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Compress can be a verb or a noun.
compress used as a verb:
- 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." - To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
"Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel" - To condense into a more economic, easier format.
"This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram." - To abridge.
"If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information." - To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
compress used as a 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.
"He held a cold compress over the sprain." - A machine for compressing
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is compress?
- Verb usage: The force required to compress a spring varies linearly with the displacement.
- Verb usage: Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel
- Verb usage: This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.
- Verb usage: If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.
- Noun usage: He held a cold compress over the sprain.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of compress are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of compress, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
