Contrasts
There are several common expressions for making contrasts in English. They include on the one hand … on the other hand, on the contrary, in comparison, by comparison, in contrast, by contrast. …
contrast
verb
uk /kənˈtrɑːst/ us /kənˈtræst/
C2[ T ]
to compare two people or things in order to show the differences between them: 对照，对比
contrast something with somethingIf you contrast some of her early writing with her later work, you can see just how much she improved.如果你对比一下她的早期作品和后期的作品，就会看出她进步有多大。
C2[ I ]
If one thing contrasts with another, it is very different from it: 形成对照；显出明显的差异
The styles of the two film makers contrast quite dramatically.两位电影导演风格迥异。
contrast withThe tartness of the lemons contrasts with the sweetness of the honey.柠檬的酸味和蜂蜜的甜味形成鲜明的对比。
Her later sensual works contrast starkly with the harsh earlier paintings.她后期表现情色的作品和她早期那些风格冷峻的绘画作品形成了鲜明的对比。
The president's passionate speech contrasted strongly with his subdued address to the parliament yesterday.
What he said contrasted strikingly with what he actually did.
The designer chose bright curtains and cushions that contrast with the subdued wallpaper.
The sharpness of the lemon contrasts deliciously with the sweetness of the sugar.

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Being and appearing different

contrast | American Dictionary

contrast
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈkɑn·træst/
an easily noticed or understood difference between two or more things:
[ U ]She is quite petite, in contrast with her tall sister.
[ C ]Contrasts between Manhattan’s rich and poor astonished him.
art
In art and photographs, contrast is the difference between dark and light colors or dark and light areas.
contrast
verb[ I/T ]
us/kənˈtræst/
to compare someone or something with another or others, or to show the differences between two or more things:
[ T ]She contrasted Hamilton’s Federalist ideas with the Anti-Federalist views of Thomas Jefferson.
[ I ]His aggressive style contrasts sharply with that of his low-key predecessor.

Examples of contrast

contrast
English, by contrast, is a language in which argument omission is not permitted.
In contrast, action planning is an off-line operation, planning future actions in accordance with expected and/or intended future events.
In contrast, the nonspatial characteristics of the target (such as its weight or function) are almost completely unlikely to change after the movement is planned.
This too was in marked contrast to the conduct of planning before the devaluation.
This is in contrast to group 3 species, which were not found in rice fields.
The verbal gerund, by contrast, can combine with adverbs, auxiliaries, ordinary objects, and common-case subjects.
Ordinary forgetting, by contrast, is neither selective nor intelligent.
By contrast, ordinary adjectives without passive morphology were unlikely to be reanalyzed as verbs or to give rise to a verbal interpretation.
Cognitive factors involved in preserving a phonetic contrast.
Two contrasting dispersal models, one purely diffusive and one stratified, were then chosen to simulate colonization for the two contrasting initial genetic structures.
In contrast, lithium or imipramine reduced depression scores but did not improve learning.
There are numerous contrasts between these two regions.
They contrast with syntactic representations, which are structured in terms of lexical heads and grammatical functions or relations.
Note that this is in contrast to most traditional fault modeling approaches where the fault is represented as an additive or a multiplicative time-dependent quantity.
We incline to think that the latter change, in contrast to the former, represents a cognitive improvement in our condition.
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Collocations withcontrast

contrast

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contrast enhancement
The value of u is critical to the contrastenhancement and noise suppression of the preprocessing layer.
contrast ratio
The patterns had a mean light intensity of 60 cd m 2, and a contrastratio of 15:1.
contrast sensitivity
The filter parameters define the range and shape of the contrastsensitivity function.
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