05853924-n 'anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities';
 
Chinese (simplified) 衬托
English foil ( ⊳ ) , enhancer ( ⊳ )
Japanese 引き立て役
Definitions
Japanese
他の物の良い点に注意を引くための比較として機能する何か
― かわいい女の子というのは、引き立て役として目立たない友達を好む
English
anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities
― pretty girls like plain friends as foils
Relations
Hypernym: attention
Semantic Field: cognitionn
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