condense
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
condense
v 1: undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid
state and fall in drops; "water condenses"; "The acid
distills at a specific temperature" [syn: {condense},
{distill}, {distil}]
2: make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a
summary" [syn: {digest}, {condense}, {concentrate}]
3: remove water from; "condense the milk"
4: cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid; "The cold air
condensed the steam"
5: become more compact or concentrated; "Her feelings condensed"
6: develop due to condensation; "All our planets condensed out
of the same material"
7: compress or concentrate; "Congress condensed the three-year
plan into a six-month plan" [syn: {condense}, {concentrate},
{contract}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Condense \Con*dense"\, v. i.
1. To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form.
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Nitrous acid is gaseous at ordinary temperatures,
but condenses into a very volatile liquid at the
zero of Fahrenheit. --H. Spencer.
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2. (Chem.)
(a) To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with
or without separation of some unimportant side
products.
(b) To undergo polymerization.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Condense \Con*dense"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Condensed}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Condensing}.] [L. condensare; con- + densare to make
thick or dense, densus thick, dense: cf. F. condenser. See
{Dense}, and cf. {Condensate}.]
1. To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or
concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to
abridge; to epitomize.
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In what shape they choose,
Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure. --Milton.
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The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid
may be condensed into the usual formula,
dissimulation, procrastination, and again
dissimulation. --Motley.
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2. (Chem. & Physics) To reduce into another and denser form,
as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid
form, or steam into water.
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{Condensed milk}, milk reduced to the consistence of very
thick cream by evaporation (usually with addition of
sugar) for preservation and transportation.
{Condensing engine}, a steam engine in which the steam is
condensed after having exerted its force on the piston.
Syn: To compress; contract; crowd; thicken; concentrate;
abridge; epitomize; reduce.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
137 Moby Thesaurus words for "condense":
abbreviate, abridge, abstract, accelerate, aggravate,
be telegraphic, beef up, blow up, bob, boil down, brief, cake,
candy, capsule, capsulize, circumscribe, clip, coarct, compact,
complicate, compress, concentrate, concrete, congest, consolidate,
constrict, constringe, contract, cram, cramp, crop, crowd,
crystallize, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short,
cut short, decrease, deepen, densen, densify, digest, distill,
dock, double, draw, draw in, draw together, dribble, drip, dripple,
drop, elide, enhance, epitomize, exacerbate, exaggerate, filter,
foreshorten, granulate, gurgle, heat up, heighten, hop up, hot up,
intensify, inventory, jam, jazz up, key up, knit, leach, lixiviate,
magnify, make complex, minimize, mow, narrow, nip, nutshell,
outline, percolate, poll, pollard, press, prune, pucker, pucker up,
purse, ram down, ramify, reap, recap, recapitulate, redouble,
reduce, reinforce, retrench, seep, set, sharpen, shave, shear,
shorten, shrink, sketch, sketch out, snub, solidify, soup up,
spurtle, squeeze, step up, strangle, strangulate, strengthen,
stunt, sum, sum up, summarize, summate, sweat, synopsize,
take a set, take in, telescope, thicken, trickle, trim, triple,
truncate, waste no words, weep, whet, wrinkle
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