CONTRASTとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (noun)

  (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɒntɹɑːst/

• (Northern England, Scotland) IPA: /ˈkɒntɹast/

  (米国発音) enPR: kŏn'trăst, IPA: /ˈkɑnt(ʃ)ɹæst/

• (verb)

  (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kənˈtɹɑːst/

• (Northern England, Scotland) IPA: /kənˈtɹast/

  (米国発音) enPR: kəntrăst', kŏn'trăst, IPA: /kənˈt(ʃ)ɹæst/, /ˈkɑnt(ʃ)ɹæst/

• 韻: -ɑːst

名詞

contrast (countable and uncountable, plural contrasts)

1. (countable) A difference in lightness, brightness or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
   1. (uncountable) The degree of this difference.

      The red and the orange don't have much contrast between them — I can hardly tell them apart.

   2. (countable) A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
      • 2009 May 4, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Hremail #7”, in Homestar Runner‎, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):

        Ohh, you can't fool me. This thing's top of the line! It's got two contrast knobs!

2. (countable) A difference between two objects, people or concepts.

   Israel is a country of many contrasts.

   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 11:

     ... there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast.

3. (countable) Something that is opposite of or strikingly different from something else.
   • 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 746:

     Why this denunciation of idolatry at this point? And why are Shabbat and the sanctuary mentioned as contrasts to idol worship?

4. (countable, uncountable, rhetoric) Antithesis.
5. (uncountable, medicine) Contrast medium

派生語

動詞

contrast (third-person singular simple present contrasts, present participle contrasting, simple past and past participle contrasted)

1. (transitive) To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between; to counterpoint.
2. (intransitive, often with with) To form a contrast.

   Foreground and background strongly contrast.

   The color of her dress contrasts very nicely with the black scarf around her neck.

   • 1845, Charles Lyell, Lyell's Travels in North America:

     The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars.

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “to show difference”): liken

派生語

• contrastable
• compare and contrast
• contrasting
• contrastive

参考

• compare