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Definition: Contractile |
ContractileAdjective1. Capable of contracting or being contracted; "the contractile wings of an insect". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "contractile" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
Etymology: Contractile \Con*tract"ile\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression contractile.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contraction | Unexpanded; (expand; ); contractile; compressible; smaller; (small;). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Contractile |
| English words defined with "contractile": Animal mechanics ♦ Chromatophore, Contractile vacuole ♦ Dartos ♦ muscle, muscle cell, muscle fiber, muscle fibre, muscular tissue, musculus, myofibril, myofibrilla, Myophan ♦ Pseudo-heart, pupil ♦ sarcolemma, sarcostyle, striated muscle cell, striated muscle fiber ♦ White blood corpuscles. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "contractile": Clot Retraction, Contractile Proteins, Cytochalasin D ♦ Motor Neurons, Gamma, Muscle Fibers, Myocardial Contraction, Myoviridae ♦ Parvalbumins ♦ Sarcomeres ♦ T-even ♦ Vitreoretinopathy, Proliferative. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "contractile": Sustaltic. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Contractile" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (contractible, contractile). |
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Health | Overflow incontinence occurs when the bladder cannot empty normally and becomes overdistended, leading to frequent, sometimes nearly constant, urine loss. Causes include neurologic abnormalities that impair detrusor contractile capacity, including spinal cord lesions, and any factor that obstructs outflow, including medications, tumors, benign strictures, and prostatic hypertrophy. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Contractile" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Contractile" is used about 60 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 60 | 43,597 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "contractile": contractile organ ♦ Contractile Proteins ♦ Contractile vacuole. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "contractile": non-contractile. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
contractile vacuole | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "contractile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tkurrës (contractive), shtrëngues (coercive, constringent, extortionate, styptic), që shtrëngohet (compressible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مقلص (astringent, shrunken), متقبض, قابل للتقلص, قابل للتقبض. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | който свива (constringent, contractive), който може да се свива (contractible), контрактилен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vtažitelný (retractable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kontraktil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | contractiel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | supistuvainen (contracting), supistuva (contracting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | contractile (contractible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kontraktil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συσταλτόσ (contractible, shrinkable), συσταλτός, συσταλτικόσ (astringent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כויץ (contractible, shrinkable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zsugorodóképes, összehúzó (astringent, constrictive, constrictor, constringent, contractive, styptic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | contrattile. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ontractilecay contraível, contráctil. (various references) сократительный (retractive), сократимый (retractable), контрактильный. (various references) kontraktilan. (various references) contractible, contráctil (contractible). (various references) hopfällbar (collapsable, collapsible, foldable, folding), hopdragbar. (various references) kasılabilen (contractible), kısılabilen (contractible). (various references) стискувальний (compressive), що стиска"ться, що скорочу". (various references) có thể rút lại, có thể co lại (contractible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Contractile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: contractee, contracture. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "contractile" (pronounced 'Con*tract"ile'): Agile, Anile, Attractile, Axile, Bevile, Debile, Facile, Flabile, flexile, Fluxile, fragile, indocile, Protractile, retractile, sterile, strobile, tractile, Whetile, Whitile. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-l-n-o-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: accretion, anorectic, carnotite, natrolite, recontact. | |
-3 letters: accentor, acentric, acetonic, acrolect, acrolein, anoretic, canticle, cilantro, clarinet, cocinera, colinear, concerti, contract, contrail, contrite, cornicle, cortical, cratonic, creation, erotical, interact, lactonic, loricate, narcotic, necrotic, oriental, reaction, relation, taconite, tectonic, tolerant, tractile, traction, trotline. | |
-4 letters: aconite, acronic, acrotic, aileron, alienor, aloetic, article, calcine, calcite, caloric, calorie, calotte. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-i-l-n-o-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: contractible. | |
+2 letters: intercortical. | |
+3 letters: contradictable. | |
+4 letters: contractilities, electrification, electromagnetic, interscholastic, magnetoelectric, oxytetracycline. | |
+5 letters: countercomplaint, electrifications, electrotonically, oxytetracyclines. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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