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Contrast vs Counterprogram - What's the difference?

contrast | counterprogram |

As verbs the difference between contrast and counterprogram

is that contrast is to set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between while counterprogram is to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete or contrast with a program broadcast simultaneously on another station.

As a noun contrast

is (label) a difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.

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.
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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.

    • 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

    counterprogram

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (rare)

    Verb

  • To schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete or contrast with a program broadcast simultaneously on another station.
  • By extension, to engage in similar competitive posturing or scheduling in any comparable situation.
    • The opposing political party is deploying high profile speakers to counterprogram the convention with small rallies at nearby sites.

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