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.
A person who operates machinery.
A constructor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines.
One skilled in the use of machine tools for fashioning metal parts or tools out of metal.
A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.