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- verb Present participle of
compress .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun applying pressure
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Examples
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If the boy was dead, the man would have done a more convincing job in compressing the chest.
The return of Pallywood Not a sheep 2009
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Noyes, Libby, and Davis succeed in compressing into a paragraph the lifetime of an individual, without sacrificing the details which make genealogy interesting.
Archive 2005-06-01 2005
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I see no impropriety either in compressing an idea in less than fourteen lines for simplicity or in lengthening it for perspicuity.
Letter 85 1798
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I'm actually fascinated by the idea of compressing my earthly belongings into the smallest possible space.
What's the difference between living in a trailer... Ann Althouse 2007
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I'm actually fascinated by the idea of compressing my earthly belongings into the smallest possible space.
What's the difference between living in a trailer... Ann Althouse 2007
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AVCHD was developed for consumers with the idea of compressing h. 264 video to the point it will fit on level 2-4 SD flash cards with reasonable record time.
VideoHelp.com Forum 2009
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• He experiment with air and the idea of compressing it and invented the first air pump.
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We've got a really bad mix of a sandwich here, with Henriette and Felix just kind of compressing this area.
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You're using a word here called "compressing" that some audio files aren't used to hearing.
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"As virtual environments-and the inherent management complexities for managing these environments-grow, EMC continues to bring to market storage solutions and features such as compressing virtual machines, cloning virtual machines, and automating failback/failover to solve our customers 'challenges."
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