compress
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever)
Types & categories
- medical dressing hypernym
Parts & wholes
- fomentation substance meronym
Sense 2 verb
make more compact by or as if by pressing
compress the data
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- decompress antonym
- compressing derivation
- compaction derivation
- compression derivation
- press entails
Sense 3 verb
squeeze or press together
she compressed her lips
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- pressing derivation
- compressing derivation
- contracture derivation
- contraction derivation
- constriction derivation
- constrictor derivation
- compressor derivation
- contractile organ derivation
- compression derivation
- compressible derivation
- squeezable derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | substance meronym | Parts & wholes | fomentation |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | medical dressing |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | decompress |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | compressing |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | compaction |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | compression |
| 2 | entails | Related & opposite | press |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | wedge |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | tamp |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | pressing |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | compressing |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | contracture |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | contraction |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | constriction |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | constrictor |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | compressor |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | contractile organ |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | compression |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | compressible |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | squeezable |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | tighten |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | choke |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | prim |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | astringe |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | strangulate |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | convulse |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | convulse |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | bear down |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | choke |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | scrag |