What is the difference between apostrophe and contraction?
apostrophe | contraction |
(orthography) The text character , which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.
(rhetoric) A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.
A reversible reduction in size.
(economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth.
(biology) A shortening of a muscle when it is used.
(medicine) A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
(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.
(English orthography) A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.
(medicine) Contracting a disease.
(phonetics) Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.
The acquisition of something, generally negative.
(medicine) A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
As nouns the difference between apostrophe and contraction
is that apostrophe is the text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts while contraction is a reversible reduction in size.apostrophe
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) apostrophe, or (etyl) apostrophus, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* *Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* greengrocer's apostropheUsage notes
In English, the apostrophe is used to mark the possessive or to show the omission of letters or numbers.See also
* (wikipedia)Etymology 2
From (etyl) apostrophe, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* apostrophicallycontraction
English
Noun
(en noun)- The country's economic contraction was caused by high oil prices.
- In English ''didn't'', ''that's'', and ''wanna'', the endings ''-n't'', ''-'s'', and ''-a'' arose by contraction .
- "Don't" is a contraction of "do not."
- The contraction of AIDS from toilet seats is extremely rare.
- Our contraction of debt in this quarter has reduced our ability to attract investors.