compress

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒmpɹɛs/    美 /ˈkɑmpɹɛs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — He held a cold compress over the sprain.
  2. A machine for compressing.
动词 v.
  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
    — The command-line tool gzip allows you to compress files in a few different ways. First, gzip can compress results from standard input.
  6. To make a pulse or particle bunch shorter by applying dispersion to it. transitive
    — Diffraction gratings are by far the most common elements used to stretch and compress pulses because of their substantial angular dispersion, […]
  7. To embrace sexually. obsolete
    — This nymph compreſs'd by him vvho rules the day, / VVhom Delphi and the Delian iſle obey, / Andræmon lov'd; and, bleſs'd in all thoſe charms / That pleas'd a God, ſucceeded to her arms.

词形变化

compresses present,singular,third-person compressing participle,present compressed participle,past compressed past compresses plural

词汇关系

近义词
astringe compact telescope compactify condense densitize pack press mash scrunch smush squoosh squash squish squeeze thring thrutch
反义词
decompact decompactify decompress expand uncompress densen
下位词
crush crunch tamp down wad wring wring out overcompress recompact recompress supercompress
衍生词
compressed compressed air compressedly compressibility compressible compressingly compression compressive compressive strength compressor compressure decompress overcompress precompress recompress supercompress
相关词
compression thicken

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
From Middle French compresse, from compresse (“to compress”), 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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