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compress

/kəmˈpɹɛs/ verbo C1

En español: comprimir, comprimirse

  1. To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume. (transitive) · The force required to compress a spring varies linearly with the displacement.
  2. To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format. (intransitive) · Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel
  3. To condense into a more economic, easier format. (transitive) · This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.
  4. To abridge. (transitive) · If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.
  5. To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits. (transitive)
  6. To make a pulse or particle bunch shorter by applying dispersion to it. (transitive)

He/she/it compresses · Pasado compressed · Participio pasado compressed · Forma en -ing compressing

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De la biblioteca

One piece, about three feet in length, had a very marked indentation at one end, while several were flattened at the sides as if they had been compressed by some considerable weight.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 24 · B2
A tall young man, with light hair, clear gray eyes, and thin and compressed lips, dressed in a blue coat with beautifully carved gold buttons, a white neckcloth, and a tortoiseshell eye-glass suspended by a silken thread, and which, by an effort of the superciliary and zygomatic muscles, he fixed in his eye, entered, with a half-official air, without smiling or speaking.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 428 · C1
Danglars felt the irony and compressed his lips.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 474 · C1
I stared in silence at Sherlock Holmes, whose lips were compressed and his brows drawn down over his eyes.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 66 · B2

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