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Compact

adjective

1.

Closely and firmly united or packed together. "Compact clusters of flowers"

2.

Having a short and solid form or stature. Synonyms: heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset. "He was tall and heavyset" , "Stocky legs" , "A thickset young man"

3.

Briefly giving the gist of something. Synonyms: compendious, succinct, summary. "A compact style is brief and pithy" , "Succinct comparisons" , "A summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"

noun

1.

A small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse. Synonym: powder compact.

2.

A signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action. Synonyms: concordat, covenant.

3.

A small and economical car. Synonym: compact car.

verb

(past & past part. compacted; pres. part. compacting)

1.

Have the property of being packable or of compacting easily. Synonym: pack. "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well"

2.

Compress into a wad. Synonyms: bundle, pack, wad.

3.

Make more compact by or as if by pressing. Synonyms: compress, pack together.

4.

Squeeze or press together. Synonyms: compress, constrict, contract, press, squeeze. "The spasm contracted the muscle"

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"Compact" Quotes from Famous Books

... a furcate manner and confluent at the base, forming a compact tuft. The capillitium is membranaceous at the angles; spores very large compared with allied species, being 12 mu. The specimens were too fully matured for ...

— The North American Slime-Moulds • Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

... its limits, more diffuse and less compact than the caste or the sect, the class represents today the veritable crowd in a dynamic state, which can in a moment's time descend from that place and become statically a crowd. And it is from the sociological standpoint the most ...

— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

... if caused by the slight vibration of its body. After a while the serpent lay still, but never once was its eye removed from its victim. It was growing tired of dallying with its prey and was making ready to strike. The coil became close and compact, the rattle rising from the center, and the eye assumed a clear, metallic sharpness that appeared to throw forward its fateful rays into his own. He saw that the sport was done and the snake was ...

— Adrift in the Wilds - or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys • Edward S. Ellis

... obscurely careful in selecting his way, will presently be seen. In the direction last taken, he traveled on until the sun was bending to the western horizon, when he came to a thicket of bushes and vines, so compact in growth it seemed an impossibility to enter it, even in a crawling position, without the aid of an ax and pruning-knife. Glancing this way and that, as if to assure himself that no one was near, a precaution that might almost be set down as a ...

— Eveline Mandeville - The Horse Thief Rival • Alvin Addison

... had any one at that time hinted to her that I was to inherit the O'Shea estates, he would have dealt a most dangerous blow to her affection for me. The romance of that unknown future had a great share in our compact. And then we were so serious about it all—the very gravity it impressed being an ecstasy to our young hearts in the thought of self-importance and responsibility. Nor were we without our little tiffs—those lovers' quarrels that reveal ...

— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever

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