Definition of Contrasts

1. Verb. (third-person singular of contrast) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Contrasts

1. contrast [v] - See also: contrast

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contrasts

contrast stain
contrast transfer function
contrastable
contrasted
contrastimulant
contrastimulants
contrasting
contrastingly
contrastive
contrastively
contrastiveness
contrastivism
contrastivist
contrastivists
contrastivity
contrasts (current term)
contrasty
contrasuggestible
contrasuppressor cells
contrat
contrate
contratenor
contratenors
contraterrene
contrats
contravallation
contravallations
contravariance
contravariances
contravariant

Literary usage of Contrasts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Experimental Psychology: A Manual of Laboratory Practice by Edward Bradford Titchener, ( (1901)
"Taste contrasts. — The object of this experiment is to ascertain the existence of contrasts of ... It may be said beforehand that taste contrasts exist, ..."

2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1893)
"Mixed contrasts with the color-mixer. (1) Disks made on the pattern of the cut at the ... When the whole is held up to the light, the contrasts of adjacent ..."

3. Rise of the Macedonian Empire by Arthur Mapletoft Curteis (1890)
"If we go farther north, we only heighten the contrast; for the climate and products of Macedon resemble those contrasts of central Germany. ..."

4. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"... the contrasts between inner and outer, subject and object, good and evil, ... recognizes such contrasts only in order to attempt to reduce them again to ..."

5. The Rise of Religious Liberty in America: A History by Cobb, Sanford Hoadley (1902)
"Though each had gone through an experience peculiar to itself, in some instances presenting marked contrasts to the others, ..."

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