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Definitions: Decompress |
DecompressVerb1. Decrease the pressure of; "depressurize the cabin in the air plane". 2. Become less tense; "He relaxed in the hot tub". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | Decompress |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: DecompressSynonyms: depressurise (v), depressurize (v), loosen up (v), relax (v), slow down (v), unbend (v), unwind (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: pressurize (v), tense (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Decompress |
| Specialty definitions using "decompress": lzexe ♦ PKLITE ♦ to decompress a file, to decompress a picture. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Dive bell equipped with compressed air allows divers to decompress underwater.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
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Health | While there is no proof that surgeons must operate to decompress the spinal cord within the 8-hour time window established for methylprednisolone, many believe it may help and try to do it then. Early surgery also allows earlier movement and earlier physical therapy, which are important for preventing complications and regaining as much function as possible. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Decompress" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Decompress" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "decompress": to decompress a file ♦ to decompress a picture. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
decompress | 46 |
decompress rar | 16 |
avi decompress | 9 |
decompress password rar | 7 |
bin decompress | 6 |
decompress video | 6 |
audio decompress | 5 |
audio avi decompress | 4 |
decompress mp3 | 4 |
decompress file | 3 |
decompress exe | 3 |
decompress sit | 3 |
decompress file qic | 3 |
decompress bin file | 3 |
decompress file rar | 2 |
decompress divx | 2 |
ace decompress | 2 |
decompress zip | 2 |
decompress file tar | 2 |
aspack decompress | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "decompress"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ul presionin, shfryj (blast, blow, bluster, frown, grumble, huff, inveigh, leak, let off steam, natter, puff, vituperate, whiffle, wreak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | أزال الضغط (depressurize), أبطل الضغط. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | намаляване натиска на. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 解压 (decompressing, decompression). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | snížit tlak. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | dekomprimere en fil (to decompact a file, to decompress a file), udpakke billede (to decompact a picture, to decompress a picture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | een bestand decomprimeren (to decompact a file, to decompress a file), een afbeelding decomprimeren (to decompact a picture, to decompress a picture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ناهم فشرده کردن , ازفشارهواکاستن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | purkaa tiedoston pakkaaminen (to decompact a file, to decompress a file), purkaa kuvan pakkaaminen (to decompact a picture, to decompress a picture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | décompresser. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | dekomprimieren, entkomprimieren. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μειώνω την πίεση, αποσυμπιέζω. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לשחרר לחץ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nyomást csökkent. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | decomprimere. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 감압하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecompressday descomprimir (to depressurize). (various references) уменьшать давление, снижать давление. (various references) smanjivati pritisak. (various references) descomprimir (depressurize). (various references) minska tryck. (various references) basıncı azaltmak, basınçlı yerden basınç hücresi ile kurtarmak. (various references) зменшувати тиск. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "decompress": decompressed, decompresses, decompressing, decompression, decompressions. (additional references) | |
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"Decompress" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: decompressive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: compressed. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-m-o-p-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: processed. | |
-2 letters: compeers, compered, comperes, compress, deposers, precodes, proceeds. | |
-3 letters: compeer, compere, corpses, crossed, demoses, deperms, deposer, deposes, depress, emerods, empress, precess, precode, premeds, pressed, proceed, process, recodes, reposed, reposes, screeds, speedos. | |
-4 letters: ceders, cessed, coders, comers, comped, copers, copses, corpse, corses, credos, creeds, creeps, cremes, creped, crepes, crosse, decors, deperm, depose, dopers, dosers, dosser, emerod, epodes, eposes, erodes, eroses, merdes, messed, mopeds, mopers, mossed, mosser, pedros, permed, perses, posers, premed, proems, prosed, proses, recess, recode, redoes, repose, resods, romped, scoped, scopes, scored, scores, screed, screes, scrods, seders, sempre, speedo, speeds, speers, sperms, spodes, spored, spores, sprees. | |
-5 letters: ceder, cedes, cepes, cered, ceres, ceros, coder, codes, coeds, comer, comes, comps, coped, coper, copes, copse, cords, cored, cores, corms, corps, corse, coses, credo, creed, creep, creme, crepe, cress, crops, cross, decor, decos, deems, deeps, deers, demes, demos, derms, doers, domes, doper, dopes, dorms, dorps, doser, doses, drees, dress, drops, dross, epode, erode, erose, erses, meeds, merde, meres, modes, moped, moper, mopes, mores, morse, omers, pedes, pedro, peers, perms, perse, pesos, poems, pomes, pored, pores, posed, poser, poses, posse, preed, prees, prese, press, prods, proem, proms, prose, pross, redes, redos, reeds, repos, resod, romps, roped, ropes, rosed, roses, scope, scops, score, scree, scrod, seder, seeds, seems, seeps, seers, semes, sered, seres, sords, sores, specs, speed, speer, sperm, spode, spore, spree. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-m-o-p-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: decomposers. | |
+2 letters: compressedly, decompressed, decompresses. | |
+3 letters: decompressing, decompression. | |
+4 letters: decompressions, overcompressed. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01100011 01101111 01101101 01110000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e c o m p r e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0063 006F 006D 0070 0072 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38716981798284718585 |
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