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| n. (artifact) | 1. compact, powder compact | a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse. |
| ~ case | a portable container for carrying several objects.; "the musicians left their instrument cases backstage" |
| n. (communication) | 2. compact, concordat, covenant | a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action. |
| ~ written agreement | a legal document summarizing the agreement between parties. |
| ~ lateran treaty | the agreement signed in the Lateran Palace in 1929 by Italy and the Holy See which recognized the Vatican City as a sovereign and independent papal state. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. compact, compact car | a small and economical car. |
| ~ auto, automobile, car, motorcar, machine | a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine.; "he needs a car to get to work" |
| v. (contact) | 4. compact, pack | have the property of being packable or of compacting easily.; "This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well" |
| ~ wad, compact, bundle, pack | compress into a wad.; "wad paper into the box" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| v. (contact) | 5. bundle, compact, pack, wad | compress into a wad.; "wad paper into the box" |
| ~ arrange, set up | put into a proper or systematic order.; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order" |
| ~ compact, pack | have the property of being packable or of compacting easily.; "This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well" |
| ~ puddle | work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud. |
| v. (contact) | 6. compact, compress, pack together | make more compact by or as if by pressing.; "compress the data" |
| ~ press | exert pressure or force to or upon.; "He pressed down on the boards"; "press your thumb on this spot" |
| ~ wedge, squeeze, force | squeeze like a wedge into a tight space.; "I squeezed myself into the corner" |
| ~ tamp, tamp down, pack | press down tightly.; "tamp the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso" |
| v. (contact) | 7. compact, compress, constrict, contract, press, squeeze | squeeze or press together.; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle" |
| ~ choke, strangle | constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing. |
| ~ prim | contract one's lips.; "She primmed her lips after every bite of food" |
| ~ tighten | become tight or tighter.; "The rope tightened" |
| ~ astringe | constrict or bind or draw together.; "Lemon juice astringes the tissue in the mouth" |
| ~ strangulate | constrict a hollow organ or vessel so as to stop the flow of blood or air. |
| ~ convulse | contract involuntarily, as in a spasm.; "The muscles in her face convulsed" |
| ~ convulse | cause to contract.; "The spasm convulses her facial muscles" |
| ~ bear down, overbear | contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery. |
| ~ choke, gag, fret | be too tight; rub or press.; "This neckband is choking the cat" |
| ~ scrag, choke | wring the neck of.; "The man choked his opponent" |
| adj. | 8. compact | closely and firmly united or packed together.; "compact soil"; "compact clusters of flowers" |
| ~ cloggy, clayey, heavy | (used of soil) compact and fine-grained.; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated" |
| ~ close-packed | packed especially tightly. |
| ~ consolidated | forming a solid mass. |
| ~ impacted, wedged | wedged or packed in together.; "an impacted tooth" |
| ~ packed | pressed together or compressed.; "packed snow" |
| ~ serried | (especially of rows as of troops or mountains) pressed together.; "in serried ranks" |
| ~ tight | packed closely together.; "they stood in a tight little group"; "hair in tight curls"; "the pub was packed tight" |
| ~ concentrated | gathered together or made less diffuse.; "their concentrated efforts"; "his concentrated attention"; "concentrated study"; "a narrow thread of concentrated ore" |
| adj. | 9. compact, heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset | having a short and solid form or stature.; "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thickset young man" |
| ~ short, little | low in stature; not tall.; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man" |
| adj. | 10. compact, compendious, 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" |
| ~ concise | expressing much in few words.; "a concise explanation" |
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