compact

Definition

  • verb: to press (something) so that it is harder and fills less space
  • verb: to make up by connecting or combining
  • adjective: smaller than other things of the same kind
  • adjective: predominantly formed or filled
  • synonyms: compose, composed

Examples

  • The crib folds 'compactly' for traveling. [=the crib can be folded so that its parts are close together]

  • The computer offers power as well as 'compactness'. [=it is both powerful and small]

  • a 'trash compactor' [=a machine that presses trash together]

Movie quotes

  • (..) by Fortinbras of Norway... ...thereto pricked on by a most ambitious pride, dared to the combat In which our valiant Hamlet did slay this Fortinbras Who, by a sealed compact, did forfeit with his life all those his lands... ...which he stood seized of to the conqueror Now sir, young Fortinbras, (..)
    2015 Hamlet