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Adjective compact has 4 senses
- compact - closely and firmly united or packed together; "compact soil"; "compact clusters of flowers"
Antonyms: loose, friable, light, sandy, shifting, unfirm, silty, unconsolidated
- compact, dense, thick - closely crowded together; "a compact shopping center"; "a dense population"; "thick crowds"
Antonym: distributed (indirect, via concentrated)
- compact, heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset - heavy and compact in form or stature; "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thick middle-aged man"; "a thickset young man"
Antonyms: thin, lean (indirect, via fat)
- compendious, compact, succinct, summary - briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"
Antonym: prolix (indirect, via concise)
Noun compact has 3 senses
- compact, powder compact - a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse
--1 is a kind of case
- covenant, compact, concordat - a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
--2 is a kind of written agreement
--2 has particulars: Lateran Treaty
- compact, compact car - a small and economical car
--3 is a kind of car, auto, automobile, machine, motorcar
Verb compact has 4 senses
- compact, pack - have the property of being packable or compactable or of compacting easily; "This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well"
--1 is one way to be
Sample sentence:
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- pack, bundle, wad, compact - compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box"
--2 is one way to arrange, set up
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s something PP
- compress, compact, pack together - make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the data"
--3 is one way to wedge, squeeze, force
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s something PP
- compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, press - squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"
--4 is one way to tighten
Sample sentence:
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