contraction

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /kənˈtɹækʃn̩/|/kɒn-/|/kənˈtɹakʃn̩/|/kɔn-/    美 /kənˈtɹækʃ(ə)n/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Senses relating to becoming involved with or entering into, especially entering into a contract.; An act of incurring debt; also (generally), an act of acquiring something (generally negative). countable,uncountable
    — Our contraction of debt in this quarter has reduced our ability to attract investors.
  2. Senses relating to becoming involved with or entering into, especially entering into a contract.; An act of entering into a contract or agreement; specifically, a contract of marriage; a contracting; also (obsolete), a betrothal. archaic,countable,uncountable
  3. Senses relating to becoming involved with or entering into, especially entering into a contract.; The process of contracting or becoming infected with a disease. countable,uncountable
    — the contraction of malaria
  4. Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.; A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.; An abridgement or shortening of writing, etc.; an abstract, a summary; also (uncountable), brevity, conciseness. archaic,countable,obsolete,uncountable
  5. Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.; A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.; A stage of wound healing during which the wound edges are gradually pulled together. countable,uncountable
  6. Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.; A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.; A shortening of a muscle during its use; specifically, a strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth. countable,uncountable
    — Though occasionally a “flatliner” can be revived with a defib, it is most commonly used to change the uncoordinated contractions of the heart (fibrillation) into a normal sinus rhythm—that is, to defibrillate the heart.
  7. Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.; A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.; A period of economic decline or negative growth. countable,uncountable
    — The country’s economic contraction was caused by high oil prices.
  8. Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.; A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.; A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are reduced or lost, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word. countable,uncountable
    — In the English words didn’t, that’s, and wanna, the endings -n’t, -’s, and -a arose by contraction.
  9. Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.; A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.; In the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark. countable,uncountable
    — Don’t is a contraction of do not; and ’til is a contraction of until.
  10. Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.; A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.; Synonym of syncope (“the elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable”). countable,uncountable
  11. Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.; A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.; The preimage of the given ideal under the given homomorphism. countable,uncountable
  12. Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.; A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.; A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity. broadly,countable,uncountable
  13. Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.; An act of collecting or gathering. countable,obsolete,rare,uncountable

词形变化

contractions plural

词汇关系

衍生词
aftercontraction anticontraction Braxton Hicks contraction cocontraction concentric contraction contractional contractionary contractionism contractionist contractionless decontraction eccentric contraction edge contraction haustral contraction hypercontraction intercontraction isometric contraction isotonic contraction lanthanide contraction length contraction Lorentz contraction Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction mutated contraction noncontraction overcontraction precontraction recontraction supercontraction vasocontraction wanna contraction
相关词
contract contractable contractant contractation contracted contractedly contractedness contractee contractible contractile contractility contracting contractive contractly contractor contractual contractually contractural contracture contractured extract retract tractile traction omission

词源

PIE word
*ḱóm
From Late Middle English contraccioun, contraxion (“spasm, contraction; constriction, shrinking; act of pressing together”), from Old French contraction (modern French contraction), from Latin contractiō(n) (“a drawing together, contraction; abridgement, shortening; dejection, despondency”), from contrahō (“to draw things together, assemble, collect, gather; to enter into a contract”) + -tiō(n) (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or their results). Contrahō is derived from con- (prefix denoting a bringing together of objects) + trahō (“to drag, pull”) (probably from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to drag, pull; to run”)). By surface analysis, contract + -ion (suffix denoting actions or processes, or their results).
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