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Compressed vs. Compress — What's the Difference?

Compressed vs. Compress — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Compressed and Compress

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Compressed

Pressed together or into less volume or space.

Compress

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.

Compressed

(Biology) Flattened, especially laterally or lengthwise, as certain leafstalks or the bodies of many fishes.

Compress

To press together
Compressed her lips.

Compressed

Pressed tightly together.
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Compress

To make more compact by or as if by pressing.

Compressed

Flattened, especially when along its entire length.

Compress

(Computers) To encode (data) to minimize the space required for storage or transmittal
Compressed the file so that it could be downloaded more quickly.

Compressed

Simple past tense and past participle of compress

Compress

(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.

Compressed

Pressed together; compacted; reduced in volume by pressure.

Compress

A machine for compressing material.

Compressed

Flattened lengthwise.

Compress

(transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
The force required to compress a spring varies linearly with the displacement.

Compressed

Pressed tightly together;
With lips compressed

Compress

(intransitive) To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel

Compressed

Reduced in volume by pressure;
Compressed air

Compress

(transitive) To condense into a more economic, easier format.
This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.

Compressed

Flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)

Compress

(transitive) To abridge.
If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.

Compress

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

Compress

(obsolete) To embrace sexually.

Compress

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.
He held a cold compress over the sprain.

Compress

A machine for compressing.

Compress

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.
Events of centuries . . . compressed within the compass of a single life.
The same strength of expression, though more compressed, runs through his historical harangues.

Compress

To embrace sexually.

Compress

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.

Compress

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.

Compress

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

Compress

Make more compact by or as if by pressing;
Compress the data

Compress

Squeeze or press together;
She compressed her lips
The spasm contracted the muscle

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