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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

... advantage of a much more compact locomotive and the drawback of more expensive track equipment, due to the necessity of transmission wire, etc. It has the further disadvantages of uselessness outside the equipped haulage way and of the dangers of the live wire in low and ...

— Principles of Mining - Valuation, Organization and Administration • Herbert C. Hoover

... Whilst the king was on his way back to Paris, Conde hurried off to take up his quarters at Orleans, whither Coligny went promptly to join him. They signed, with the gentlemen who came to them from all parts, a compact of association "for the honor of God, for the liberty of the king, his brothers and the queen-mother, and for the maintenance of decrees;" and Conde, in writing to the Protestant princes of Germany to explain to them his conduct, took the ...

— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume IV. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

... agreeable than the climate. Winter lasts hardly two months. European grains and fruits grow here far better than in many parts of France. It is the Touraine and Beauce of Canada."[43] The white flag of the Bourbons floated over the compact little palisaded town, with its population of soldiers and fur-traders; and from the blockhouses which served as bastions, one saw on either hand the small solid dwellings of the habitants, ranged at intervals along the margin of the water; while at a little ...

— Montcalm and Wolfe • Francis Parkman

... made the compact. Then they sat and watched for well-dressed women; for women in whose faces there was strength of character and purpose; for girls whose very manner showed they were ladies; for men who honored the girls in whose company they were. Such fun as it was! Julia never knew the time to go ...

— Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens • Margaret White Eggleston

... Sometimes the soldiers attacked a comrade by mistake. Every moment crowds of people on either side were killed and wounded, many horses and elephants had their throats cut, and the blood shed covered the ground. The dust had disappeared; the combatants were seen struggling in masses so compact that neither party was able to retire ...

— Malayan Literature • Various Authors

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