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Contraction vs Clipping - What's the difference?

contraction | clipping |

As nouns the difference between contraction and clipping

is that contraction is a reversible reduction in size while clipping is a piece of something removed by clipping.

As a verb clipping is

present participle of lang=en.

contraction

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A reversible reduction in size.
  • (economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth.
    • The country's economic contraction was caused by high oil prices.
  • (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.
    • In English ''didn't'', ''that's'', and ''wanna'', the endings ''-n't'', ''-'s'', and ''-a'' arose by contraction .
  • (English orthography) A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.
    • "Don't" is a contraction of "do not."
  • (medicine) Contracting a disease.
    • The contraction of AIDS from toilet seats is extremely rare.
  • (phonetics) Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.
  • The acquisition of something, generally negative.
    • Our contraction of debt in this quarter has reduced our ability to attract investors.
  • (medicine) A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.

    • Antonyms

    * expansion * dilatation

    Derived terms

    * contractional * contractionary * hypercontraction * supercontraction

    Related terms

    * contract * contractation * contractive

    See also

    * omission * *

    clipping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • (countable) A piece of something removed by clipping.
    • a clipping of hair
    grass clippings
  • (countable) An article clipped from a newspaper.
  • (countable, linguistics) A short form (of a word).
    • The word "ad" is a clipping of "advertisement".
  • (uncountable, signal processing) the process of cutting off a signal level that rises above a certain maximum level

    • Synonyms

    * (piece of something removed by clipping) offcut, snippet * (article clipped from a newspaper) cutting, newspaper clipping, newspaper cutting * (word formed by shortening another) short form