Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - compact
Compact
compact
1. adj., v., & n. --adj. 1 closely or neatly packed together. 2 (of a piece of equipment, a room, etc.) well-fitted and practical though small. 3 (of style etc.) condensed; brief. 4 (esp. of the human body) small but well-proportioned. 5 (foll. by of) composed or made up of. --v.tr. 1 join or press firmly together. 2 condense. 3 (usu. foll. by of) compose; make up. --n. 1 a small, flat, usu. decorated, case for face-powder, a mirror, etc. 2 an object formed by compacting powder. 3 US a medium-sized motor car. Phrases and idioms compact disc a disc on which information or sound is recorded digitally and reproduced by reflection of laser light. Derivatives compaction n. compactly adv. compactness n. compactor n. Etymology: ME f. L compingere compact- (as COM-, pangere fasten) 2. n. an agreement or contract between two or more parties. Etymology: L compactum f. compacisci compact- (as COM-, pacisci covenant): cf. PACT
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I. adjective see: pact Date: 14th century predominantly formed or filled ; composed, made, 2. having a dense structure or parts or units closely packed or joined , not diffuse or verbose , occupying a small volume by reason of efficient use of space , short-bodied, solid, and without excess flesh, being a topological space and especially a metric space with the property that for any collection of open sets which contains it there is a subset of the collection with a finite number of elements which also contains it, ~ly adverb ~ness noun II. verb Date: 15th century transitive verb to make up by connecting or combining ; compose, 2. to knit or draw together ; combine, to press together ; compress, intransitive verb to become ~ed, ~ible adjective ~or also ~er noun III. noun Date: 1601 something that is ~ or ~ed:, a small cosmetic case (as for compressed powder), an automobile smaller than an intermediate but larger than a sub~, IV. noun see: pact Date: 1591 an agreement or covenant between two or more parties ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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