Definitions for compress

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compress com·press

Spelling: [verb kuh m-pres; noun

IPA: /verb kəmˈprɛs; noun ˈkɒm prɛs/

Compress is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 310 anagrams from letters in compress (cemoprss).

Definitions for compress

noun

1. 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.
2. an apparatus for compressing cotton bales.
3. a warehouse for storing cotton bales before shipment.

verb (used with object)

1. to press together; force into less space.
2. to cause to become a solid mass:
3. to condense, shorten, or abbreviate:
4. Computers. to reduce the storage space required for (data) by changing its format:

Origin of compress

1350-1400; (v.) Middle English (Middle French compresser) Late Latin compressāre, frequentative of Latin comprimere to squeeze together (see com-, Examples for compress

A waistcoat made so tight as slightly to compress the bowels and stomach.

But we did have to compress time, and we did have to composite some of the characters.

I do not know how people manage to compress themselves into stones like that.

compress and relax the skin repeatedly while immersed in both these baths.

Was it tough to compress a 700-page book into a two-hour movie?

They can but compress it within moderate and tolerable limits.

The assistant is to follow the knife with his finger and compress the vessels.

Injuries within the chest cavity may not be readily visible to medics, and are difficult to compress, King said.

In the chapter entitled “New Lands: America and the American Voice” Sutherland tries to compress 400 years into his six pages.

It also agreed to buy industrial equipment used to compress the gas for the pipelines from a company owned by Chesapeake.