contraction
/kənˈtɹækʃn̩/
Zusammenziehung
- Plural
- contractions
Bedeutungen
- 1
Zusammenziehung
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
- 2
Zusammenziehung
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)
- 3
Zusammenziehung
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
- 4
Zusammenziehung
Senses relating to becoming involved with or entering into, especially entering into a contract.; The process of contracting or becoming infected with a disease
- 5
Zusammenziehung
Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.; An act of collecting or gathering
- 6
Zusammenziehung
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 togetherselten
- 7
Zusammenziehung
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 childbirthselten
- 8
Zusammenziehung
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 growthselten
- 9
Zusammenziehung
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 wordselten
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Zusammenziehung
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 markselten