contraction 的定义
- an act or instance of contracting.
- the quality or state of being contracted.
- a shortened form of a word or group of words, with the omitted letters often replaced in written English by an apostrophe, as e'er for ever, isn't for is not, dep't for department.
- Physiology. the change in a muscle by which it becomes thickened and shortened.
- a restriction or withdrawal, as of currency or of funds available as call money.
- a decrease in economic and industrial activity.
contraction 近义词
drawing in; shortening
contraction 的近义词 37 个
- decrease
- deflation
- recession
- reduction
- shrinkage
- abbreviation
- abridgment
- compression
- condensation
- condensing
- confinement
- constriction
- curtailment
- diminution
- dwindling
- elision
- evaporation
- lessening
- narrowing
- omission
- receding
- reducing
- shrinking
- tightening
- withdrawal
- abbreviating
- abridging
- confining
- curtailing
- cutting down
- decreasing
- deflating
- diminishing
- drawing together
- omitting
- tensing
- withdrawing
contraction 的反义词 9 个
更多contraction例句
- The economy’s deep contraction was heavily driven by services.
- When it comes to visualizing expansion and contraction, people often focus on a balloonlike universe whose change in size is described by a “scale factor.”
- In the cyclic universe, however, the smoothing happens during a period of contraction.
- The varying rates of contraction will be most extreme in countries like Thailand, Japan and Spain along with 20 others, where declines could see their populations halved by 2100, a new Lancet report on fertility and population growth scenarios shows.
- The expected population contraction will be due to dropping fertility rates with death rates being either at par with or faster than birth rates in several countries.
- Side effects may include recession, job contraction, 401(k) bruising, recurrent Dow fluctuation, and IRA bleeding.
- “AOL had a history of turmoil—rapid expansion and then rapid contraction,” Bewkes says.
- That would place the country in recession, typically defined as two consecutive quarters of economic contraction...
- The resulting credit contraction would be terrible news for the Italian economy.
- Darwin considered that this protective contraction “was a fundamental element in several of our most important expressions.”
- In fact, incredibly faster, after his once-a-century contraction of short years before.
- I take iowell (with a bar through the ll) to be the usual (Northern) contraction for Iowellis, jewels; F. text, joiau, pl.
- The nick-name of Gigonnet was applied to Bidault on account of a feverish, involuntary contraction of a leg muscle.
- Expansion and contraction broke the high arch and the connexions between the arches.
- Her lowered eyelids had that vague contraction which suggests a tear checked in its course, or a thought suppressed.