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adjective
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studying or exhibiting the congruences and differences between two languages or dialects without reference to their origins: contrastive linguistics.
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Contrastive
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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World English Dictionary
| contrast | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | ( |
| —n | |
| 2. | distinction or emphasis of difference by comparison of opposite or dissimilar things, qualities, etc (esp in the phrases by contrast, in contrast toorwith) |
| 3. | a person or thing showing notable differences when compared with another |
| 4. | (in painting) the effect of the juxtaposition of different colours, tones, etc |
| 5. | a. (of a photographic emulsion) the degree of density measured against exposure used |
| b. the extent to which adjacent areas of an optical image, esp on a television screen or in a photographic negative or print, differ in brightness | |
| 6. | psychol the phenomenon that when two different but related stimuli are presented close together in space and/or time they are perceived as being more different than they really are |
| [C16: (n): via French from Italian, from contrastare (vb), from Latin contra- against + stare to stand] | |
| con'trastable | |
| —adj | |
| con'trastably | |
| —adv | |
| con'trasting | |
| —adj | |
| con'trastive | |
| —adj | |
| con'trastively | |
| —adv | |
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