A Quick and Simple Dictionary

compress

1. Verb.  (transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
2. Verb.  (intransitive) To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
3. Verb.  (transitive) To condense into a more economic, easier format.
4. Verb.  (transitive) To abridge.
5. Verb.  (technology) (transitive) To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
6. Noun.  A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.
7. Noun.  A machine for compressing.