Distort vs Compress - What's the difference?
distort | compress |
To bring something out of shape.
(ergative) To become misshapen.
To give a false or misleading account of
(obsolete) distorted; misshapen
* Spenser
To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
* D. Webster
* Melmoth
To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
To condense into a more economic, easier format.
To abridge.
(technology) To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
(obsolete) To embrace sexually.
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.
A machine for compressing
In lang=en terms the difference between distort and compress
is that distort is to give a false or misleading account of while compress is to abridge.In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between distort and compress
is that distort is (obsolete) distorted; misshapen while compress is (obsolete) to embrace sexually.As verbs the difference between distort and compress
is that distort is to bring something out of shape while compress is to make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.As an adjective distort
is (obsolete) distorted; misshapen.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.distort
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Verb
(en verb)- In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.
Derived terms
* distorterAdjective
(en adjective)- Her face was ugly and her mouth distort .
compress
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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
- The force required to compress a spring varies linearly with the displacement.
- events of centuries compressed within the compass of a single life
- The same strength of expression, though more compressed , runs through his historical harangues.
- ''Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel
- This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.
- If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.
- (Alexander Pope)
Synonyms
* (press together ): compact, condense, pack, press, squash, squeeze * (be pressed together ): contract * (condense, abridge ): abridge, condense, shorten, truncateAntonyms
* (press together ): expand * (be pressed together ): decontract * (condense, abridge ): expand, lengthen * (make computing data smaller ): uncompressDerived terms
* compressed * compressed air * compressedly * compressibility * compressible * compression * compressive * compressive strength * compressor * decompressEtymology 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)- He held a cold compress over the sprain.
