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contrast

/ˈkɒntrɑːst/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈkɒntrɑːst/
contrast
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Open ah vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

con - trast -> contrast

Myanmar meaning

(v) ယှဉ်ကြည့်

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contrast /kǝn'trɑ:st; US -'træst/ v

၁။ ~ (A and/with B) (ဆန့် ကျင်ဘက်ချင်း) ယှဉ်ကြည့်သည်။
It is interesting to contrast the two writers. ❍ contrasting his attitude and/with hers.
၂။ ~ (with sb/sth) ပြဒါးတစ်လမ်းသံတစ်လမ်း ဖြစ်သည်။
Her actions contrasted sharply with her promises. ❍ Her actions and her promises contrasted sharply (ie She did not do as she had promised).
/'kɒntrɑ:st; US -træst/ n ~ (to/with sb/sth); ~ (between A and B)
၁။ [U] ခြားနားချက်။ ဆန့်ကျင်ကွဲလွဲချက်။ မတူညီချက်။ Careful contrast of the two plans shows up some key differences. လုပ်ငန်းအစီအစဉ်နှစ်ရပ်ကို သေသေ ချာချာ ယှဉ်ကြည့်လိုက်တော့ အရေးကြီးတဲ့ ကွဲ လွဲချက်တွေ ပေါ် လာတယ်။ ❍ In contrast with their system, ours seems very old-fashioned. သူတို့စနစ်နဲ့ မတူတာကတော့ တို့စနစ် က ခေတ်နောက်ကျနေတာပဲ။
၂။ (က) [U] ဆန့်ကျင်ဘက် သဘော။ The paper is in stark contrast to an earlier report. ❍ The contrast of light and shade is important in photography. ❍ His white hair was in sharp contrast to (ie was very clearly different from) his dark skin.
(ခ) [C usu sing ] ထင်းခနဲမြင်သာသော ခြားနားမှု။ The white walls make a contrast with the black carpet. ❍ There is a remarkable contrast between the two brothers.
(ဂ) [sing] ကွဲ ပြားခြားနားသောအရာ။ The work you did today is quite a contrast to (ie is very much better/worse than) what you did last week.
❏ by/in contrast [IDM ] (တစ်ခုနှင့်တစ်ခု သိသိသာသာ ခြားနားကြောင်း အထူးပြုဖော်ပြသော စကား)။ မတူတာကတော့။ This generation has, by contrast, made the environment a focus of attention. ❍ In contrast, Sargent's film is more of a documentary.
❏ contrasting adj အလွန်ခြားနားသော။ သိသိသာသာ ကွဲ ပြား သော။ မတူညီသော။ contrasting examples/ideas/patterns.

More examples
  • [contrast between] : The contrast between her life before the accident and now
  • In contrast to his predecessor, Bush has little interest in foreign travel.
  • [contrast to] : The little village was a total contrast to San Francisco.
Synonyms
difference, dissimilarity, distinction, disparity, gap, adverse, analogize, antithesis, balance, be a foil to, be contrary to, be dissimilar, be diverse, be unlike, be variable, bracket, collate, compare, comparison, conflict, contradict, contradiction, contradistinction, contraposition, contrariety, converse, depart, deviate, differ, differentiate, differentiation, disagree, disagreement, discriminate, dissimilitude, distinguish, diverge, divergence, diversity, foil, hang, heterogeneity, hold a candle to, incompatibility, incongruousness, inconsistency, inequality, inverse, juxtapose, match up, mismatch, oppose, oppositeness, opposition, reverse, separate, set in opposition, set off, stack up against, stand out, stick out like a sore thumb, unlikeness, variance, variation, vary, versus, vs, weigh
Antonyms
accord, agree, agreement, aid, be alike, be equal, be similar, coincide, concur, conform, conformity, copy, equality, facsimile, harmonize, harmony, help, homogeneousness, join, likeness, peace, same, sameness, similarity, stay, uniformity, unity
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differencedissimilaritydistinctiondisparitygapadverseanalogizeantithesisbalancebe a foil tobe contrary tobe dissimilarbe diversebe unlikebe variablebracketcollatecomparecomparisonconflictcontradictcontradictioncontradistinctioncontrapositioncontrarietyconversedepartdeviate
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