Crossword clues for compress
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
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.]
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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.
Events of centuries . . . compressed within the compass of a single life.
--D. Webster.The same strength of expression, though more compressed, runs through his historical harangues.
--Melmoth. To embrace sexually. [Obs.]
--Pope.-
(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.
Syn: To crowd; squeeze; condense; reduce; abridge.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s in the surgical sense, from compress (v.).
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 format. 3 (context transitive English) To condense into a more economic, easier format. 4 (context transitive English) To abridge. 5 (context technology transitive English) To make digital information smaller by encode it using fewer bits. 6 (context obsolete English) To embrace sexually. Etymology 2
n. 1 (senseid en folded_cloth) 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. 2 A machine for compressing
WordNet
v. make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the data" [syn: compact, pack together] [ant: decompress]
squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle" [syn: constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, press]
n. a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever)
Wikipedia
Compress is a Unix shell compression program based on the LZW compression algorithm. Compared to more modern compression utilities such as gzip and bzip2, compress performs faster and with less memory usage, at the cost of a significantly lower compression ratio.
The uncompress utility will restore files to their original state after they have been compressed using the compress utility. If no files are specified, the standard input will be uncompressed to the standard output.
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.