contraction

contracción

Acción de un músculo al tensarse, especialmente los del útero durante el parto.

En inglés sencillo: A tightening of a muscle, especially one in the womb during childbirth.

• She felt her first contraction.
• The contractions came every five minutes.
• Muscle contraction allows you to bend your arm.

Sinónimos: tightening

Antónimos: relaxation

Expresiones frecuentes: muscle contraction, painful contraction, feel a contraction

contracción, reducción

Proceso por el que algo se vuelve más pequeño, corto o estrecho.

En inglés sencillo: The process of becoming smaller, shorter, or tighter.

• Cooling causes contraction.
• The metal's contraction left a gap in the joint.
• The country experienced a sharp economic contraction.

Cómo se usa: contraction of something (Cooling causes contraction of the metal.); contraction in something (There was a contraction in demand for new cars.)

Sinónimos: shrinkage, reduction

Antónimos: expansion

Expresiones frecuentes: thermal contraction, economic contraction, contraction in size

contracción

Forma reducida de una o varias palabras; las letras omitidas suelen indicarse con un apóstrofo.

En inglés sencillo: A short form of a word or words, often using an apostrophe to show missing letters.

• Don't is a contraction.
• We use contractions often when we speak.
• Is you're a contraction of you are?

Cómo se usa: contraction of something (Can't is a contraction of cannot.)

Sinónimos: shortened form, short form

Expresiones frecuentes: use a contraction, common contraction, contraction of something

contracción, adquisición

Acción de asumir una deuda o adquirir algo no deseado, como una enfermedad.

En inglés sencillo: The act of taking on a debt or acquiring something unwanted, such as a disease.

• The contraction of debt worried the directors.
• They investigated the circumstances surrounding his contraction of the disease.
• The contract forbids the contraction of further financial obligations.

Cómo se usa: contraction of something (The agreement restricts the contraction of new debt.)

Sinónimos: incurrence, acquisition

Expresiones frecuentes: contraction of debt, contraction of disease, contraction of liabilities

contracción fonológica

Cambio de sonidos que acorta una palabra independiente y la une a otra.

En inglés sencillo: A sound change that shortens a separate word so it becomes attached to another word.

• Contraction can remove sounds from a word.
• Through contraction, not becomes the attached form n't.
• The lecture explained contraction in rapid speech.

Cómo se usa: contraction of A into B (The study examines the contraction of full words into clitics.)

Sinónimos: cliticization

Expresiones frecuentes: phonological contraction, contraction of sounds, contraction into clitics