Constriction vs. Contraction

Constrictionnoun

The act of constricting, the state of being constricted, or something that constricts.

Contractionnoun

A reversible reduction in size.

Constrictionnoun

A narrow part of something; a stricture.

Contractionnoun

(economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth.

‘The country's economic contraction was caused by high oil prices.’;

Constrictionnoun

A compression.

Contractionnoun

(biology) A shortening of a muscle when it is used.

Constrictionnoun

The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression.

Contractionnoun

(medicine) A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.

Constrictionnoun

The state of being constricted; the point where a thing is constricted; a narrowing or binding.

‘A constriction of the parts inservient to speech.’;

Contractionnoun

(linguistics) A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.

‘In English didn't, that's, and wanna, the endings -n't, -'s, and -a arose by contraction.’;

Constrictionnoun

a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel

Contractionnoun

(English orthography) A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.

‘"Don't" is a contraction of "do not."’;

Constrictionnoun

tight or narrow compression

Contractionnoun

A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.

Constrictionnoun

a feeling of tightness in some part of the body;

‘he felt a constriction in her chest’; ‘emotion caused a constriction of his throat’;

Contractionnoun

(medicine) The process of contracting a disease.

‘the contraction of malaria’;

Constrictionnoun

the action or process of compressing

Contractionnoun

(phonetics) Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.

Constriction

Constriction is a method used by various snake species to kill or subdue their prey. Although some species of venomous and mildly venomous snakes do use constriction to subdue their prey, most snakes which use constriction lack venom.

Contractionnoun

The acquisition of something, generally negative.

‘Our contraction of debt in this quarter has reduced our ability to attract investors.’;

Contractionnoun

(medicine) A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.

Contractionnoun

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 tendon; the contraction produced by cold.

Contractionnoun

The process of shortening an operation.

Contractionnoun

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.

Contractionnoun

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

Contractionnoun

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.

Contractionnoun

A marriage contract.

Contractionnoun

(physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)

Contractionnoun

the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together;

‘the contraction of a gas on cooling’;

Contractionnoun

a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds;

‘`won't' is a contraction of `will not'’; ‘`o'clock' is a contraction of `of the clock'’;

Contractionnoun

the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope