An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.

(obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed. / (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.

(transitive, intransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen. / (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

Distinction by contrast; the provision of one example against which another example may be defined. / The quality of being contradistinctive.

(medicine) A factor or symptom which makes a certain treatment inadvisable, generally or individually.

A debate or discussion of opposing opinions; (generally) strife.

The state of being contrite; sincere penitence or remorse. / (obsolete) The act of grinding or rubbing to powder.

To invent by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise / To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation. / To project, cast, or set forth, as in a projection of light.

To deny the truth or validity of (a statement or statements). / To oppose (a person) by denying the truth or pertinence of a given statement. / To be contrary to (something).

(literary) in the contrary or opposite way, order, or direction / (literary) on the other hand