A machine for compressing.
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.
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 make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
To condense into a more economic, easier format.
Any piece of work done.
A difficult or tedious undertaking.
A process or execution of a program.
An objective.
A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
To charge, as with a fault.
To assign a task to, or impose a task on.
To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax