compressed

compressed
    adj 1: pressed tightly together; "with lips compressed" [syn:
           {compressed}, {tight}]
    2: reduced in volume by pressure; "compressed air"
    3: flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain
       leafstalks or flatfishes) [syn: {compressed}, {flat}]
    

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.]
   1. 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.
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            Events of centuries . . . compressed within the
            compass of a single life.             --D. Webster.
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            The same strength of expression, though more
            compressed, runs through his historical harangues.
                                                  --Melmoth.
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   2. To embrace sexually. [Obs.] --Pope.
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   3. (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.
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   Syn: To crowd; squeeze; condense; reduce; abridge.
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Compressed \Com*pressed"\, a.
   1. Pressed together; compacted; reduced in volume by
      pressure.
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   2. (Bot.) Flattened lengthwise.
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   {Compressed-air engine}, an engine operated by the elastic
      force of compressed air.
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104 Moby Thesaurus words for "compressed":
      Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed,
      brief, brusque, capsule, capsulized, clamped, clipped, close,
      close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, compact, compacted,
      compendious, concentrated, concise, concrete, condensed, congested,
      consolidated, constricted, contracted, crammed, crammed full,
      cramped, crisp, cropped, crowded, curt, curtailed, cut, cut short,
      dense, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, epigrammatic, firm,
      gluey, gnomic, hard, heavy, impenetrable, impermeable, jam-packed,
      jammed, knitted, laconic, massive, mowed, mown, nipped, nonporous,
      packed, pinched, pinched-in, pithy, pointed, pollard, polled,
      pruned, puckered, pursed, reaped, reserved, sententious, serried,
      shaved, sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened,
      snub, snubbed, solid, solidified, squeezed, strangled,
      strangulated, substantial, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn,
      terse, thick, thick-growing, thickset, tight, to the point,
      trimmed, truncated, viscid, viscose, viscous, wasp-waisted,
      wrinkled