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Dapper vs Compact - What's the difference?

dapper | compact |

As adjectives the difference between dapper and compact

is that dapper is neat, trim while compact is closely packed, ie packing much in a small space.

As a noun 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.

As a verb compact is

to make more dense; to compress.

dapper

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Neat, trim.
  • * 1892 , , The Slave Of The Lamp :
    • This entrance is through a little courtyard, in which is the stable and coach-house combined, where Madame Perinere, a lady who paints the magic word "Modes" beneath her name on the door-post of number seventeen, keeps the dapper little cart and pony which carry her bonnets to the farthest corner of Paris.
  • Stylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy.
  • * 1917 , , The Man With Two Left Feet :
    • Going down the street, you would meet a typical commercial traveller, dapper and alert.

    Derived terms

    * Dapper Dan

    Anagrams

    * ----

    compact

    English

    (wikipedia compact)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An agreement or contract.
    • Synonyms
    * agreement, contract, pact, treaty

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space.
  • * Isaac Newton
    • glass, crystal, gems, and other compact bodies
  • Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
    • a compact laptop computer
  • (mathematics, uncomparable, of a set in an Euclidean space) Closed and bounded.
    • 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.
  • (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.
    • a compact discourse
  • (obsolete) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
  • * Shakespeare
    • compact with her that's gone
  • * Peacham
    • a pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together
  • (obsolete) Composed or made; with of .
  • * Milton
    • A wandering fire, / Compact of unctuous vapour.
    Synonyms
    * (closely packed) concentrated, dense, serried, solid, thick, tight
    Derived terms
    * compact car * compact disc * locally compact

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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]:
    • 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

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make more dense; to compress.
  • * '>citation
  • To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
  • * Bible, Eph. iv. 16
    • The whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth.
    Synonyms
    * (make more dense) compress, condense

    Anagrams

    * English heteronyms ----