compress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpɹɛs/
enpr: kəmprĕs'
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: compresses
form: compressing
form: compressed
form: compressed
Etymology: From Middle English compressen, from Old French compresser, from Late Latin compressare (“to press hard/together”), from Latin compressus, the past participle of comprimō (“to compress”), itself from com- (“together”) + premō (“press”).
Senses: examples: text: The force required to compress a spring varies linearly with the displacement.
text: events of centuries […] compressed within the compass of a single life
ref: 1825 June 17, Daniel Webster, Speech on the laying of the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument:
text: The same strength of expression, though more compressed, runs through his historical harangues.
ref: 1810, William Melmoth, transl., Letters of Pliny:
synonyms: compact
condense
pack
press
squash
squeeze
antonyms: expand
glosses: To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
examples: text: Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel
synonyms: contract
antonyms: decontract
glosses: To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
examples: text: This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.
glosses: To condense into a more economic, easier format.
examples: text: If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.
synonyms: word: abridge
word: condense
word: shorten
word: truncate
word: abbreviate
word: abridge
word: chop down
word: chop off
word: compress
word: condense
word: curt
word: curtail
word: lop off
word: make shorter
word: pare
word: prune
word: reduce in length
word: shorten
word: trim
word: truncate
word: saw off
antonyms: expand
lengthen
glosses: To abridge.
examples: text: The command-line tool gzip allows you to compress files in a few different ways. First, gzip can compress results from standard input.
ref: 2015, Vince Buffalo, Bioinformatics Data Skills […] , O'Reilly, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: uncompress
glosses: To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
examples: text: This nymph compreſs'd by him vvho rules the day, / VVhom Delphi and the Delian iſle obey, / Andræmon lov'd; and, bleſs'd in all thoſe charms / That pleas'd a God, ſucceeded to her arms.
ref: 1717, Alexander Pope, “The Fable of Dryope. From the Ninth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], →OCLC, page 295:
glosses: To embrace sexually.
Synonyms: word: astringe
word: compact
word: compactify
word: condense
word: densitize
word: pack
word: press
word: mash
word: scrunch
word: smush
word: squoosh
word: squash
word: squish
word: squeeze
word: thring
word: thrutch
Hyponyms: word: crush
word: crunch
word: tamp down
word: wad
word: wring
word: wring out
word: overcompress
word: recompact
word: recompress
word: supercompress
Derived terms: compressed
compressed air
compressedly
compressibility
compressible
compressingly
compression
compressive
compressive strength
compressor
compressure
decompress
overcompress
precompress
recompress
supercompress
Related terms: word: compression
word: thicken