Compact vs. Compress — What's the Difference?

Closely and firmly united or packed together; dense

Compress is a Unix shell compression program based on the LZW compression algorithm. Compared to more modern compression utilities such as gzip and bzip2, compress performs faster and with less memory usage, at the cost of a significantly lower compression ratio.

Occupying little space compared with others of its type

To press together

Brief and to the point; concise

To make more compact by or as if by pressing.

Marked by or having a short solid physique

(Computers) To encode (data) to minimize the space required for storage or transmittal

To press or join firmly together

(Medicine) A soft pad of gauze or other material applied with pressure to a part of the body to control hemorrhage or to supply heat, cold, moisture, or medication to alleviate pain or reduce infection.

To make by pressing or joining together; compose.

A machine for compressing material.

To consolidate; combine.

(transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.

To be capable of being pressed tightly together or to become so pressed

(intransitive) To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.

A small case containing a mirror, pressed powder, and a powder puff.

(transitive) To condense into a more economic, easier format.

An automobile that is bigger in size than a subcompact but smaller than a midsize car.

(transitive) To abridge.

An agreement or a covenant.

To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.

An agreement or contract.

(obsolete) To embrace sexually.

A small, slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powderpuff; that fits into a woman's purse or handbag, or that slips into one's pocket.

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.

A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.

A machine for compressing.

(intransitive) To form an agreement or contract.

To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water.

(transitive) To make more dense; to compress.

To embrace sexually.

To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.

To reduce the space required for storage (of binary data) by an algorithm which converts the data to a smaller number of bits while preserving the information content. The compressed data is usually decompressed to recover the initial data format before subsequent use.

Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space.

A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.

Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.

A cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever)

Such that every open cover of the given set has a finite subcover. In a Euclidean space this is equivalent to a Closed and bounded set.

Make more compact by or as if by pressing;

Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose.

Squeeze or press together;

(obsolete) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.

(obsolete) Composed or made; with of.

Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.

Composed or made; - with of.

Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense.

Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose; as, a compact discourse.

To thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; - as the parts which compose a body.

To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.

An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract.

A small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse

A signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action

A small and economical car

Have the property of being packable or compactable or of compacting easily;

Compress into a wad;

Make more compact by or as if by pressing;

Squeeze or press together;

Closely and firmly united or packed together;

Closely crowded together;

Heavy and compact in form or stature;

Briefly giving the gist of something;