compress

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

1. (transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
2. (intransitive) To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
3. (transitive) To condense into a more economic, easier format.
4. (transitive) To abridge.
5. (transitive) To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
6. (obsolete) To embrace sexually.

Noun

1. A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice, etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.
2. A machine for compressing.

Conceptos

comprimir

compresa

oprimir

apretar

prensar

presionar

aplastar

apelmazar

apiñar

compactar

empuñar

instar

tupir

tesar

😓

agrupar apretadamente

ejercer presión

comprimirse

ajustar

de compresas

apremiar

apurar

atar

condensar

exigir

morder

pellizcar

Opuesto a

expand, decontract, lengthen, uncompress

Sinónimos

press

squeeze

condense

compact

contract

press together

crush

constrict

pack

poultice

stuff

shrink

cram

bandage

abridge

pinch

shorten

flatten

clench

grip

squash

reduce

pledget

push down

push

wad

clamp

🗜️

constriction

pack together

grasp

zip

strangulate

fomentation

tamp

concentrate

ram

🐏

tighten

abbreviate

purse

👛

mash

crowd together

jam

oppress

crowd

clip

contraction

astringe

constrictor

grieve

constricting

Traducciones

comprimere

komprimieren

comprimeren

compresse

comprimer

comprimir

Kompresse

verdichten

stringere

pressare

συμπιέζω

zusammendrücken

Umschlag

✉️

zusammenpressen

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/kəmˈpɹɛs/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: compressen

In summary

From Middle English compressen, from Old French compresser, from Late Latin compressare (“to press hard/together”), from Latin compressus, the past participle of comprimō (“to compress”), itself from com- (“together”) + premō (“press”).