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Contrast vs Crux - What's the difference?

contrast | crux |

As nouns the difference between contrast and crux

is that contrast is a difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable while crux is the basic, central, or essential point or feature.

As a verb contrast

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

As a proper noun Crux is

a distinctive winter constellation of the southern sky, shaped like a cross. It appears in the flags of several countries in Oceania.

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

    crux

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The basic, central, or essential point or feature.
    • The crux of her argument was that the roadways needed repair before anything else could be accomplished.
  • The critical or transitional moment or issue, a turning point.
  • * 1993 , Laurence M. Porter, "Real Dreams, Literary Dreams, and the Fantastic in Literature", pages 32-47 in'' Carol Schreier Rupprecht (ed.) ''The Dream and the Text: Essays on Literature and Language .
    • The mad certitude of the ogre, Abel Tiffauges, that he stands at the crux of history and that he will be able to raise Prussia "to a higher power" (p. 180), contrasts sharply with the anxiety and doubt attendant upon most modern literary dreams.
  • A puzzle or difficulty.
    • The perpetual crux of New Testament chronologists. — Strauss.
  • The hardest point of a climb.
  • * 1973 , Pat Armstrong, "Klondike Fever: Seventy Years Too Late", in Backpacker , Autumn 1973, page 84:
    • The final half-mile was the crux of the climb.
  • * 2004 , Craig Luebben, Rock Climbing: Mastering Basic Skills , The Mountaineers Books, ISBN 9780898867435, page 179:
    • Most pitches have a distinct crux', or tough spot; some have multiple '''cruxes'''. ΒΆ Climb efficiently on the "cruiser" sections to stay fresh for the ' cruxes .
  • * 2009 , R. J. Secor, The High Sierra: Peaks, Passes, and Trails , Third Edition, The Mountaineers Books, ISBN 9780898869712, page 51:
    • Continue climbing the groove; the crux is passing some vegetation on the second pitch.
  • (heraldiccharge) A cross on a coat of arms.

    • Related terms

    * cross * crucial