Meaning of COMPRESSED
| Pronunciation: | | kum'prest
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- [adj] reduced in volume by pressure; "compressed air"
- [adj] pressed into less space; "compressed gases"
- [adj] pressed tightly together; "with lips compressed"
- [adj] (biology) flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
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| | Synonyms: | | closed, compressible, concentrated, condensed, flat, shut, thin, tight |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Com*pressed"\, a.
1. Pressed together; compacted; reduced in volume by
pressure.
2. (Bot.) Flattened lengthwise.
{Compressed-air engine}, an engine operated by the elastic
force of compressed air.
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| | Definition: | | Flattened in one plane, either dorsally (bringing the front and back closer together) or laterally (bringing the sides closer together). |
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| | Related Terms: | | abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed, brief, brusque, capsule, capsulized, clamped, clipped, close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, compact, compacted, compendious, concentrated, concise, concrete, condensed, congested, consolidated, constricted, contracted, crammed, crammed full, cramped, crisp, cropped, crowded, curt, curtailed, cut, cut short, dense, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, epigrammatic, firm, gluey, gnomic, hard, heavy, impenetrable, impermeable, jammed, jam-packed, knitted, laconic, massive, mowed, mown, nipped, nonporous, packed, pinched, pinched-in, pithy, pointed, pollard, polled, pruned, puckered, pursed, reaped, reserved, sententious, serried, shaved, sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, solid, solidified, Spartan, squeezed, strangled, strangulated, substantial, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, thick, thick-growing, thickset, tight, to the point, trimmed, truncated, viscid, viscose, viscous, wasp-waisted, wrinkled |
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