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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
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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.
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2. (Math.) The process of shortening an operation.
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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.
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4. Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase;
-- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for
criminal conversation, etc.
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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.
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6. A marriage contract. [Obs.] --Shak.
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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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  • What Are Contractions in Writing? Definition and Examples - Grammarly
    6 In American English, avoid subject contractions in the negative present perfect tense There’s another rule about contractions, again particular to American English, related to subject contractions in the present perfect tense (used for past actions that are related to or continue into the present) When the present perfect tense is used in the negative, it’s incorrect to use a subject





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