Contrast vs Eminence - What's the difference?
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(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.
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#(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.
To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.
To form a contrast.
* Lyell
someone of high rank, reputation or social station
the quality or state of being eminent
prominence in a particular order or accumulation; esteem
(geology) an elevated land area or a hill
* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy :
(anatomy) a protuberance
As nouns the difference between contrast and eminence
is that contrast is a difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable while eminence is someone of high rank, reputation or social station.As a verb contrast
is to set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.contrast
English
Noun
Verb
(en verb)- Foreground and background strongly contrast .
- The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars.
Derived terms
* contrastingSee also
* compare English heteronymseminence
English
Noun
(en noun)- From the summit of an eminence I had already had a distant view of Osbaldistone Hall, a large and antiquated edifice, peeping out from a Druidical grove of huge oaks [...].