adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
contrasting colours (= ones that are different from each other in a way that looks attractive )
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You need to have one or two contrasting colours in the room.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
colours
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This means that the sharply contrasting colours green and black will look just the same in the black and white print.
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Two contrasting colours such a blue and yellow can look effective when freely mingled, each intensifying the impact of the other.
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It is much easier to create this design with contrasting colours overlapping each other to show off the shapes of the flowers.
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Pay attention to contrasting colours , taking care not to put two rows of the same item side by side.
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Glue two contrasting colours together as shown and use Blu-tack to stick them to walls and doors.
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They make up a wide pair, with beautiful contrasting colours .
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This striping becomes synonymous with social attachment and is therefore the ideal pattern for evolution to exaggerate with contrasting colours .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Wear the jacket and skirt with contrasting pieces for a different look.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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How long should the contrasting third sentence be?
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Knee-high stockings come with contrasting turn-back cuff.
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Now consider three contrasting experiments with such a piece of apparatus.
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Related to perception were two strongly contrasting ways of taking in and becoming aware of what was happening.
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The body is heavy and fairly thickset, and the contrasting skin surface markings consist of zigzag or diamond-shaped patterns.
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The port had two sharply contrasting social divides, on either side of the harbour.
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The two other main functions concerned contrasting ways of judging and ordering these perceptions.
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The village lies in the heart of Winifred Holtby country, between the main Wolds area and the contrasting lowlands of Holderness.