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Contrast vs Counterview - What's the difference?

contrast | counterview |

As nouns the difference between contrast and counterview

is that contrast is a difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable while counterview is an opposing viewpoint.

As a verb contrast

is to set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.

contrast

English

Noun

  • (label) A difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
  • #(label) The degree of this difference.
  • #:
  • #(label) A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
  • (label) A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
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  • *: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.
  • Antithesis.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.
  • To form a contrast.
    • Foreground and background strongly contrast .
  • * Lyell
    • The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars.

    Derived terms

    * contrasting

    See also

    * compare English heteronyms

    counterview

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An opposing viewpoint.
  • A posture in which two persons face each other.
  • * Milton
    • Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, / In counterview .
  • * Sir W. Hamilton
    • M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendix.
  • A position in which two dissimilar things illustrate each other by opposition; contrast.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • I have drawn some lines of Linger's character, on purpose to place it in counterview or contrast with that of the other company.