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Compress vs Encapsulate - What's the difference?

compress | encapsulate |

As verbs the difference between compress and encapsulate

is that compress is to make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume while encapsulate is (label) to enclose something as if in a capsule.

As a noun compress

is a multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice etc, used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.

compress

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) compresser, from compressare 'to press hard/together', from compressus, the past participle of comprimere 'to compress', itself from com- 'together' + premere 'to press'

Verb

  • To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
    • The force required to compress a spring varies linearly with the displacement.
  • * D. Webster
    • events of centuries compressed within the compass of a single life
  • * Melmoth
    • The same strength of expression, though more compressed , runs through his historical harangues.
  • To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
    • ''Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel
  • To condense into a more economic, easier format.
    • This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.
  • To abridge.
    • If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.
  • (technology) To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
  • (obsolete) To embrace sexually.
    • (Alexander Pope)
    Synonyms
    * (press together ): compact, condense, pack, press, squash, squeeze * (be pressed together ): contract * (condense, abridge ): abridge, condense, shorten, truncate
    Antonyms
    * (press together ): expand * (be pressed together ): decontract * (condense, abridge ): expand, lengthen * (make computing data smaller ): uncompress
    Derived terms
    * compressed * compressed air * compressedly * compressibility * compressible * compression * compressive * compressive strength * compressor * decompress
    Related terms
    * compression

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) compresse, from compresser 'to compress', from Late (etyl) compressare 'to press hard/together', from compressus, the past participle of comprimere 'to compress', itself from com- 'together' + premere 'to press'

    Noun

    (es)
  • A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.
    • He held a cold compress over the sprain.
  • A machine for compressing
    • Related terms
    * compression

    encapsulate

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (encapsulat)
  • (label) To enclose something as if in a capsule.
  • * 2014 Feb. 9, Matthew L. Wald, " Nuclear Waste Solution Seen in Desert Salt Beds," New York Times (retrieved 14 June 2014):
    • At a rate of six inches a year, the salt closes in on the waste and encapsulates it for what engineers say will be millions of years.
  • (label) To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.
  • * '>citation
  • To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.
  • (label) To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.

    • Derived terms

    * encapsulation