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Etymologies
- Middle English compressen, from Old French compresser, from Late Latin compressāre, frequentative of Latin comprimere : com-, com- + premere, to press; see per-4 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“Another OTC product, aluminum acetate, can be used in compresses to dryout the lesions.”
“When you compress a text document using a ZIP application, the degree to which it compresses is distinctive and varies depending on the language the document was written in.”
“Opera Mini "compresses" web pages to make them faster to load, and to use less of a user's monthly data allowance, while speed tests conducted by technology website Lifehacker found that Opera Mini loaded web pages much faster than Safari.”
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
“Is there anything, such as compresses, that may be applied for relief?? kat said …”
“So memory commit feature 'compresses' the memory, and it you do not do it in extreme, you can do it without any serious punishment, while still saving memory.”
“A photograph "brings time forward, but also compresses it, collapses it into one moment.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Roth: Thinking Photography With Diane Arbus and Errol Morris
“When Paul takes to the slopes—the skiing scenes are the best I've read since Mann's—time's passage thrillingly compresses and expands in his consciousness: He had the impression that they had left the cabin not several hours, but several days ago. . .”
“But businesses do like to groan, and governments always rush for the cold compresses and smelling salts when they hear the unlovely sound.”
“We would also have to buy the soft ankle cast and cold compresses he would need from them.”
Think Progress » GOP congressman praises government health care system that paid for his treatement.
“The Gospels are unanimous in portraying Jesus in distress, but the synoptics provide some telling details upon which Mark and Matthew mostly agree, details that Luke compresses, and John omits entirely.”
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