verb Descargar 🔗Compartir Contraerse, acortar To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen. Examples : "Example: "As the weather cooled down, the metal pipe started contracting, making a creaking sound." " A medida que el clima se enfriaba, la tubería de metal comenzó a contraerse, emitiendo un crujido. physiology medicine anatomy biology Chat con IAJuego de vocabularioPracticar lectura
verb Descargar 🔗Compartir Contraer, abreviar (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one. Examples : "When writing quickly, people often start contracting words like "cannot" to "can't." " Al escribir rápido, la gente a menudo empieza a contraer palabras como "cannot" a "can't". grammar linguistics language Chat con IAJuego de vocabularioPracticar lectura
verb Descargar 🔗Compartir Celebrar un contrato To enter into a contract with. Examples : "The company is contracting a new marketing team. " La empresa está celebrando un contrato con un nuevo equipo de marketing. business law economy Chat con IAJuego de vocabularioPracticar lectura
verb Descargar 🔗Compartir Contraer, celebrar To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for. Examples : "The company is contracting with a local farm to supply fresh produce for the office cafeteria. " La empresa está celebrando un contrato con una granja local para suministrar productos frescos a la cafetería de la oficina. business law Chat con IAJuego de vocabularioPracticar lectura
verb Descargar 🔗Compartir Contratar, celebrar un contrato, convenir To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain. Examples : "to contract for carrying the mail" contratar el transporte del correo business law economy Chat con IAJuego de vocabularioPracticar lectura
verb Descargar 🔗Compartir Contraer, incurrir, adquirir To bring on; to incur; to acquire. Examples : "She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens." Ella contrajo el hábito de fumar en su adolescencia. business economy finance Chat con IAJuego de vocabularioPracticar lectura
verb Descargar 🔗Compartir Contraer, adquirir To gain or acquire (an illness). Examples : "After visiting the hospital, she worried about contracting a cold. " Después de visitar el hospital, se preocupó por contraer un resfriado. medicine disease biology Chat con IAJuego de vocabularioPracticar lectura
verb Descargar 🔗Compartir Contraerse, arrugarse To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit. Examples : "The old leather of the baseball glove was contracting and wrinkling under the hot sun. " El cuero viejo del guante de béisbol se contraía y se arrugaba bajo el sol caliente. physiology anatomy body Chat con IAJuego de vocabularioPracticar lectura
verb Descargar 🔗Compartir Comprometerse, prometerse To betroth; to affiance. Examples : "Long ago, families were often contracting their children to be married at a young age. " Hace mucho tiempo, las familias a menudo comprometían a sus hijos para que se casaran a una edad temprana. family tradition Chat con IAJuego de vocabularioPracticar lectura
noun Descargar 🔗Compartir Contracción The act of something that contracts or shrinks; contraction. Examples : "the contractings of his muscles" Las contracciones de sus músculos physiology medicine body process Chat con IAJuego de vocabularioPracticar lectura
noun Descargar 🔗Compartir Trabajo por contrato Work done on a contract basis. Examples : "Her steady income comes from contracting; she takes on project-based work for several different companies. " Sus ingresos constantes provienen del trabajo por contrato; realiza trabajos basados en proyectos para varias empresas diferentes. business work economy Chat con IAJuego de vocabularioPracticar lectura
adjective Descargar 🔗Compartir Contrayente, encogiendo Getting smaller; drawing itself together into a smaller area. Examples : "The contracting spiral notebook was hard to use because the metal rings were bending inwards. " El cuaderno en espiral que se encogía era difícil de usar porque los anillos de metal se doblaban hacia adentro. physics science Chat con IAJuego de vocabularioPracticar lectura
