अंग्रेजी अंग्रेजी शब्दकोश

of Contract

Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.

Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views.

Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace.

The state of being contracted; narrowness; meanness; selfishness.

Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibility and dilatability of air.

Capable of contraction.

Contractibility.

tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues.

The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract.

The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.

of Contract

The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold.

The process of shortening an operation.

The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease.

Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc.

The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is.

A marriage contract.

Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.

One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad.