compress
Significado (Inglés)
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- To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
- To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
- To condense into a more economic, easier format.
- To abridge.
- To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
- (obsolete) To embrace sexually.
Sinónimos
press together
push down
abbreviate
pack together
press down
make a dent
force down
make tight
blow against
press tightly together
make flat
fill full
make brief
bend inward
make hard
astringe
load down
make smaller
Frecuencia
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/kəmˈpɹɛs/
Etimoloxía (Inglés)
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”).
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