direct contrast
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdirectandcontrast
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direct
adjective
uk/daɪˈrekt/us/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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contrast
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈkɒn.trɑːst/us/ˈkɑːn.træst/
an obvious difference between two or ...
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(Definition ofdirectandcontrastfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This is indirectcontrastto issues of pronunciation and accurate lexical usage, which had more potential to seriously interfere with understanding.
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Of course, this phrase is introduced indirectcontrastwith the common description of locales as 'point-free topologies'.
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This is indirectcontrastwith the emphasis in the literature, and in legislation and policies.
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Indirectcontrastto scientific enquiry, theological enquiry often shows itself to be markedly irrational.
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Such sympathies are often indirectcontrastto the academic (and middle-class) scholar.
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Indirectcontrastto the modern ideas on a "construction of reality" in art, science, and technology, this reality reveals itself as the unpredicted and the random.
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That is indirectcontrastwith the case of a competitive frictionless market for emission permits, where such a decision does not depend on any individual firm's characteristics.
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This is indirectcontrastto what would have been predicted from his scores on the phonological awareness measures administered as part of the assessment battery.
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Working conditions, industrial relations, consultations, permanency of work—all of these will be indirectcontrastin these new industries.
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That is indirectcontrastwith the decrease in regulations supposed to be for the benefit of business.
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This is indirectcontrastto the way our authorities carry on business.
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This is indirectcontrastto the reality of the situation we are all experiencing day by day.
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This is indirectcontrastto the late 1970s when low productivity meant that increases in earnings fed through to higher prices and increased inflation.
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This duality was in verydirectcontrastto the views of the 19th century.
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I chose the word "worsenment"in this context to provide adirectcontrastto"betterment".
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It is indirectcontrastto the new building done in the rural areas in past times.
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That is indirectcontrastto the aims of our social exclusion unit, which seeks a mixed residential pattern in our inner cities.
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Of course, this is indirectcontrastto the direct grant schools which usually do not open their facilities.
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That is a verydirectcontrastwith the somewhat barrack-like, though good, conditions in our own compounds.
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