Compact vs Stanch - What's the difference?
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Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space.
* Isaac Newton
Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
(mathematics, uncomparable, of a set in an Euclidean space) Closed and bounded.
(topology, uncomparable, of a set) Such that every open cover of the given set has a finite subcover.
Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose.
(obsolete) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
* Shakespeare
* Peacham
(obsolete) Composed or made; with of .
* Milton
A small, slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powderpuff; that fits into a woman's purse or handbag, or that slips into ones pocket.
A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
* 2012 , BBC News: Dundee Courier makes move to compact [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-16576612]:
To make more dense; to compress.
* '>citation
To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
* Bible, Eph. iv. 16
To stop the flow of.
* Francis Bacon
To cease, as the flowing of blood.
* Bible, Luke viii. 44
To prop; to make stanch, or strong.
* Emerson
To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.
That which stanches or checks.
A floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.
Strong and tight; sound; firm.
* Evelyn
Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steadfast.
* Prior
Close; secret; private.
* John Locke
Compact is a related term of stanch.
In lang=en terms the difference between compact and stanch
is that compact is to make more dense; to compress while stanch is to prop; to make stanch, or strong.As nouns the difference between compact and stanch
is that compact is an agreement or contract or compact can be a small, slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powderpuff; that fits into a woman's purse or handbag, or that slips into ones pocket while stanch is that which stanches or checks.As adjectives the difference between compact and stanch
is that compact is closely packed, ie packing much in a small space while stanch is strong and tight; sound; firm.As verbs the difference between compact and stanch
is that compact is to make more dense; to compress while stanch is to stop the flow of.compact
English
(wikipedia compact)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Synonyms
* agreement, contract, pact, treatyEtymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- glass, crystal, gems, and other compact bodies
- a compact laptop computer
- A set S of real numbers is called compact if every sequence in S has a subsequence that converges to an element again contained in S.
- a compact discourse
- compact with her that's gone
- a pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together
- A wandering fire, / Compact of unctuous vapour.
Synonyms
* (closely packed) concentrated, dense, serried, solid, thick, tightDerived terms
* compact car * compact disc * locally compactNoun
(en noun)- The Dundee Courier has announced the newspaper will be relaunching as a compact later this week. Editor Richard Neville said a "brighter, bolder" paper would appear from Saturday, shrunk from broadsheet to tabloid size.
See also
*Verb
(en verb)- The whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth.
Synonyms
* (make more dense) compress, condenseAnagrams
* English heteronyms ----stanch
English
Alternative forms
* staunchVerb
(es)- A small amount of cotton can be stuffed into the nose to stanch the flow of blood if necessary.
- Iron or a stone laid to the neck doth stanch the bleeding of the nose.
- Immediately her issue of blood stanched .
- His gathered sticks to stanch the wall / Of the snow tower when snow should fall.
Noun
(es)- (Knight)
Adjective
(er)- a stanch ship
- One of the closets is parqueted with plain deal, set in diamond, exceeding stanch and pretty.
- a stanch''' churchman; a '''stanch friend or adherent
- In politics I hear you're stanch .
- this to be kept stanch
