Compress

//kəmˈpɹɛs//

"Compress" in a Sentence (20 examples)

Apply a compress to the affected part every two hours.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

A baler is used to compress hay into bales.

I stomped on the pile of leaves to compress it.

You'll need to compress those files, because they don't fit on the computer's hard drive.

Scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory report they were able to create a type of fusion reaction by bombarding a microscopic pellet of fuel with beams from 192 powerful lasers to compress its component parts — hydrogen isotopes known as deuterium and tritium — and fuse them together at the atomic level.

Since futons are bulky, it's a good idea to compress and store futons that are used infrequently, such as guest futons, in a vacuum-sealed storage bag.

The black hole caused the ship to stretch and compress.

Miroslav applied a cold compress to the bite area to help reduce the swelling.

You can use a program to compress the file.

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The force required to compress a spring varies linearly with the displacement.

events of centuries […] compressed within the compass of a single life

The same strength of expression, though more compressed, runs through his historical harangues.

Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel

This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.

If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.

The command-line tool gzip allows you to compress files in a few different ways. First, gzip can compress results from standard input.

Diffraction gratings are by far the most common elements used to stretch and compress pulses because of their substantial angular dispersion, […]

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.

He held a cold compress over the sprain.

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