To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
To abridge.
To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
To condense into a more economic, easier format.
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 machine for compressing.
To get narrower.
To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.
To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.
Having a small margin or degree.
Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.