contrast : Idioms & Phrases


contrast material

  • noun a substance that is opaque to x-rays; when administered it allows a radiologist to examine the organ or tissue it fills
    contrast material.
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contrast medium

  • noun a substance that is opaque to x-rays; when administered it allows a radiologist to examine the organ or tissue it fills
    contrast material.
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direct contrast

  • noun the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared
    contrast.
    • in contrast to", "by contrast
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Polar, ∨ Polaric, oppositioncontrast

  • (Logic), an opposition or contrast made by the existence of two opposite conceptions which are the extremes in a species, as white and black in colors; hence, as great an opposition or contrast as possible.
Webster 1913