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contraction

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French contraction, from Latin contracti?. Equivalent to contract +? -ion

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /k?n?t?æk.??n/, /k?n?t?æk.??n/
  • (US) IPA(key): /k?n?t?æk.??n/
  • Rhymes: -æk??n

Noun

contraction (countable and uncountable, plural contractions)

  1. A reversible reduction in size.
  2. (economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth.
    The country's economic contraction was caused by high oil prices.
  3. (biology) A shortening of a muscle during its use.
  4. (medicine) A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
  5. (linguistics) 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.
    In English didn't, that's, and wanna, the endings -n't, -'s, and -a arose by contraction.
  6. (English orthography) A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.
    "Don't" is a contraction of "do not."
  7. A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
  8. (medicine) The process of contracting a disease.
  9. (phonetics) Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.
  10. The acquisition of something, generally negative.
    Our contraction of debt in this quarter has reduced our ability to attract investors.
  11. (medicine) A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.

Antonyms

  • expansion
  • dilatation

Derived terms

Related terms

  • contract
  • contractation
  • contractive
  • haustral contraction

Translations

See also

  • omission
  • Category:English contractions
  • contraction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin contractio, contractionem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k??.t?ak.sj??/

Noun

contraction f (plural contractions)

  1. contraction

Related terms

  • contracter
  • contrat

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choking

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?t???k??/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?t?o?k??/

Noun

choking (countable and uncountable, plural chokings)

  1. The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.
  2. The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breath.
  3. The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation.

Translations

Verb

choking

  1. present participle of choke

Anagrams

  • Hocking, hocking

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