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词汇 contradistinction
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Definition of contradistinction in English:

contradistinction

noun kɒntrədɪˈstɪŋ(k)ʃ(ə)nˌkɑntrədəˈstɪŋ(k)ʃ(ə)n
mass noun
  • Distinction made by contrasting the different qualities of two things.

    对比的不同,对照的区别

    such a process is known as induction, in contradistinction to the deduction process
    Example sentencesExamples
    • As a unique political society, self-defined in deliberate contradistinction to Europe and modern Britain, the United States has perennially baffled, perplexed, and annoyed Eurocentrists.
    • If we remember that capital is thus a term used in contradistinction to land and labor, we at once see that nothing properly included under either one of these terms can be properly classed as capital.
    • Importantly, for Robert, in contradistinction to Kant, civil society cannot supplement this abstraction with the relative concreteness and historicity of traditions contractually entered into and upheld.
    • So rapacious were some accountant trustees, in contradistinction to legal practitioner trustees, that bankruptcy trusteeships were referred to in parliament and in the press as ‘legalised robbery’.
    • Searle's picture leaves open the possibility of free will, defined here in contradistinction to determinism.
    • In perfect contradistinction is the tangy, crunchy coleslaw.
    • All of that, in our submission, strongly supports the position that the word ‘amend’ as used in 1904 was not being used in contradistinction to ‘repeal’.
    • These fabulist authors have gone even further by establishing themselves as an ‘institution’ that is juxtaposing its narrative form in contradistinction to the common banal discourse of society.
    • What this serves to do is reinscribe and produce the identity of the middle-class consumer subject in contradistinction to that of the common working masses.
    • Thanks partly to Thomas, the concert orchestra became an American specialty, in contradistinction to the pit orchestras of Europe.
    • Social history emerged either as a marginal or as an oppositional subdiscipline or approach, in contradistinction from the received type of conventional history.
    • Their writings, have concentrated mainly on urban women and society, totally ignoring the status of rural women who labor side by side with men in the fields, outside their homes, in contradistinction to the segregated women of the city.
    • In this way he was a real specialist, in contradistinction to the town specialists who are identified with certain diseases or disasters.
    • The social left had an opportunity to shape the narrative of this event, to show that social progress for women is a defining characteristic in American society, in contradistinction to the societies of the Taliban and Saudi Arabia.
    • In contradistinction, this is a philosophy that ought to be at the core of a democratic society, committed to openness, transparency and accountability.
    • It is also the catalyst for an even more bloodcurdling event, in which we realize that David is not the paragon of stability that he sometimes seemed in contradistinction to Katia.
    • Every day it advances and delineates the independent attitude of the international working class, in contradistinction to other social classes, to every major political development.
    • The principal issue for the mystery plays was the representation of the divine, which conventionally was signified by a burnished gold mask in contradistinction to the blackening of the devil.
    • In contradistinction to less reflective celebrants of all things Irish, Kiberd willingly embraces the invented character of contemporary Irish culture.
    • In contradistinction, the other half of the biennial is made up of work from elsewhere in the world.
    Synonyms
    dissimilarity, contrast, distinction, distinctness, differentiation

Definition of contradistinction in US English:

contradistinction

nounˌkäntrədəˈstiNG(k)SH(ə)nˌkɑntrədəˈstɪŋ(k)ʃ(ə)n
  • Distinction made by contrasting the different qualities of two things.

    对比的不同,对照的区别

    the bacterium is termed “rough” in contradistinction to its ordinary smooth form
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Social history emerged either as a marginal or as an oppositional subdiscipline or approach, in contradistinction from the received type of conventional history.
    • In this way he was a real specialist, in contradistinction to the town specialists who are identified with certain diseases or disasters.
    • In perfect contradistinction is the tangy, crunchy coleslaw.
    • Searle's picture leaves open the possibility of free will, defined here in contradistinction to determinism.
    • If we remember that capital is thus a term used in contradistinction to land and labor, we at once see that nothing properly included under either one of these terms can be properly classed as capital.
    • Thanks partly to Thomas, the concert orchestra became an American specialty, in contradistinction to the pit orchestras of Europe.
    • Their writings, have concentrated mainly on urban women and society, totally ignoring the status of rural women who labor side by side with men in the fields, outside their homes, in contradistinction to the segregated women of the city.
    • All of that, in our submission, strongly supports the position that the word ‘amend’ as used in 1904 was not being used in contradistinction to ‘repeal’.
    • It is also the catalyst for an even more bloodcurdling event, in which we realize that David is not the paragon of stability that he sometimes seemed in contradistinction to Katia.
    • Every day it advances and delineates the independent attitude of the international working class, in contradistinction to other social classes, to every major political development.
    • Importantly, for Robert, in contradistinction to Kant, civil society cannot supplement this abstraction with the relative concreteness and historicity of traditions contractually entered into and upheld.
    • So rapacious were some accountant trustees, in contradistinction to legal practitioner trustees, that bankruptcy trusteeships were referred to in parliament and in the press as ‘legalised robbery’.
    • As a unique political society, self-defined in deliberate contradistinction to Europe and modern Britain, the United States has perennially baffled, perplexed, and annoyed Eurocentrists.
    • In contradistinction to less reflective celebrants of all things Irish, Kiberd willingly embraces the invented character of contemporary Irish culture.
    • The principal issue for the mystery plays was the representation of the divine, which conventionally was signified by a burnished gold mask in contradistinction to the blackening of the devil.
    • The social left had an opportunity to shape the narrative of this event, to show that social progress for women is a defining characteristic in American society, in contradistinction to the societies of the Taliban and Saudi Arabia.
    • These fabulist authors have gone even further by establishing themselves as an ‘institution’ that is juxtaposing its narrative form in contradistinction to the common banal discourse of society.
    • In contradistinction, this is a philosophy that ought to be at the core of a democratic society, committed to openness, transparency and accountability.
    • What this serves to do is reinscribe and produce the identity of the middle-class consumer subject in contradistinction to that of the common working masses.
    • In contradistinction, the other half of the biennial is made up of work from elsewhere in the world.
    Synonyms
    dissimilarity, contrast, distinction, distinctness, differentiation
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