Definition of compress

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Compress (v. t.) 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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Distribution :: Distribution (n.) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission..
Phocodontia :: Phocodontia (n. pl.) A group of extinct carnivorous whales. Their teeth had compressed and serrated crowns. It includes Squalodon and allied genera.
Air Engine :: Air engine () An engine driven by heated or by compressed air.
Compressibleness :: Compressibleness (n.) The quality of being compressible; compressibility.
Astringe :: Astringe (v. t.) To bind fast; to constrict; to contract; to cause parts to draw together; to compress.
Compress :: Compress (n.) A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part..
Constricted :: Constricted (a.) Contracted or compressed so as to be smaller in certain places or parts than in others.
Windage :: Windage (n.) The sudden compression of the air caused by a projectile in passing close to another body.
Compressor :: Compressor (n.) Anything which serves to compres.
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) An elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other force..
Squeezing :: Squeezing (n.) The act of pressing; compression; oppression.
Air :: Air (n.) The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable..
Taeniosomi :: Taeniosomi (n. pl.) An order of fishes remarkable for their long and compressed form. The ribbon fishes are examples. See Ribbon fish, under Ribbon..
Incompressibility :: Incompressibility (n.) The quality of being incompressible, or incapable of reduction in volume by pressure; -- formerly supposed to be a property of liquids..
Strangle :: Strangle (v. t.) To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope..
Trip :: Trip (v. t.) To release, let fall, or see free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent..
Pycnodontini :: Pycnodontini (n. pl.) An extinct order of ganoid fishes. They had a compressed body, covered with dermal ribs (pleurolepida) and with enameled rhomboidal scales..
Smack :: Smack (v. t.) To open, as the lips, with an inarticulate sound made by a quick compression and separation of the parts of the mouth; to make a noise with, as the lips, by separating them in the act of kissing or after tasting..
Strangurious :: Strangulation (n.) Inordinate compression or constriction of a tube or part, as of the throat; especially, such as causes a suspension of breathing, of the passage of contents, or of the circulation, as in cases of hernia..
Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies..
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