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# compress

«compress» in Mova's school dictionary: **to press or squeeze it so it takes up less space** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (compress, compresses, compressed, compressing); noun (a compress, compresses)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To compress something is to press or squeeze it so it takes up less space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compress/#m1)

2) (computing) To compress a file is to make it smaller so it is quicker to send or store. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compress/#m2)

3) To compress words or time is to make them shorter: «compress the story into one page». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compress/#m3)

4) A compress is a pad of cloth, often cold or warm and wet, pressed on the body to ease pain or swelling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compress/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science, gases can be compressed (air in a bike tyre or a spray can); springs compress when pushed. In first aid, a cold compress helps a bump or sprain. In computing, files are compressed into zip files. Phrases: «compressed air», «cold compress», «compress a file».

### examples

- When you squash a sponge, you compress it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compress/#x1)
- The air in a bicycle pump is compressed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compress/#x2)
- Dad compressed the photos so he could email them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compress/#x3)
- Put a cold compress on the bruise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compress/#x4)
- The spring compresses when you press it and springs back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compress/#x5)
- Gases can be compressed much more than liquids. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compress/#x6)
- We had to compress our story into 100 words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compress/#x7)

### note

Stress differs: verb com-PRESS, noun COM-press. Noun of the action: «compression». In science: gases compress easily; liquids and solids hardly at all.

### In the corpora

- [She was fine after a cold compress, but Tom was sent to the head and his mates went very quiet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «compress» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compress/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.