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salience

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?se?l??i?ns/
  • Rhymes: -i?ns

Noun

salience (countable and uncountable, plural saliences)

  1. The condition of being salient.
  2. A highlight; perceptual prominence, or likelihood of being noticed.
  3. (social sciences, linguistics) Relative importance based on context.

Synonyms

(perceptual prominence): pertinence, relevance

Translations

Anagrams

  • Cleesian, escaline, secaline

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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/
  • Rhymes: -??st

Noun

contrast (countable and uncountable, plural contrasts)

  1. (countable) A difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
    1. (uncountable) The degree of this difference.
    2. (countable) A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
  2. (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.
  3. (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)

  1. (transitive) To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.
  2. (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.

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)

  1. 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)

  1. A contrast.
    Synonym: tegenstelling

Related terms

  • contrasteren

Romanian

Etymology

From French contraste.

Noun

contrast n (plural contraste)

  1. contrast

Declension

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