compress
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verb- 1.
(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.
Đồng nghĩa: compact, condense, pack, press, squash, squeeze
- 2.
(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
Đồng nghĩa: contract
- 3.
(transitive)To condense into a more economic, easier format.
This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.
- 4.
(transitive)To abridge.
If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.
Đồng nghĩa: abridge, condense, shorten, truncate, abbreviate, abridge, chop down, chop off, cut short, compress, condense, curt, curtail, lop off, make shorter, pare, prune, reduce in length, shorten, trim, truncate, saw off
- 5.
(transitive)(computing, transitive) To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
Đồng nghĩa: zip
- 6.
(transitive)(physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch shorter by applying dispersion to it.
- 7.
(obsolete)To embrace sexually.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(medicine) 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.
- 2.
A machine for compressing.
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From Middle English compressen, from Old French compresser, from compressare (to press hard/together), from Latin compressus, the past participle of comprimō (to compress), itself from com- (together) + premō (press).