• the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared
• the act of distinguishing by comparing differences
• a conceptual separation or distinction
• the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors
• the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness)
verb
• put in opposition to show or emphasize differences
• Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
• To partake of (a particular substance, especially food or drink, or action or activity).
• To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
• To experience, go through, undergo.
• To be afflicted with, suffer from.
• (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.
• Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
• (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
• To give birth to.
• To engage in sexual intercourse with.
• To accept as a romantic partner.
• (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
• (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
• (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
• (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
• To defeat in a fight; take.
• (obsolete outside Ireland) To be able to speak (a language).
• To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
• To trick, to deceive.
• (often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
• (often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
• To host someone; to take in as a guest.
• To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
• (of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
• One of a peculiar kind of internal buds, or germs, produced in the interior of certain Bryozoa and sponges. They are protected by a firm covering, and are usually destined to perpetuate the species during the winter season. They burst open and develop in the spring. In some freshwater sponges they serve to preserve the species during the dry season.
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