CONTRASTING


Meaning of CONTRASTING in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

contrasting colours (= ones that are different from each other in a way that looks attractive )

You need to have one or two contrasting colours in the room.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

colours

This means that the sharply contrasting colours green and black will look just the same in the black and white print.

Two contrasting colours such a blue and yellow can look effective when freely mingled, each intensifying the impact of the other.

It is much easier to create this design with contrasting colours overlapping each other to show off the shapes of the flowers.

Pay attention to contrasting colours , taking care not to put two rows of the same item side by side.

Glue two contrasting colours together as shown and use Blu-tack to stick them to walls and doors.

They make up a wide pair, with beautiful contrasting colours .

This striping becomes synonymous with social attachment and is therefore the ideal pattern for evolution to exaggerate with contrasting colours .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Wear the jacket and skirt with contrasting pieces for a different look.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

How long should the contrasting third sentence be?

Knee-high stockings come with contrasting turn-back cuff.

Now consider three contrasting experiments with such a piece of apparatus.

Related to perception were two strongly contrasting ways of taking in and becoming aware of what was happening.

The body is heavy and fairly thickset, and the contrasting skin surface markings consist of zigzag or diamond-shaped patterns.

The port had two sharply contrasting social divides, on either side of the harbour.

The two other main functions concerned contrasting ways of judging and ordering these perceptions.

The village lies in the heart of Winifred Holtby country, between the main Wolds area and the contrasting lowlands of Holderness.

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