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# compressed

«compressed» in Mova's school dictionary: **Pressed or squeezed into a smaller space: compressed air** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (compressed); verb, past form of compress (compress, compresses, compressed, compressing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Pressed or squeezed into a smaller space: compressed air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compressed/#m1)

2) Made shorter or smaller: a compressed timetable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compressed/#m2)

3) (computing) Made into a smaller file that takes less space: a compressed folder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compressed/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science, gases can be compressed (squeezed into a smaller volume) but solids and liquids hardly at all; compressed air fills tyres and diving tanks. In computing, compressed files download faster. Phrases: compressed air, compressed file, compressed into.

### examples

- Divers breathe compressed air from tanks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compressed/#x1)
- The sponge compressed when I squeezed it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compressed/#x2)
- Gases can be compressed, but liquids cannot easily be. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compressed/#x3)
- Dad compressed the photos into one small file. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compressed/#x4)
- The whole year's work was compressed into one week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compressed/#x5)
- Compressed gas cans can explode if heated. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compressed/#x6)

### note

Regular verb: compressed. Noun: compression; a compress is also a pad pressed on a wound. In science, compressing a gas makes it take less volume; its mass stays the same.

### Trees and pragmatics

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