Associations to the word «Compress»

COMPRESS, verb. (transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.

COMPRESS, verb. (intransitive) To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.

COMPRESS, verb. (transitive) To condense into a more economic, easier format.

COMPRESS, verb. (transitive) To abridge.

COMPRESS, verb. (technology) (transitive) To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.

COMPRESS, verb. (obsolete) To embrace sexually.

COMPRESS, noun. ​ 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.

COMPRESS, noun. A machine for compressing

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

COMPRESS, verb. Make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the data".

COMPRESS, verb. Squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle".