Contra

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. edat Against; contrary or opposed to; in opposition or contrast to.
2. zarf Contrary to something.

   “[…] it is useless to pray “Thy kingdom come” and vote contra or stay away from the polls; […]”

3. isim A deal to swap goods or services.
4. isim A conservative; originally tied to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries.
5. isim An entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account).

   “a contra position; a contra entry”

6. isim Any of the musical instruments in the contrabass range, e.g. contrabassoon, contrabass clarinet or, especially, double bass.
7. isim A contra dance.
8. isim A country dance.

   “Folk histories record that contras were gradually displaced by the introduction of the quadrille and the new couple dances.”

9. fiil To undo; to reverse.

   “to contra a position (an entry)”

10. isim A member of any of various rightist guerrilla groups violently opposing the socialist Sandinista government of Nicaragua and secretly funded by the United States government in the 1980s.