| (เนื่องจากผลลัพธ์จากการค้นหา contracts มีน้อย ระบบได้ทดลองค้นหาใหม่โดยใส่ดอกจันทน์ (wild-card) ให้โดยอัตโนมัติ: *contract*) |
มีผลลัพธ์ที่ไม่แสดงผลอยู่ | adhesion contract | (n) a contract that heavily restricts one party while leaving the other free (as some standard form printed contracts); implies inequality in bargaining power, Syn. contract of adhesion | | aleatory contract | (n) a contract whose performance by one party depends on the occurrence of an uncertain contingent event (but if it is contingent on the outcome of a wager it is not enforceable) | | bilateral contract | (n) a contract involving mutual promises (each party is both promisor and promisee) | | braxton-hicks contraction | (n) painless contractions of the muscles of the uterus that continue throughout pregnancy with increasing frequency, Syn. false labor | | breach of contract | (n) a breach of a legal duty; failure to do something that is required in a contract | | conditional contract | (n) a contract whose performance depends on a fact or event that affects legal relations | | contract | (n) a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law | | contract | (n) (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make, Syn. declaration | | contract | (n) a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid, Syn. contract bridge | | contract | (v) enter into a contractual arrangement, Syn. undertake | | contract | (v) be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness, Syn. take, get, Example: He got AIDS; She came down with pneumonia; She took a chill | | contract | (v) make smaller, Example: The heat contracted the woollen garment | | contractile | (adj) capable of contracting or being contracted, Example: the contractile wings of an insect | | contractile organ | (n) a bodily organ that contracts, Syn. contractor | | contractility | (n) the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter | | contract in | (v) consent in writing to pay money to a trade union for political use, Ant. contract out | | contraction | (n) (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber), Syn. muscle contraction, muscular contraction | | contraction | (n) a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds, Example: `won't' is a contraction of `will not'; `o'clock' is a contraction of `of the clock' | | contraction | (n) the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope, Ant. expansion | | contract killing | (n) a murder carried out on agreement with a hired killer | | contract law | (n) that branch of jurisprudence that studies the rights and obligations of parties entering into contracts | | contract offer | (n) offer by an employer to contract to pay an employee at a given rate | | contractor | (n) someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things | | contractor | (n) the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps, Syn. declarer | | contractor | (n) (law) a party to a contract | | contract out | (v) assign a job to someone outside one's own business | | contract out | (v) refuse to pay a levy to a union for political use, Ant. contract in | | contractual | (adj) relating to or part of a binding legal agreement, Example: contractual obligations | | contractually | (adv) by virtue of a contract, Example: they were contractually responsible | | contracture | (n) an abnormal and usually permanent contraction of a muscle | | cost-plus contract | (n) a contract in which the contractor is paid his total cost plus a stated percentage of profit | | defense contractor | (n) a contractor concerned with the development and manufacture of systems of defense | | employment contract | (n) contract between employer and employee, Syn. employment agreement | | futures contract | (n) an agreement to buy or sell a specific amount of a commodity or financial instrument at a particular price on a stipulated future date; the contract can be sold before the settlement date | | gambling contract | (n) a contract whose performance by one party is contingent on the outcome of a bet; unenforceable by statute in most jurisdictions | | labor contract | (n) contract between labor and management governing wages and benefits and working conditions, Syn. collective agreement, labor agreement | | marriage contract | (n) a prenuptial agreement or contract, Syn. marriage settlement | | oral contract | (n) an agreement that is not in writing and is not signed by the parties but is a real existing contract that lacks only the formal requirement of a memorandum to render it enforceable in litigation | | output contract | (n) a contract in which you promise to deliver your entire output to the other party who promises to accept it | | premature ventricular contraction | (n) irregularity of cardiac rhythm; recurrent occurrences can be a precursor of ventricular fibrillation, Syn. PVC | | purchase contract | (n) a contract stating the terms of a purchase, Syn. purchase agreement | | quasi contract | (n) a contract created by law for reasons of justice without any expression of assent | | requirements contract | (n) a contract in which you agree to purchase all your requirements of a particular sort from one party | | service contract | (n) a contract for maintenance services | | severable contract | (n) a contract which, in the event of a breach by one of the parties, can be considered as several independent agreements expressed in a single instrument | | social contract | (n) an implicit agreement among people that results in the organization of society; individual surrenders liberty in return for protection | | subcontract | (n) a contract assigning to another party some obligations of a prior contract | | subcontract | (v) arranged for contracted work to be done by others, Syn. farm out, job | | subcontract | (v) work under a subcontract; engage in a subcontract | | subcontractor | (n) someone who enters into a subcontract with the primary contractor |
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| | Contract | v. i. 1. To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet. [ 1913 Webster ] Years contracting to a moment. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Contract | a. [ L. contractus, p. p. ] Contracted; affianced; betrothed. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Contract | n. [ L. contractus, fr. contrahere: cf. F. contrat, formerly also contract. ] 1. (Law) The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. The act of formally betrothing a man and woman. [ 1913 Webster ] This is the the night of the contract. Longwellow. Syn. -- Covenant; agreement; compact; stipulation; bargain; arrangement; obligation. See Covenant. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Contract | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Contracted; p. pr. & vb. n. Contracting. ] [ L. contractus, p. p. of contrahere to contract; con- + trahere to draw: cf. F. contracter. See Trace, and cf. Contract, n. ] 1. To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action. [ 1913 Webster ] In all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit. [ 1913 Webster ] Thou didst contract and purse thy brow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease. [ 1913 Webster ] Each from each contract new strength and light. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ] Such behavior we contract by having much conversed with persons of high station. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for. [ 1913 Webster ] We have contracted an inviolable amity, peace, and lague with the aforesaid queen. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ] Many persons . . . had contracted marriage within the degrees of consanguinity . . . prohibited by law. Strype. [ 1913 Webster ] 5. To betroth; to affiance. [ 1913 Webster ] The truth is, she and I, long since contracted,
Are now so sure, that nothing can dissolve us. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] 6. (Gram.) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one. Syn. -- To shorten; abridge; epitomize; narrow; lessen; condense; reduce; confine; incur; assume. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Contract | a. Contracted; as, a contract verb. Goodwin. [ 1913 Webster ] | | contractable | adj. capable of being transmitted by infection; same as communicable, 1; -- of disease.
Syn. -- catching, communicable, contagious, transmissible, transmittable. [ WordNet 1.5 ] | | Contracted | a. 1. Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace. [ 1913 Webster ] Inquire me out contracted bachelors. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Contractedness | n. The state of being contracted; narrowness; meanness; selfishness. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Contractibility | n. Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibility and dilatability of air. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Contractible | a. Capable of contraction. [ 1913 Webster ] Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Contractibleness | n. Contractibility. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Contractile | a. [ Cf. F. contractile. ] tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues. [ 1913 Webster ] The heart's contractile force. H. Brooke. [ 1913 Webster ] Each cilium seems to be composed of contractile substance. Hixley. [ 1913 Webster ]
Contractile vacuole (Zool.), a pulsating cavity in the interior of a protozoan, supposed to be excretory in function. There may be one, two, or more. [ 1913 Webster ]
| | Contractility | n. 1. The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. (Physiol.) The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ When subject to the will, as in the muscles of locomotion, such power is called voluntary contractility; when not controlled by the will, as in the muscles of the heart, it is involuntary contractility. [ 1913 Webster ] | | contracting | n. the act or process of acquiring an infectious disease; contraction; as, the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic.
Syn. -- catching. [ WordNet 1.5 ] | | Contraction | n. [ L. contractio: cf. F. contraction. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. (Math.) The process of shortening an operation. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc. [ 1913 Webster ] 5. (Gram.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ] 6. A marriage contract. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Contractive | a. Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Contractor | n. [ L. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Contract system | . 1. The sweating system. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] 2. The system of employing convicts by selling their labor (to be performed inside the prison) at a fixed price per day to contractors who are allowed to have agents in the prison to superintend the work. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] | | Contract tablet | . (Babylonian & Assyrian Antiq.) A clay tablet on which was inscribed a contract, for safe keeping. Such tablets were inclosed in an outer case (often called the envelope), on which was inscribed a duplicate of the inscription on the inclosed tablet. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] | | Contracture | n. [ L. contractura a drawing together. ] (Med.) A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Incontracted | a. Uncontracted. [ Obs. ] Blackwall. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Precontract | v. i. To make a previous contract or agreement. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Precontract | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Precontracted; p. pr. & vb. n. Precontracting. ] To contract, engage, or stipulate previously. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Precontract | n. A contract preceding another; especially (Law), a contract of marriage which, according to the ancient law, rendered void a subsequent marriage solemnized in violation of it. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Subcontract | n. A contract under, or subordinate to, a previous contract. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Subcontracted | a. 1. Contracted after a former contract. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Betrothed for the second time. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Subcontractor | n. One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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