Look up: compress

1. compress
   Type: Term Pronunciation: kom′pres Definitions: 1. A pad of gauze or other material applied for local pressure.
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2. compress
   [n] - a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever) 2. [v] - make more compact by or as if by pressing 3. [v] - squeeze or press together
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3. Compress
   Store data in such a way that the file size is reduced.
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4. Compress
   Compress: 1. As a noun, a cloth or another material applied under pressure to an area of the skin and held in place for a period of time. A compress can be any temperature (cold, luke warm, or hot) and it can be dry or wet. It may also be impregnated with medication or, in traditional medicine, an h...
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5. Compress
   Com·press' transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Compressed ; p. pr & verbal noun Compressing .] [ Latin compressus , past participle of comprimere to compress: ...
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/124
   
   
6. Compress
   Com'press noun [ French compresse .] (Surg.) 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.
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7. compress
   Cloth (or another material) applied under pressure to an area of the skin and held in place for a period of time. A compress can be any temperature (cold, luke arm, or hot) and it can be dry or wet. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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8. compress
   noun a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever)
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9. compress
   constrict verb squeeze or press together; `she compressed her lips`; `the spasm contracted the muscle`
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10. compress
    verb make more compact by or as if by pressing; `compress the data`
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11. compress
    (kom´pres) a pad of gauze or similar dressing, for application of pressure or medication to a restricted area, or for local applications of heat or cold.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001
    
    
12. Compress
    • (v. t.) To embrace sexually. • (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. • (v. t.) To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce ...
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13. 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 file...
    Found on http://foldoc.org/compress
    
    
14. Compress
    `compress` is a UNIX compression program based on the LZC compression method, which is an LZW implementation using variable size pointers as in LZ78. Description of program : Files compressed by compress are typically given the extension `.Z`. Most tar programs will pipe their d...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compress