compact — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. An agreement or contract.

   Synonyme

   agreementcontractpacttreaty

   Beispiele

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   President Biden laid out an ambitious agenda on Wednesday night to rewrite the American social compact by vastly expanding family leave, child care, health care, preschool and college education for millions of people to be financed with increased taxes on the wealthiest earners.

   After taking over this month as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, a nonpartisan coalition of city mayors, he urged members to sign a “crypto compact” calling on the federal government to eschew overly aggressive regulation of the industry.

   Countering this in international media by offering more balanced views for a global audience is near impossible as censorship is rife. There almost seems to be a global compact to control the narrative, a propaganda war powered by today’s digital technology.

Verb

1. To form an agreement or contract.

   Gebrauch

   • intransitiv

   Beispiele

   In return for the sovereign's protection, they compacted to police the content of public literature.

Adjektiv

1. Agreed, contracted.

   Gebrauch

   • archaisch
   • not-comparable

   Beispiele

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   O Gorice XI., most glorious King of Witchland, and O Lord Goldry Bluszco, captain of the hosts of Demonland, it is compact betwixt you, and made fast by mighty oaths whereof I, the Red Foliot, am keeper, that ye shall wrastle three falls together on these conditions, […]

Adjektiv

1. Closely packed or densely constituted; having much material in a small volume.

   Synonyme

   concentratedcrowdeddenseserried

   Beispiele

   glass, crystal, gems, and other compact bodies

2. Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.

   Beispiele

   a compact laptop computer

3. Brief and pithy; not verbose.

   Gebrauch

   • of prose

   Beispiele

   a compact discourse

4. Of a topological space: Such that every open cover has a finite subcover. In a metric space, this is equivalent to being sequentially compact. In metric spaces with the Heine-Borel property, this is equivalent to being closed and bounded.

   Gebrauch

   • not-comparable

   Synonyme

   quasi-compact

5. Of a topological space: Compact in the above sense and moreover Hausdorff.

   Gebrauch

   • not-comparable

6. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.

   Gebrauch

   • außer Gebrauch

   Beispiele

   Thou fooliſh Frier, and thou pernicious woman / Compact with her that's gone:

   a pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together

7. Composed or made; with of.

   Gebrauch

   • außer Gebrauch

   Beispiele

   A wandering fire, / Compact of unctuous vapor.

Substantiv

1. A slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powder puff, small enough to fit in a woman's purse, handbag, or pocket.

   Synonyme

   powder box

2. An automobile that is larger than a subcompact but smaller than an intermediate.

3. A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.

   Beispiele

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   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.

Verb

1. To make more dense; to compress.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

   Beispiele

   You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore.

2. To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.

   Beispiele

   The whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth.

Adjektiv

1. closely and firmly united or packed together

   Antonyme

   loose

   Beispiele

   compact soil

   compact clusters of flowers

2. having a short and solid form or stature

   Synonyme

   heavysetstockythickthickset

   Beispiele

   a wrestler of compact build

   he was tall and heavyset

   Weitere Beispiele (2)

   stocky legs

   a thickset young man

3. briefly giving the gist of something

   Synonyme

   compendioussuccinctsummary

   Beispiele

   a short and compendious book

   a compact style is brief and pithy

   Weitere Beispiele (2)

   succinct comparisons

   a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject

Substantiv

1. a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse

   Synonyme

   powder compact

   Oberbegriffe

   case

2. a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action

   Synonyme

   covenantconcordat

   Oberbegriffe

   written agreement

3. a small and economical car

   Synonyme

   compact car

   Oberbegriffe

   carautoautomobilemachinemotorcar

Verb

1. have the property of being packable or of compacting easily

   Synonyme

   pack

   Oberbegriffe

   be

   Beispiele

   This powder compacts easily

   Such odd-shaped items do not pack well

2. compress into a wad

   Synonyme

   packbundlewad

   Oberbegriffe

   arrangeset up

   Beispiele

   wad paper into the box

3. make more compact by or as if by pressing

   Synonyme

   compresspack together

   Oberbegriffe

   wedgesqueezeforce

   Beispiele

   compress the data

4. squeeze or press together

   Synonyme

   compressconstrictsqueezecontractpress

   Oberbegriffe

   tighten

   Beispiele

   she compressed her lips

   the spasm contracted the muscle