accord vs contrast

accord

verb
  • To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust. 

  • To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant. 

  • To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award. 

  • To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize. 

  • To agree in pitch and tone. 

noun
  • Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act. 

  • Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action. 

  • A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof. 

  • An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit. 

  • An international agreement. 

  • Agreement or harmony of things in general. 

  • A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord. 

contrast

verb
  • To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between. 

  • To form a contrast. 

noun
  • Something that is opposite of or strikingly different from something else. 

  • A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed. 

  • Antithesis. 

  • is a substance used to increase the contrast of structures or fluids within the body in medical imaging. 

  • The degree of this difference. 

  • A difference between two objects, people or concepts. 

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