Compress

Definition: Compress

Compress

Noun

1. A cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever).

Verb

1. Make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the data".

2. Squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips".

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Date "compress" was first used: sometime around 1380. (references)

Computing

Medicine

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Synonyms: Compress

Compendium

Abbreviate; (shorten); condense; (compress); compile; (collect).

Contraction

Render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate; boil down; constrict, constringe; condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow; pinch, tighten, strangle; cramp; dwarf, bedwarf; shorten; circumscribe; restrain.

Density

Condense, thicken, gel, inspissate, incrassate; compress, squeeze, ram down, constipate.

Remedy

Compress, pledget; bandage; (support).

Shortness

Verb: be short; Adjective: render short; Adjective: shorten, curtail, abridge, abbreviate, take in, reduce; compress; (contract); epitomize.

Crosswords: Compress

High Tech

• Compress It for Palm OS (reference)

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Shown is a woman radiology technician preparing a 42 year old white woman for a mammogram. Both the technician and the woman are shown from the waist up. The technician is positioning the paddle used to compress the breast. The patient's face is turned towards the technician, away from the camera. Her right shoulder is raised obscuring the breast. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Figure 36. Ericsson pneumatic sounder, invented in 1835 by John Ericsson of USS MONITOR fame. This was among the first instruments to use the principle of pressure needed to compress air a given amount to derive the depth of water. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Atlantic Cotton Compress Company, Pensacola, Fla. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cotton compress. Credit: Library of Congress.

Interior of cotton compress at Forrest City, Arkansas where sick Negro flood refugees are housed. Credit: Library of Congress.

Negro worker at cotton compress taking a drink of water from bucket, Houston, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Compressing unit operator. Compress, Houston, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Record of the compressor. Compress, Houston, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wreckage of burned cotton gin and compress at Big Spring, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bale of cotton going into the compress. Memphis, Tennessee. Credit: Library of Congress.

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And the big, lumpy bales standing, going to the compress.

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Health

These tumors produce excess GH and, as they expand, compress surrounding brain tissues, such as the optic nerves. (references)

The largest lesions may compress several inches of the spinal cord or distort the shape of an entire hemisphere of the brain. (references)

The sling, fixed to the anterior body wall, serves to elevate and compress the urethra, restoring continence in 80 percent of patients. (references)

Business

Data is delivered through WAP gateways-servers that compress data into a form that is suitable for transmission over a mobile phone network. (references)

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Ending with "compress": de-compress.

Albanian

shtrëngoj (bind, brace, buckle, clamp, clasp, clench, clip, clutch, coerce, compel, constrict, enforce, fasten, force, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, hold, hug, jam, keep, oblige, pinch, press, restrict, screw, shake, squash, squeeze, strain, strangle, tighten, vice, wring), shkurtoj (abbreviate, abridge, ax, axe, buck, clip, condense, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, detruncate, dock, epitomize, pare, poll, prune, razee, retrench, shorten, truncate, undercut, whittle down), përmbledh (abridge, abstract, brief, collect, condense, precis, recapitulate, sum up, summarize), ngjesh (clench, compact, gird on the sword, huddle, jam, jostle, masticate, mix, pack, ram down, squeeze, tamp), mbledh (accumulate, add, add together, assemble, bank, brush up, call in, call together, cast, cast up, clench, collate, collect, compile, congregate, convene, convoke, draw, dredge, drum up, focus, fold, fund, furl, gather, get together, group, herd, impound, kilt, levy, lift, make up, pack, pick, pick off, pick up, pool, rally, reap, round up, scoop up, shut, sweep, take, total, totalize), makinë presimi, kompresë (pack, stupe). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كمادة (cataplasm, pack, poultice, stupe), ‏كماد, ‏كثف (concentrate, condense, exalt, inspissate, intensify, thicken), ‏كبس (press, pressure, ram, squeeze), ‏مكبس (compressor, piston, press), ‏تكثف (condense, precipitate), ‏عصر (age, compressing, crush, date, eon, epoch, era, period, press, ream, squeeze, strain, time, update, wring), ‏ضغط (bear in mind, compressing, compression, crowd, depress, duress, force, hustle, jam, lay stress on smth., lean, lobby, lobbying, pinch, press, pressure, push, screw, smash, squeeze, strain, stress, telescope, tension), ‏إنعصر, ‏إنضغط, ‏ركز (center, centre, concentrate, condense, distil, fasten, fix, focus). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сгъстявам (coagulate, compact, condense, evaporate, inspissate, set, squeeze, thicken), компрес (application, fomentation, pack, packing sheet, pledget), натъпквам (bulge, bung, cram, crush, fill in, imbed, impact, jam, lumber, pack, pack in, pump in, ram, stuff, tamp), изразявам сбито. (various references)

Chinese 

压缩 (Compressed, Compressing, Compression, Compressive), �"緊 . (various references)

Czech

zhustit (condense, inspissate), zestruènit (abridge, condense, epitomize), stlaèit (depress, press down, pull down, squeeze), slisovat (squash), obvaz (bandage, dressing, roller), obklad (application, lining, veneer), náèinek, komprimovat. (various references)

Danish

visker (pad, pledget, sponge, squeegee, swab, tampon), tampon (plug, tampon), pelotte (pad, pelotte, pledget, sponge, swab, tampon), kroelle (pad, pledget, sponge, swab, tampon), kompres (Esmarch tourniquet, pack, packing, pad, pledget, sponge, swab, tampon, tourniquet). (various references)

Dutch

comprimeren (compaction, compression, data compression). (various references)

Esperanto

kompaktigi. (various references)

Farsi 

هم فشرده کردن , خلاصه شدن یاکردن , بهم فشردن (Gnash, Impact, Scrunch). (various references)

Finnish

pusertaa (jam, pinch, press, squeeze), puserrus (jam, pinch, press, squeeze), kääre (bandage, dressing, wrapper), haude (bath, fomentation, poultice). (various references)

French

comprimer (compact), compresse (compresse). (various references)

German

komprimieren (condense), packung (ballast, box, gasket, pack, package, packet, pitching, poultice), kompresse (pack, packing, pad, pledget). (various references)

Greek 

συμπιέζω. (various references)

Hebrew 

לפחוס (flatten, squash), ל�"�"חיס, ל�"חוס (condense, cram, crowd, jam, stuff, supercharge, tamp, wedge), תחבושת (bandage, dressing, ligature), רטי�" (bandage, plaster). (various references)

Hungarian

borogatás (fomentation, pack, poultice, swathing). (various references)

Indonesian

menekan (depress, press, quash), memadatkan (solidify, tamp), kompres. (various references)

Italian

compressa (envelope, tablet). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

湿布 (fomentation), コン�"ュータ�"�語 (combo, comfrey, competition, complement, complete, completion, complex, compliance, compliment, component, component stereo, component type, composer, composite, composite index, composition, compost, compote, compressor, computation, computer communication, computerese, computing, computopia, computopolis, con brio, confection, confectionery, conference, confession, configuration, conflict, conform, conformism, convention, convention bureau, convention center, convention hall, conventional, conveyor, conveyor system, convoy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しっぷ (fomentation), コンプレス . (various references)

Korean 

압착기. (various references)

Manx

kiangley (anchoring, anchoring building, article, article to trade, attach, band, bandage, bandaging, belay, bend, bind, bind down, binding, bond, bow knot, bundle, condition, condition terms, connect, constipate, constrain, dress, dressing, envoy, envoy of poem, fasten down, fastening, influence, involvement, juncture, link, lock, lock in, locking, make fast, nexus, obligation, pin, pinion, relationship, retain, retention, secure, shackle, stipulation, tether, tie, tie down, tie on, tie up, tying, vinculum), glabbag (cataplasm, fomentation, poultice), faastey (compression, squeeze, twist, wring, wringing), broojey (bruise, compound, cram, crunch, crush, mash, pound, press, pulverization, pulverize, push, ram, squash, squelch, stamping). (various references)

Pig Latin

ompresscay

Portuguese

condensar (abridge, condense, gut), concentrar (center, centre, concentre, condense, focus attention on, focus on, inspissate, localise, localize, zero in on), comprimir (astringe, compact, constrict, jam, oppress, pack, pinch, press, pump up, retrench, screw, squeeze, tighten, tuck, wring), chumaço (dossil, padding, wad, wadding), resumir (abstract, boil down, brief, compact, condense, digest, epitomize, extract, precis, resume, shorten, sum up, summarize, wind up). (various references)

Romanian

condensa (compact, concentrate, condense), concentra (bend, center, centre, concentrate, concentre, condense, focus), comprima (condense, constrain, curb, hold, jam, pack, repress, sack, squash), compresã (bolster, pledget, stupe), strânge (accrete, accumulate, acerbate, acquire, agglomerate, amass, assemble, bind, call, chuck, clamp, clasp, clear, clench, close, collect, concentrate, congregate, constrain, constrict, contract, converge, convolve, cramp, crop, crouch, crowd, crush, cull, cut, diminish, double, fasten, fold, force, garner, gather, glean, harvest, haul, hoard, house, hug, jam, lay aside, lay by, lay in, lay up, levy, lock, lump, make up, mass, muster, nip, pack, pick, pick up, pile, pile on, pinch, press, put away, put by, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, screw, shrink, shut, squeeze, stifle, stock, store, straighten, strain, straiten, suffocate, take up, tighten, troop, warehouse), presa (calender, crowd, dun, force, impact, jam, journalism, nip, press, push, squeeze, stress, urge). (various references)

Russian 

сжать (clench, squeeze, tighten), сжимать (clasp, clench, constrict, contract, grip, jam, pinch, shrank, shrunk, squeeze, squeezed, strain, strangulate, tighten, vice, vise), компресс (pledget, stupe), мягкая повязка. (various references)

Scottish

f� isg (squeeze, wring). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stegnuti (clasp, clench, constrict, press, tighten), sabiti (condense, impact, pack, press), sažimati (abridge, resume, sum, sum up), sažeti (abridge, abstract, condense, epitomize, summarize), oblog (pack, stupe), kompresa (stupe). (various references)

Spanish

oprimir (actuate, aggrieve, grasp, grind, grind down, hold down, keep down, oppress, overburden, press, push, squeeze, suppress, to queeze), compresa (envelope, pack, sanitary napkin). (various references)

Swedish

omslag (book jacket, changeover, cover, dressing, envelope, wrapper, wrapping), komprimera (compact). (various references)

Turkish

sıkıştırmak (astringe, be urgent with smb., bear against, besiege, bombard, bottle up, clamp, clamp down, clinch, come down on, compact, constrict, crowd, crush, drive smb. to the wall, dun, force, grind, grip, heckle, hurry, hustle, impact, impress, incarcerate, jam, jam in, lean on, lean upon, oppress, pin, pin down, pinch, ply, ply with, press, press for, press smb. close, push, push smb. to the wall, rush, shut in, slip into, squeeze, straiten, stress, tighten, tuck, wedge, weigh), sıkıştırılmış (compressed, pressed, tabloid), kompres yapmak, kompres (compressor), kısaltmak (abbreviate, abridge, cancel, clip, curtail, cut down, dock, edit, make shorter, prune, reduce, retrench, short circuit, shorten, summarize, take up), kısaltma (abbr, abbreviation, abridgement, compendium, compression, condensation, curtailment, retrenchment, shortening, summary), bastırmak (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, bear against, beat down, bottle up, Burke, choke, crucify, depress, drown, extinguish, flow, gulp, gulp down, hold down, keep down, keep in, keep under, outtalk, overbear, overtake, pocket, push down, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, restrain, set in, settle, settle in, silence, smother, smother up, squash, squelch, stamp, stifle, strangle, subdue, submerge, suppress, swallow, throttle back, throttle down, weigh, weigh down, whelm, whip), basınçlı (compressed, compressive), özetlemek (abridge, abstract, boil down, brief, encapsulate, epitomize, incapsulate, outline, precis, reduce, resume, sum up, summarize, totalize, wrap up), özet (abridgement, abstract, brief, compendium, condensation, conspectus, digest, epitome, extract, gist, outline, precis, resume, roundup, short, sum, summary, summation, synopsis). (various references)

Turkmen 

kompres (r). (various references)

Ukrainian

стискувати (clench, clip, compact, link, squeeze), компрес (application, bolster). (various references)

adstrictos, adstrictus, adstringens, adstringo, adstrinxissent, arta, artabitur, artabuntur, artavitque, arto, artor, cogo, compressare, constricti, constringantur, constringatur, constringe, constringes, constringit, constringitur, constringuntur, constrinxerant, constrinxerit, densabuntur, stipate, stipes. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "compress": compressed, compressedly, compresses, compressibilities, compressibility, compressible, compressing, compression, compressional, compressions, compressive, compressively, compressor, compressors. (additional references)

Words ending with "compress": decompress, overcompress. (additional references)

Words containing "compress": decompressed, decompresses, decompressing, decompression, decompressions, incompressible, noncompressible, overcompressed, overcompresses, overcompressing. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Compress" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: campness, Camporese, Colprensa, combeses, compers, compess, Compesso, Compressa, compris, Gompertz, rompress. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: corpses, process.

-2 letters: comers, copers, copses, corpse, corses, crosse, mopers, mosser, posers, proems, proses, scopes, scores, sperms, spores.

-3 letters: ceros, comer, comes, comps, coper, copes, copse, cores, corms, corps, corse, coses, cress, crops, cross, moper, mopes, mores, morse, omers, perms, pesos, poems, pomes, pores, poser, poses, posse, press, proem, proms, prose, pross, repos.

+1 letter: capsomers, composers, comprises, mesocarps.

+2 letters: composures, compressed, compresses, compressor, decompress, recomposes.

+3 letters: cocomposers, compressing, compression, compressive, compressors, compromises, decomposers, mascarpones, mesospheric, microscopes, microspores, prosceniums, recompenses, semitropics, supermachos, supermicros.

+4 letters: atmospherics, compensators, compressedly, compressible, compressions, compromisers, computereses, computerises, computerists, computerless, comradeships, consumership, coppersmiths, decompressed, decompresses, discomposure, imprecisions, microscopies, microspheres, noncomposers, overcompress, pleochroisms, semiprecious, spectrograms, streptomyces, thermoscopes.