ALL meanings of compress
com·press
C c - verb compress When you compress something or when it compresses, it is pressed or squeezed so that it takes up less space. 3
- verb compress If you compress something such as a piece of writing or a description, you make it shorter. 3
- verb compress If an event is compressed into a short space of time, it is given less time to happen than normal or previously. 3
- countable noun compress A compress is a pad of wet or dry cloth pressed on part of a patient's body to reduce fever. 3
- verb compress to squeeze together or compact into less space; condense 3
- verb compress to apply a compression program to (electronic data) so that it takes up less space 3
- noun compress a wet or dry cloth or gauze pad with or without medication, applied firmly to some part of the body to relieve discomfort, reduce fever, drain a wound, etc 3
- noun compress a machine for packing material, esp cotton, under pressure 3
- verb transitive compress to press together; make more compact by or as by pressure 3
- noun compress a pad of folded cloth, sometimes medicated or moistened, for applying pressure, heat, cold, etc. to some part of the body 3
- noun compress a machine for compressing cotton bales 3
- noun compress A compress is a soft pad of gauze or other material applied with pressure to a part of the body to control hemorrhage or to supply heat, cold, moisture, or medication to alleviate pain or reduce infection. 3
- noun Technical meaning of compress 1. To feed data through any compression algorithm. 2. (tool) The Unix program "compress", now largely supplanted by gzip. Unix compress was written in C by Joseph M. Orost, James A. Woods et al., and was widely circulated via Usenet. It uses the Lempel-Ziv Welch algorithm and normally produces files with the suffix ".Z". Compress uses variable length codes. Initially, nine-bit codes are output until they are all used. When this occurs, ten-bit codes are used and so on, until an implementation-dependent maximum is reached. After every 10 kilobytes of input the compression ratio is checked. If it is decreasing then the entire string table is discarded and information is collected from scratch. 1
- transitive verb compress squeeze 1
- transitive verb compress condense, make more concise 1
- noun compress medical dressing, pad 1
- verb with object compress to press together; force into less space. 1
- verb with object compress to cause to become a solid mass: to compress cotton into bales. 1
- verb with object compress to condense, shorten, or abbreviate: The book was compressed by 50 pages. 1
- verb with object compress Computers. to reduce the storage space required for (data) by changing its format: The algorithm should compress the video file without losing any quality. 1
- noun compress Medicine/Medical. a soft, cloth pad held in place by a bandage and used to provide pressure or to supply moisture, cold, heat, or medication. 1
- noun compress an apparatus for compressing cotton bales. 1
- noun compress a warehouse for storing cotton bales before shipment. 1
- noun compress Flatten by pressure; squeeze ; press. 1
- noun compress 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. 0
- noun compress A machine for compressing. 0
- verb compress (Transitive Verb) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume. 0
- verb compress (Intransitive Verb) To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format. 0
- verb compress (Transitive Verb) To condense into a more economic, easier format. 0
- verb compress (Transitive Verb) To abridge. 0
- verb compress (Transitive Verb) (technology) To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits. 0
- verb compress (Obsolete (No longer in use)) To embrace sexually. 0