compress
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
compress (compresses, present participle compressing; past and past participle compressed)
- (transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
- The force required to compress a spring varies linearly with the displacement.
- events of centuries […] compressed within the compass of a single life
- The same strength of expression, though more compressed, runs through his historical harangues.
- (intransitive) To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
- Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel
- (transitive) To condense into a more economic, easier format.
- This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.
- (transitive) To abridge.
- If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.
- (technology, transitive) To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
- (obsolete) To embrace sexually.
- (press together) compact, condense, pack, press, squash, squeeze; see also Thesaurus:compress
- (be pressed together) contract
- (condense, abridge) abridge, condense, shorten, truncate; see also Thesaurus:shorten
- (press together): expand
- (be pressed together): decontract
- (condense, abridge): expand, lengthen
- (make computing data smaller): uncompress
- French: comprimer
- German: komprimieren
- Italian: comprimere
- Portuguese: comprimir
- Russian: сжима́ть
- Spanish: comprimir
- Russian: сжима́ться
- Spanish: comprimirse
- German: komprimieren
- Russian: уплотня́ть
- French: compresser
- German: komprimieren
- Portuguese: comprimir
- Spanish: comprimir
compress (plural compresses)
A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury. - He held a cold compress over the sprain.
- A machine for compressing
- French: compresse
- German: Kompresse
- Italian: compressa
- Portuguese: compressa
- Russian: компре́сс
- Spanish: compresa
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