The largest species are red alder ( A. rubra ) on the west coast of North America, and black alder ( A. glutinosa ), native to most of Europe and widely introduced elsewhere, both reaching over 30 m. By contrast, the widespread Alnus viridis ( green alder ) is rarely more than a 5 m tall shrub.

The companion is often described as green, but this is probably a contrast effect.

The lush, green vegetation along the Mediterranean coast and surrounding the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel and southern Syria stands in marked contrast to the arid landscape elsewhere.

In contrast kilts worn by Irish pipers are made from solid-colour cloth, with saffron or green being the most widely used colours.

Red and green form the third great contrast, and orange and purple the fourth.

In contrast to the green lawns and red bricks in their Shanghai abode, the Tange family took up residence in a thatched roof farmhouse in Imabari on the island of Shikoku.

Coleus Inflorescence the southeast Asian species Solenostemon scutellarioides have been selected for their colorful variegated leaves, typically with sharp contrast between the colors ; the leaves may be green, pink, yellow, black ( a very dark purple ), maroon, and red ( somewhat resembling the unrelated caladium ).

In contrast to the central part of the Upper Silesian Industry Area a short distance to the north, Rybnik enjoys the reputation of a " green " city having a relatively clean environment.

In stark contrast to its neighbour, green and fertile Great Cumbrae, Little Cumbrae is a rough and rocky island.

Decorations on emu eggs take advantage of the contrast in colours between the dark green mottled outside of the shell and the shell-underlay.

Town & Country offers a quiet, restful, green residential landscape, in contrast to the more intensely developed areas typical of St. Louis County.

The contrast between the refurbished copper installed in 2010 and the green color of the original 1894 copper is clearly seen.

In contrast to public security police, PAP servicemen, also called as " Armed Policemen ( 武警战士 )", wear olive green instead of the blue uniforms of the Public Security Department People's Police ( 公安机关人民警察, abbreviated 公安民警 ) and other branches of People's Police ( 人民警察, abbreviated 民警 ).

When exposed to green light alone, the emulsions produce a low contrast image because each is differently sensitised to green.

By varying the ratio of blue to green light, the contrast of the print can be continuously varied between these extremes, creating all contrast grades from 00 to 5.

In contrast, such a coloring is impossible in the case of a non-bipartite graph, such as a triangle: after one node is colored blue and another green, the third vertex of the triangle is connected to vertices of both colors, preventing it from being assigned either color.

By contrast, at sufficiently high loadings, praseodymium glass is distinctly green, rather than pure yellow.

Best known were the German Jäger units who were distinguished by their peace-time wear of dark green tunics and shakos ( in contrast to the dark blue tunics and spiked helmets of most German infantry ).

The usual wax color was aniline purple, a cheap, moderately durable pigment that provided good contrast, but masters were also manufactured in red, green, blue, black, and the hard-to-find orange, yellow, and brown.

By contrast, green papers, which are issued much more frequently, are more open-ended.

Neon indicator lamps are normally orange, and are frequently used with a coloured filter over them to improve contrast and change their colour to red or a redder orange, or less often green.

They are called " land plants " because they live primarily in terrestrial habitats, in contrast with the related green algae that are primarily aquatic.

In contrast to other wiped colour episodes from the Pertwee era where the missing colour information had been inadvertently recorded on the surviving black and white film copies as a sequence of visual artefacts / dots or chroma dots, in the case of Episode 1 of this story this information was found to be incomplete, and only the red and green colour signal information was recoverable, requiring the missing blue signal information to be obtained via other means.

In contrast, the largest North American community north of the circle, Sisimiut ( Greenland ), has approximately 5, 000 inhabitants, while between Canada and the USA, Barrow, Alaska is the largest settlement with circa 4, 000 inhabitants.

By contrast, the Maxwell equations describing electromagnetism can be understood to be the Hodge equations of a principal U ( 1 )- bundle or circle bundle π: P → M with fiber U ( 1 ).

The squalor that existed beneath the glamour and gloss of Regency society provided sharp contrast to Prince Regent's social circle.

Dovber, in contrast, set up his court in Mezhirichi, where his lameness restricted him, and devoted his main focus to articulating the mystical-philosophical system within the Baal Shem Tov's teachings to his close circle of disciples, who would lead the future movement.

Noting that the clumsy " created " nature of the young Hemingway in A Moveable Feast is well-established as fraudulent ( e. g., Hemingway had access to large sums of money during the time he was in Paris, yet portrayed himself as " starving "), Kennedy points out that Hemingway writes as if he were the only person in his literary circle in Paris who was sexually stable and healthy, in contrast to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein.

This would have presented a dramatic contrast of appearance to the newer, white-painted House, although the latter was much smaller and really a modern version of an older tradition of private ' garden houses ', not a public building, and one used only by the queen's privileged inner circle.

However, with the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft published guidelines for a new Windows Logo key that incorporates the Windows logo recessed in a chamfered lowered circle with a contrast ratio of at least 3: 1 with respect to background that the key is applied to.

In contrast to the stronger requirement that a continuous extension to the circle exists, it is a lemma of Fatou that a general element of H < sup >∞</ sup > can be radially extended to the circle almost everywhere.

Oliveira's lover in Paris, she is lively, an active participant in her own adventures, and a stark contrast to Horacio's other friends, who he has formed a philosophical social circle with called the Serpent's Club.

I have adjusted the contrast and added a circle around the location.

In contrast, offline gestures are usually processed after the interaction is finished ; e. g. a circle is drawn to activate a context menu.

By contrast, the circle of fifths is fundamentally a discrete structure, and there is no obvious way to assign pitch classes to each of its points.

In contrast to the circle formation in breakdancing, the Apache line allows multiple opposing dancers or crews to face each other and execute their burns.

By contrast, convolving by a circle ( i. e., a circular box blur ) would more accurately reproduce the bokeh effect.

By contrast, Goethe's more empirical approach led him to recognize the essential role of ( nonspectral ) magenta in a complete color circle, a role that it still has in all modern color systems.

They have prominent oral cilia, which are arranged as a collar and lapel, in contrast to the choreotrichs where they form a complete circle.

By contrast, an internal tangency is one in which the two circles curve in the same way at their point of contact ; the two circles lie on the same side of the tangent line, and one circle encloses the other.

The short poems grouped at the end of the volume as `` Thoughts in Loneliness '' is, as Professor Book indicated, in sharp contrast with the others.

The limits are suggested by an imaginary experiment: contrast the perceptual skill of English professors with that of their colleagues in discriminating among motor cars, political candidates, or female beauty.

Try some closeups on Southern blossoms to provide a welcome contrast with the many long-view scenics you'll be making.

Built upon seven hills, Istanbul, like Rome, is one of the most ancient cities in the world, filled with splendor and contrast.

It is an exotic place, so different from the ordinary that the casual tourist is likely to see at first only the contrast and the ugliness of narrow streets lined with haphazard houses.

A red filter, Zeiss barrier filter with the code ( Schott ) designation BG 23, was also used in the ocular lens assembly as it improved the contrast between specific and nonspecific fluorescence.

Their experience is quite in contrast with that of children of upper- and upper-middle-class native-born parents, who are more likely to regard education as good for its own sake and to discount the vocational emphases in the curriculum.

Perhaps one way to sharpen our sense of the modernity of Utopian communism is to contrast it with the principal earlier types of communistic theory.

It did not serve to contrast the existing order of society with a possible alternative order, because the age of innocence was not a possible alternative once man had sinned.

These areas, by virtue of their abrupt density of pattern, stated the literal surface with such new and superior force that the resulting contrast drove the simulated printing into a depth from which it could be rescued -- and set to shuttling again -- only by conventional perspective ; ;

For the illusion of depth created by the contrast between the affixed material and everything else gives way immediately to an illusion of forms in bas-relief, which gives way in turn, and with equal immediacy, to an illusion that seems to contain both -- or neither.

and these capitals seem in turn to be pushed back by their placing, and by contrast with the corporeality of the woodgraining.

We were to discover, in fact, that quite a number of people share with us the impression that, in contrast to other Soviet regions, Moscow's atmosphere is depressingly subdued and official.

His personality appears more striking by contrast with Marina, who is -- perhaps purposely -- rather superficially characterized.

We have a brief glimpse of the Tsar's public personality, the `` official Boris '', but our real focus is on the excitement of the crowd -- a significant contrast with its halfhearted acclamation in the opening scene, its bitter resentment and fury in the final act.

in fact, a contrast is often drawn in this regard with the `` impersonal '' Roman Catholic parish.

The Senate launched the 87th Congress with its own version of an ancient liberal-conservative battle, but in contrast with the House's guerrilla war it seemed as pro forma as a Capitol guide's speech.

By contrast, a good deal of nuclear pacifism begins with the contingencies and the probabilities, and not with the moral nature of the action to be done ; ;

This is in contrast to the family with whom he boards.

The audience, according to Edward Cushing, responded with " a demonstration of enthusiasm impressively genuine in contrast to the conventional applause which new music, good and bad, ordinarily arouses.

Both ethical altruism and ethical egoism contrast with utilitarianism, which is the view that every individual's well-being ( including one's own ) is of equal moral importance.

The Proto-Sinatic or Proto Canaanite script and the Ugaritic script were the first scripts with limited number of signs, in contrast to the other widely used writing systems at the time, Cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Linear B.