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Flatten by pressure
Answer for the clue "Flatten by pressure ", 8 letters:
compress
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Word definitions for compress in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume. 2 (context intransitive English) To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compress \Com"press\, n. [F. compresse.] (Surg.) A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "to press (something) together," from Old French compresser "compress, put under pressure," from Latin compressare "to press together," frequentative of comprimere "to squeeze," from com- "together" (see com- ) + premere "to press" (see press ...
Usage examples of compress.
Its author had the instinct for the cryptographic jugular, and he compressed into 64 pages virtually the entire known field of cryptology, including polyalphabetics with mixed alphabets, enciphered code, and cipher devices.
Electrical power and compressed air and gas connections to the Archerfish also helped men inside the DDS conduct maintenance on the SDV.
That is to say, the throttle and the brake pedal must be arranged in a proximity to each other so when the brakes are fully compressed the brake pedal is still slightly higher and directly adjacent to the throttle.
Foreign figs are dried in the oven so as to destroy the larvae of the Cynips insect, and are then compressed into small boxes.
In the glowing basin field dampeners were slowly compressing the amorphous energy bubble into a corridor of coherent imagery.
She was still dressed in her decontamination suit, but she was no longer wearing the helmet, the tank of compressed air, or the waste recycling unit.
The compressed air unit started up with a roar and the drills began to eat into the rock.
That plate on the front is a hundred-meter disk of compressed matter, electromagnetically stabilized.
The bone splattered, the ethmoidal sinus ruptured into the olfactory bulb, which meant Les Pruel could no longer smell anything, and the copper-pointed slug did a wing-ding puree of the cerebrum taking the top of his head off like an eggshell surrendering to compressed air.
He compressed his lips in gratitude and peered through his faceplate, looking delighted in a pious way.
The Australian Unwins, sitting with the rival owners of Flokati, were concerned about a lifelessness they had detected in Upper Gumtree due to the fact that on the train their horse had been fed a restricted diet of compressed food nuts and high-grade hay and the Flokati people were cheerfully saying that on so long a stretch without exercise, good hay was best.
Australian Unwins, sitting with the rival owners of Flokati, were concerned about a lifelessness they had detected in Upper Gumtree due to the fact that on the train their horse had been fed a restricted diet of compressed food nuts and high-grade hay and the Flokati people were cheerfully saying that on so long a stretch without exercise, good hay was best.
Eventually all the tiny foraminiferans and coccoliths and so on die and fall to the bottom of the sea, where they are compressed into limestone.
The paucity of bleeding noted from the edges is probably secondary to spasms of the frontalis muscles, compressing ripped blood vessels.
Red Sox cap on the visiting Syrian Satellite pro, and the Syrian Satellite pro sits with most of the prorec-tors, looking confused, his shoulder taped up with a heatable compress, being polite about the comparative authenticity of Mrs.