to stand”)
Pronunciation
- (noun)
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?nt???st/
- (US) enPR: k?n'tr?st, IPA(key): /?k?nt(?)?æst/
- (verb)
- (UK) IPA(key): /k?n?t???st/
- (US) enPR: k?ntr?st', k?n'tr?st, IPA(key): /k?n?t(?)?æst/, /?k?nt(?)?æst/
- (UK) IPA(key): /k?n?t???st/
- Rhymes: -??st
Noun
contrast (countable and uncountable, plural contrasts)
- (countable) A difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
- (uncountable) The degree of this difference.
- (countable) A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
- (uncountable) The degree of this difference.
- (countable) A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
- The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.
- (countable, uncountable, rhetoric) Antithesis.
Derived terms
- metacontrast
- paracontrast
Translations
Verb
contrast (third-person singular simple present contrasts, present participle contrasting, simple past and past participle contrasted)
- (transitive) To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.
- (intransitive) To form a contrast.
- 1845, Charles Lyell, Lyell's Travels in North America
- The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars.
- 1845, Charles Lyell, Lyell's Travels in North America
Derived terms
- contrasting
- contrastive
Translations
See also
- compare
Catalan
Etymology
From contrastar, attested from the 14th century.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /kon?t?ast/
- (Central) IPA(key): /kun?t?ast/
Noun
contrast m (plural contrasts or contrastos)
- contrast
References
Further reading
- “contrast” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “contrast” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “contrast” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French contraste, from Middle French contraste, from Italian contrasto.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?tr?st/
- Hyphenation: con?trast
- Rhymes: -?st
Noun
contrast n (plural contrasten, diminutive contrastje n)
- A contrast.
- Synonym: tegenstelling
Related terms
- contrasteren
Romanian
Etymology
From French contraste.
Noun
contrast n (plural contraste)
- contrast
Declension
contrast From the web:
- what contrast mean
- what contrasts with green
- what contrasts with red
- what contrast is used in mri
- what contrasts with purple
- what contrast is used in ct
- what contrasts with pink
- what contrasts with blue
syntopical
English
Etymology
synoptic +? -al
Adjective
syntopical (not comparable)
- Referring to a type of analysis in which different works are compared and contrasted.
- After finishing his syntopical reading of the leaders' speeches, he wrote an essay comparing the language used by Reagan, Carter, Gorbachev, and Qaddafi.
- 1997: Dhun H. Sethna, Investing Smart
- (...) and it is their words and wisdom, accumulated over long periods of syntopical reading, that make up this text.
See also
- synoptic
Anagrams
- synoptical
syntopical From the web:
- what syntopical means
- what is syntopical reading
- what does syntopical meaning
- syntopical definition
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