Expand vs Compress - What's the difference?
expand | compress | Antonyms |
(label) To change (something) from a smaller form and/or size to a larger one.
(label) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(label) To express (something) at length and/or in detail.
To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.
To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same natural number yielding a fraction of equal value
(label) To (be) change(d) from a smaller form/size to a larger one.
(label) To (be) increase(d) in extent, number, volume or scope.
(label) To speak or write at length or in detail.
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(label) To feel generous or optimistic.
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
Compress is a antonym of expand.
In transitive terms the difference between expand and compress
is that expand is to express (something) at length and/or in detail while compress is to abridge.In intransitive terms the difference between expand and compress
is that expand is to feel generous or optimistic while compress is to be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.As a noun compress is
(folded_cloth) 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.expand
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Verb
(en verb)- Then with expanded wings he steers his flight.
Synonyms
* open out, spread, spread out, unfold * enlarge * (to express at length or in detail) elaborate (on), expand onAntonyms
* contract * contract * factorDerived terms
* expandable * expandercompress
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
- 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.