COMPRESS
\kəmpɹˈɛs], \kəmpɹˈɛs], \k_ə_m_p_ɹ_ˈɛ_s]\
Definitions of COMPRESS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the data"
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a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever)
By Princeton University
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make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the data"
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a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water.
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To embrace sexually.
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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.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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To press together: to force into a narrower space: to condense.
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Folds of linen, used in surgery to make due pressure on any part.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A device for compressing.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A pad of folds of linen, &c., used by surgeons to press by means of a bandage on any part.
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To press together; to force into a narrower compass; to condense.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Folds of soft linen cloth used to cover the dressings of wounds, &c., or to keep them in their proper place and defend them from the air.
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To crush or force into a smaller bulk; to press together; to bring within narrow limits; to squeeze.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Folded pieces of lint or rag, so contrived as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure upon any part. According to their shape, direction, and use, compresses have been called long ( (F.) longuettes,) square (carrees,) triangular, prismatic, graduated (graduees,) split (fendues,) fenetrees, criblees, croix de Malte, oblique, circular, dividing (divisives,) uniting (unisantes,) cribriform, &c.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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