Contraction

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The act of contracting or the state of being contracted. noun

A word, as won't from will not, or phrase, as o'clock from of the clock, formed by omitting or combining some of the sounds of a longer phrase. noun

The formation of such a word. noun

The shortening and thickening of functioning muscle or muscle fiber. noun

A period of decreased business activity. noun

The act of drawing together or shrinking; the condition of becoming smaller in extent or dimensions through the nearer approach to one another of the parts; the state of being contracted; a decrease in volume, bulk, or dimensions, as from loss of heat. noun

The act of making short, of abridging, or of reducing within a narrower compass by any means; the act of lessening or making smaller in amount; the state of being so lessened; reduction; diminution; abridgment: as, a contraction of the currency. noun

Specifically A shortening of a word in pronunciation or in writing: as, can't is a contraction of cannot. noun

In ancient prosody, the use of a single long time or syllable in place of two short times. noun

The act of making a contract; the state of being under a contract, especially one of marriage. noun

In surgery, an abnormal and permanent alteration in the relative position and forms of parts, arising from various causes, as in ankylosis, distortion, clubfoot, wryneck, etc. noun

In mathematics, any device for abridging the mechanical labor of making calculations by diminishing the number of characters written down. noun

The act or process of contracting or acquiring: as, the contraction of a debt. noun

The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted. noun

The process of shortening an operation. noun

The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to. noun

Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc. noun

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. noun

A marriage contract. noun

A reversible reduction in size.

A period of economic decline or negative growth.

A shortening of a muscle when it is used.

A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.

A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.

(English orthography) A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.

A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.

The process of contracting a disease.

Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.

The acquisition of something, generally negative.

A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.

short for contradictory actions Urban Dictionary

An endless and eternal pit devoid of all pleasure and goodness; the nerve center of all imaginable horrors; a putrid, oozing curse upon the world; that which makes us envy the dead; a gigantic, hulking nightmare factory; the ghost of lost freedom that forever haunts your soul; the mindkiller; a smoothie of broken glass, maggots, and metal filings; a mountain of reeking shit. Urban Dictionary

Mafia word when a made guy offers a reward to another to kill a specific person. Urban Dictionary

If you are on Urbandictionary.com or the Urban Dictionary app and are reading this text, you hereby agree to pay the person holding this device and letting you read this text any disclosed amount of cash. Personal deeds (including sexual) are also tolerable. Failure to comply will result in a swift kick in the Gooty Hole by the person holding this device. Other notes: See: Gooty Hole Urban Dictionary

An unwritten, unspoken agreement between certain elements of law enforcement and other lawmen, cherchant, service providers Urban Dictionary

1. an arrangement to have someone murdered by a professional criminal 2. any illegal or unethical arrangement Urban Dictionary

(adj.) Term used to describe a sexual partner who sleeps with you without receiving something first i.e. Dinner, movie, gifts. You still end up paying for it eventually. Origin - UK mobile telephone payment system. Atonym - Pay as you go Urban Dictionary

A contraction, unlike most contractions, that can be made into another contraction with a contraction. Shouldn't + can't = shan't There for, both the words "shouldn't" and "can't", are contractables. Urban Dictionary

A way to combine to perhaps unrelated words in a way that combines their meanings to some capacity and creates a whole new word with a compounded meaning. A process by which larger things such as phrases or multiple words become smaller, such as a single word. Urban Dictionary

Millennial term for spouse or, generally, marriage. Shows the newly discovered disdain for old institutions like marriage. Used as a pejorative about other's spouses preventing sexual relations. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to contraction:
contraction, contraption, contaction, construction, contractor, contradiction, contrition, contraception, contractions, contracting, constriction, counteraction, contection, contractile, contractive, contrafaction, centration, contract in, centractin.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word contraction:
systole, diastole, myosin, contractions, sphincter, dilation, muscle, ventricular, relaxation, muscles, actin, ventricle, atrial, filament, diaphragm, uterus, reflex, skeletal, tensor, cardiac, intracellular, concentric, calcium, bladder, atrium, muscular, relativity, stimulation, smooth, cracks, abdominal, recession, neurons, eccentric, nerve, convergence, vowel, potassium, membrane, receptors, node, activation, fiber, ions, theorem, nervous, contracted, gdp, gravity, hypothesis, graph, metric, tension, mapping, receptor, ion, radius, cooling, decrease, phrase, cells, fluid, velocity, blood, tissue, causes, heart, cell, mechanism, expansion, operator, motor, proteins, binding, occurs, increases, vector, meaning, thermal, stress, pressure, electrical, channels, literally, depends, volume, words, temperature, occur, word, measured, experiment, exercise, phase, oxygen, flow, formula, contracts, constant, explain.

Words that rhyme with contraction:
action, reaction, traction, interaction, fraction, transaction, faction, attraction, abstraction, infraction, distraction, satisfaction, extraction, inaction, dissatisfaction, retraction, taction, diffraction, exaction, subtraction, liquefaction, paction, overreaction, affirmative action, chain reaction, chemical reaction, capillary action, legal action, direct action, gravitational attraction, magnetic attraction, allergic reaction, law of mass action, nuclear reaction, physiological reaction, improper fraction, delayed action, simple fraction, common fraction, endothermic reaction, weak interaction, evasive action, out of action, coming attraction, photochemical reaction, plan of action, physical attraction, immune reaction, pump action, wasserman reaction, conversion reaction, proper fraction, scene of action, hypersensitivity reaction, possible action, complex fraction, accord and satisfaction, anxiety reaction, carrying into action, thermonuclear reaction, police action, conditioned reaction, slide action, insulin reaction, nuclear fusion reaction, social action, conditional reaction, decimal fraction, defense reaction, exothermic reaction, natural action, type i allergic reaction, continued fraction, fundamental interaction, strong interaction, x-ray diffraction, defence reaction, military action, gravitational interaction, law of action and reaction, learned reaction, piano action, electromagnetic interaction, startle reaction, compound fraction, impossible action, party to the action, chemical action, chemical attraction, human action, man of action, group action, in full action, party to the transaction, classaction, telaction.

Adjectives that are often used to describe contraction:
muscular, voluntary, isometric, smooth, tonic, spasmodic, excitation, sudden, active, uterine, cardiac, strong, premature, involuntary, economic, slight, maximal, cicatricial, myocardial, tetanic, concentric, rapid, further, subsequent, induced, simultaneous, thermal, normal, monetary, rhythmic, isotonic, violent, eccentric, sustained, maximum, sharp, severe, pelvic, muscle, atrial, alternate, slow, forceful, skeletal, powerful, excessive, lateral, prolonged, peristaltic, left, continuous, partial, gravitational, painful, gradual, initial, vigorous, spastic, marked, permanent, fiscal, systolic, spontaneous, irregular, extreme, glass, secondary, static, abnormal, continued, vascular, unequal, rhythmical, stronger, steady, isovolumic, weak, abdominal, persistent, diaphragmatic, coordinated, progressive, visible.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective contraction:
coupling, expansion, relaxation, induced, band, values, ratio, stimulated, movement, stress, ring.

Words that sound like contraction:
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