CPage 390
- English Word Contractile Definition tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues.
- English Word Contractility Definition The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract.
- English Word Contractility Definition The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.
- English Word Contracting Definition of Contract
- English Word Contraction Definition 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.
- English Word Contraction Definition The process of shortening an operation.
- English Word Contraction Definition 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.
- English Word Contraction Definition Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc.
- English Word Contraction Definition 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.
- English Word Contraction Definition A marriage contract.
- English Word Contractive Definition Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.
- English Word Contractor Definition 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.
- English Word Contracture Definition A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles.
- English Word Contradance Definition A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines.
- English Word Contradict Definition To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn.
- English Word Contradict Definition To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist.
- English Word Contradict Definition To oppose in words; to gainsay; to deny, or assert the contrary of, something.
- English Word Contradictable Definition Capable of being contradicting.
- English Word Contradicted Definition of Contradict
- English Word Contradicter Definition one who contradicts.
- English Word Contradicting Definition of Contradict
- English Word Contradiction Definition An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying.
- English Word Contradiction Definition Direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency; incongruity or contrariety; one who, or that which, is inconsistent.
- English Word Contradictional Definition Contradictory; inconsistent; opposing.
- English Word Contradictions Definition Filled with contradictions; inconsistent.
- English Word Contradictions Definition Inclined to contradict or cavil
- English Word Contradictive Definition Contradictory; inconsistent.
- English Word Contradictor Definition A contradicter.
- English Word Contradictories Definition of Contradictory
- English Word Contradictorily Definition In a contradictory manner.