contraction
/kɒnˈtɹæk.ʃən/
qisqarish taxminiy tarjima
Misollar
- Hiccups are involuntary contraction of the diaphragm.
- "Can't" is a contraction of "can" and "not."
- I used to think "shalt" was a contraction of "shall not."
- What am I but a microscopic and temporary contraction of Infinite Space?
ot noun
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A period of economic decline or negative growth.
The country's economic contraction was caused by high oil prices.
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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.
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(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."
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The process of contracting a disease.
the contraction of malaria
Manbalar: Wiktionary (Free Dictionary API orqali), Datamuse, Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), MyMemory.