The difference between Compress and Contract

When used as nouns, compress means 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, whereas contract means an agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.

When used as verbs, compress means to make smaller, whereas contract means to draw together or nearer.

Contract is also adjective with the meaning: contracted.

check bellow for the other definitions of Compress and Contract

  1. Compress as a verb (transitive):

    To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.

    Examples:

    "The force required to compress a spring varies linearly with the displacement."

  2. Compress as a verb (intransitive):

    To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.

    Examples:

    "Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel"

  3. Compress as a verb (transitive):

    To condense into a more economic, easier format.

    Examples:

    "This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram."

  4. Compress as a verb (transitive):

    To abridge.

    Examples:

    "If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information."

  5. Compress as a verb (technology, transitive):

    To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.

  6. Compress as a verb (obsolete):

    To embrace sexually.

    Examples:

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  1. Compress as a noun:

    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.

    Examples:

    "He held a cold compress over the sprain."

  2. Compress as a noun:

    A machine for compressing

  1. Contract as a noun:

    An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.

    Examples:

    "Marriage is a contract."

  2. Contract as a noun (legal):

    An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.

  3. Contract as a noun (legal):

    A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.

  4. Contract as a noun (informal):

    An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.

    Examples:

    "The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him."

  5. Contract as a noun (bridge):

    The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.

  1. Contract as an adjective (obsolete):

    Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

    Examples:

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  2. Contract as an adjective (obsolete):

    Not abstract; concrete.

  1. Contract as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.

    Examples:

    "The snail's body contracted into its shell."

    "to contract one's sphere of action"

  2. Contract as a verb (grammar):

    To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

    Examples:

    "The word "cannot" is often contracted into "can't"."

  3. Contract as a verb (transitive):

    To enter into a contract with.

  4. Contract as a verb (transitive):

    To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.

  5. Contract as a verb (intransitive):

    To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.

    Examples:

    "to contract for carrying the mail"

  6. Contract as a verb (transitive):

    To bring on; to incur; to acquire.

    Examples:

    "She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens."

    "to contract a debt"

  7. Contract as a verb (transitive):

    To gain or acquire (an illness).

  8. Contract as a verb:

    To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.

  9. Contract as a verb:

    To betroth; to affiance.

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