[syn: compressed, flat]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Compressed \Com*pressed"\, a.
1. Pressed together; compacted; reduced in volume by
pressure.
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2. (Bot.) Flattened lengthwise.
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Compressed-air engine, an engine operated by the elastic
force of compressed air.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Compress \Com*press"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Compressed; p. pr &
vb. n. Compressing.] [L. compressus, p. p. of comprimere to
compress: com- + premere to press. See Press.]
1. 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.
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Events of centuries . . . compressed within the
compass of a single life. --D. Webster.
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The same strength of expression, though more
compressed, runs through his historical harangues.
--Melmoth.
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2. To embrace sexually. [Obs.] --Pope.
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3. (Computers) to reduce the space required for storage (of
binary data) by an algorithm which converts the data to a
smaller number of bits while preserving the information
content. The compressed data is usually decompressed to
recover the initial data format before subsequent use.
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Syn: To crowd; squeeze; condense; reduce; abridge.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
compressed
adj 1: pressed tightly together; "with lips compressed" [syn:
compressed, tight]
2: reduced in volume by pressure; "compressed air"
3: flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain
leafstalks or flatfishes) [syn: compressed, flat]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
104 Moby Thesaurus words for "compressed":
Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed,
brief, brusque, capsule, capsulized, clamped, clipped, close,
close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, compact, compacted,
compendious, concentrated, concise, concrete, condensed, congested,
consolidated, constricted, contracted, crammed, crammed full,
cramped, crisp, cropped, crowded, curt, curtailed, cut, cut short,
dense, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, epigrammatic, firm,
gluey, gnomic, hard, heavy, impenetrable, impermeable, jam-packed,
jammed, knitted, laconic, massive, mowed, mown, nipped, nonporous,
packed, pinched, pinched-in, pithy, pointed, pollard, polled,
pruned, puckered, pursed, reaped, reserved, sententious, serried,
shaved, sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened,
snub, snubbed, solid, solidified, squeezed, strangled,
strangulated, substantial, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn,
terse, thick, thick-growing, thickset, tight, to the point,
trimmed, truncated, viscid, viscose, viscous, wasp-waisted,
wrinkled