Condense vs Comprehend - What's the difference?

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Condense is a related term of comprehend.

As verbs the difference between condense and comprehend

is that condense is while comprehend is .

As an adjective condense

is condensed.

condense

English

Alternative forms

* condence

Verb

To decrease size or volume by concentration toward the essence.

An abridged dictionary can be further condensed to pocket size.

Boiling off water condenses a thin sauce into a soupier mixture.

To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate.

* Milton

In what shape they choose, / Dilated or condensed , bright or obscure.

* Motley

The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation.

(chemistry) To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation.

Synonyms

* (to decrease size or volume) minify

Antonyms

* extend * magnify

Adjective

(en adjective)

(archaic) Condensed; compact; dense.

The huge condense bodies of planets. — Bentley.

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comprehend

English

Verb

(en verb)

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.1:

And lothly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, / That nought but gall and venim comprehended […].

* 1776 , (Edward Gibbon), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Penguin 2009, p. 9:

In the second century of the Christian Æra, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.

To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly.