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1. (v.t.) compress
to press or squeeze together; force into less space.
2. compress
to cause to become a solid mass:
to compress cotton into bales.
3. compress
to condense, shorten, or abbreviate:
The book was compressed by 50 pages.
4. (n.) compress
a soft pad or cloth held or secured on the body to provide pressure or to supply moisture, cold, heat, or medication.
5. compress
an apparatus for compressing cotton bales.
Etymology: (1350–1400; (v.) ME (< MF compresser) < LL compressāre, freq. of L comprimere to squeeze together)
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| Definition of 'Compress' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (verb) compress
a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever)
2. (verb) compress, compact, pack together
make more compact by or as if by pressing
"compress the data"
3. (verb) compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, press
squeeze or press together
"she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"
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1. (verb) compress
to make sth fit into a smaller space
to compress computer files; compressed air
2. compress
to make sth last less time
to compress the course to just four weeks; the compression of computer files
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| Definition of 'Compress' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Compress
a folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part
2. (verb) Compress
to press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water
3. (verb) Compress
to embrace sexually
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| Definitions of 'Compress' |
The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. Compress
[Unix] When used without a qualifier, generally refers to
crunching of a file using a particular C
implementation of compression by Joseph M. Orost et al.: and widely
circulated via Usenet; use of
crunch itself in this sense is rare among Unix
hackers. Specifically, compress is built around the Lempel-Ziv-Welch
algorithm as described in “A Technique for High Performance Data
Compression”, Terry A. Welch, IEEE Computer,
vol. 17, no. 6 (June 1984), pp. 8--19.
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Sense: to press together; to force into a narrower space
All his belongings were compressed into a very small suitcase.
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 Afrikaans: saamdruk, saampers; samev |
 Arabic: يَضْغَط، يُرَكّز |
 Bulgarian: натиквам |
 Brazilian: comprimir |
 Czech: stěsnat |
 German: zusammenpressen |
 Danish: komprimere; sammenpresse |
 Greek: συμπιέζω |
 Spanish: comprimir |
 Estonian: kokku suruma |
 Farsi: فشردن |
 Finnish: puristaa |
 French: comprimer |
 Hebrew: לִדחוֹס |
 Hindi: दबाना |
 Croatian: stisnuti, sažeti, komprim |
 Hungarian: összeprésel |
 Indonesian: memadatkan |
 Icelandic: þrÿsta/þjappa saman |
 Italian: comprimere |
 Japanese: 圧縮する |
 Korean: 압축하다 |
 Lithuanian: suspausti |
 Latvian: saspiest; sablīvēt |
 Malay: memampatkan |
 Dutch: samenpersen |
 Norwegian: presse sammen, komprimere |
 Polish: ściskać |
 Persian: فشردن |
 Pashto: مروړل: خنډول، ټينګول (تبر |
 Portuguese: comprimir |
 Romanian: aînghesui |
 Russian: сжимать |
 Slovak: stlačiť |
 Slovenian: stisniti, stlačiti |
 Serbian: kompresovan |
 Swedish: pressa ihop, komprimera |
 Thai: บีบอัด |
 Turkish: sıkıştırmak |
 Taiwanese: 壓縮 |
 Ukrainian: стискувати |
 Urdu: دبانا |
 Vietnamese: ép; nén |
 Chinese: 压缩 |
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