Compact
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An agreement or contract. A small folding mirror containing powder that fits into a woman's purse or handbag.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To make more dense; to compress.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space. Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space. (of a set) Closed and bounded. Such that every exhaustion of it by (overlapping) open balls has the property that some finitely many of those balls will also cover it.
Example sentence: Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
Compress
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.To condense into a more economic, easier format.To abridge.To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: 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
Example sentence: The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.