Hierarchy vs Contrast - What's the difference?
hierarchy | contrast |
A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.
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, title= Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.
(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
As nouns the difference between hierarchy and contrast
is that hierarchy is a body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks while contrast is (label) a difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.As a verb contrast is
to set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.hierarchy
English
Noun
(hierarchies)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy : at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.}}
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.