compressed

/kəmˈpɹɛst/

adj 2

Collocations

ADJ.

liquid, metallic, used

The compressed air in the tire slowly leaked out over several weeks.

VERB + COMPRESSED

bark, core, file, gas, plants, power, stocked

The compressed file was too large to attach to my email.

COMPRESSED + NOUN

ball, brows, ejector, folders, hydrogen, sensation, something, stopper

She felt a compressed sensation in her chest as the elevator descended rapidly.

PREP.

in, into, with

The data was compressed into a single file to save storage space.

ADV.

then

The files were compressed, then uploaded to the cloud storage system.

adj

Pressed tightly together.

Flattened, especially when along its entire length.

adjective — pressed tightly together

adjective — flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain le

Send it to me as a compressed file.

Tatoeba · #28509

The gas was compressed into a gas cylinder.

Tatoeba · #48799

This file has been compressed.

Tatoeba · #970912

If something was compressed, then something else expanded.

Tatoeba · #3665497

I stared in silence at Sherlock Holmes, whose lips were compressed and his brows drawn down over his eyes.

Tatoeba · #6310102

Jupiter does not have a molten metal core; instead, its magnetic field is created by a core of compressed liquid metallic hydrogen.

Tatoeba · #6547995

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