An obstetrician estimates the progress of childbirth by measuring the time between each contraction.
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Contraction
/kənˈtɹækʃn̩/
Synonyms for "contraction" (113 found)
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Closest matches (23)
Strong matches (34)
Related words (56)
Noun(22 words)
more contractedmuscle actionmuscle contractionmuscle contractionsmuscular contractionphonetic shorteningrecessionrecessionalsrecessionsreductionretrenchingromanian a comprimashort form spellingshorteningshrinkingshrivellingslumpssound reductionspasmthroes
Pronoun(1 words)
Verb(1 words)
won't
Related word relations
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More general
15 entriesdecreasediminutiongrammar conceptlanguagelanguage featurelinguisticsphonologyreductionshorteningshrinkageshrinkingspeech processstep-downwordword form
More specific
7 entriesCollocations
5 entriescontraction rulenegative contractionspronoun contractionteach contractionsuse contractions
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
2 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesTranslations
46 translations across 28 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- verkleining noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Bulgarian
2 entries- свиване noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
- скъсяване noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Burmese
2 entries- ကျုံ့ခြင်း noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
- ချုံ့ခြင်း noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Catalan
1 entries- contracció noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 收縮 /收缩 noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Finnish
1 entries- supistuminen noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
French
1 entries- contraction noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
German
4 entries- Abnahme noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
- Abnehmen noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
- Kontraktion noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
- Minderung noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Hebrew
1 entries- התכווצות noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Hungarian
2 entries- összehúzás noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
- összehúzódás noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Indonesian
1 entries- kontraksi noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Italian
1 entries- contrazione noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Japanese
1 entries- 収縮 noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Korean
1 entries- 단축 noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- кыскаруу noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Latin
1 entries- contractiō noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Macedonian
1 entries- скрату́вање noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Norwegian
2 entries- forminskning noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
- kontraksjon noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Occitan
1 entries- contraccion noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Portuguese
1 entries- contração noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Romanian
1 entries- contracție noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Russian
2 entries- сжа́тие noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
- сокраще́ние noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Spanish
1 entries- contracción noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Swedish
2 entries- kontraktion noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
- minskning noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Tagalog
1 entries- daginsin noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Tajik
1 entries- дардгирӣ noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Thai
1 entries- การหดตัว noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Uzbek
1 entries- qisqarish noun ((sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
"Can't" is a contraction of "can" and "not."
Source: tatoeba (7697594)
In addition to the manufacturing data, China's non-manufacturing services sector activity also posted its deepest contraction on record, dropping to 29.6 from 54.1 in January, according to another survey by China's NBS.
Source: tatoeba (8590454)
Investment bank Goldman Sachs forecast no U.S. economic growth for the first quarter of this year and an annualized rate contraction of 5% in the second quarter.
Source: tatoeba (8618402)
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