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contraction 音标拼音: [kəntr'ækʃən] n. 收缩,缩写式,害病 收缩,缩写式,害病 contraction收缩 contraction收缩 contraction n 1: ( physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ ( especially of a muscle or muscle fiber) [ synonym: { contraction}, { muscular contraction}, { muscle contraction}] 2: the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together; " the contraction of a gas on cooling" [ synonym: { compression}, { condensation}, { contraction}] 3: a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds; "` won' t' is a contraction of ` will not'"; "` o' clock' is a contraction of ` of the clock'" 4: the act of decreasing ( something) in size or volume or quantity or scope [ ant: { enlargement}, { expansion}] Contraction \ Con* trac" tion\, n. [ L. contractio: cf. F. contraction.] 1. The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendon; the contraction produced by cold. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Math.) The process of shortening an operation. [ 1913 Webster] 3. The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Gram.) The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne' er for never; can' t for can not; don' t for do not; it' s for it is. [ 1913 Webster] 6. A marriage contract. [ Obs.] -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 57 Moby Thesaurus words for " contraction": Speedwriting, abatement, abbreviation, abridgment, alleviation, apocope, aposiopesis, attenuation, brachygraphy, clipping, coarctation, constriction, crasis, cutting, dampening, damping, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, depreciation, depression, diminishment, diminution, dying, dying off, elision, ellipsis, extenuation, fade- out, languishment, lessening, letup, lowering, miniaturization, mitigation, narrowing, phonography, pruning, reduction, relaxation, sagging, scaling down, shortening, shorthand, simplicity, stenography, stricture, subtraction, syncope, syneresis, tachygraphy, taper, tapering, truncation, weakening |
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