Comparison vs. Contrast
Comparisonnoun
The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
Comparisonnoun
An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each-other.
Comparisonnoun
With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.
Comparisonnoun
(grammar) The ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees, as in hot, hotter, hottest.
Comparisonnoun
That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
Comparisonnoun
(rhetoric) A simile.
Comparisonnoun
(phrenology) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.
Comparisonnoun
The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate.
Comparisonnoun
The state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them.
Comparisonnoun
That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
Comparisonnoun
The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison.
Comparisonnoun
A figure by which one person or thing is compared to another, or the two are considered with regard to some property or quality, which is common to them both; e.g., the lake sparkled like a jewel.
Comparisonnoun
The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.
Comparisonverb
To compare.
Comparisonnoun
examining resemblances or differences
Comparisonnoun
relation based on similarities and differences
Comparisonnoun
qualities that are comparable;
Contrastnoun
(countable) A difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
Contrastnoun
(uncountable) The degree of this difference.
Contrastnoun
(countable) A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
Contrastnoun
(countable) A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
Contrastnoun
Antithesis.
Contrastverb
(transitive) To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.
Contrastverb
(intransitive) To form a contrast.
Contrastverb
To stand in opposition; to exhibit difference, unlikeness, or opposition of qualities.
Contrastverb
To set in opposition, or over against, in order to show the differences between, or the comparative excellences and defects of; to compare by difference or contrariety of qualities; as, to contrast the present with the past.
Contrastverb
To give greater effect to, as to a figure or other object, by putting it in some relation of opposition to another figure or object.
Contrastnoun
The act of contrasting, or the state of being contrasted; comparison by contrariety of qualities.
Contrastnoun
Opposition or dissimilitude of things or qualities; unlikeness, esp. as shown by juxtaposition or comparison.
Contrastnoun
The opposition of varied forms, colors, etc., which by such juxtaposition more vividly express each other's peculiarities.
Contrastnoun
the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared;
Contrastnoun
the act of distinguishing by comparing differences
Contrastnoun
a conceptual separation or demarcation;
Contrastnoun
the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors
Contrastnoun
the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness)
Contrastverb
put in opposition to show or emphasize differences;
Contrastverb
to show differences when compared; be different;
