different between contraction vs defibrillate

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

English

Etymology

de- +? fibrillate

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /di??f?b??le?t/

Verb

defibrillate (third-person singular simple present defibrillates, present participle defibrillating, simple past and past participle defibrillated)

1. (transitive) To stop the fibrillation of the heart in order to restore normal contractions, especially by the use of an electric shock.

Translations

Italian

Verb

defibrillate

1. second-person plural present indicative of defibrillare
2. second-person plural imperative of defibrillare
3. feminine plural of defibrillato