The difference between Compress and Pack

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 pack means a bundle made up and prepared to be carried.

When used as verbs, compress means to make smaller, whereas pack means to make a pack of.

check bellow for the other definitions of Compress and Pack

  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:

    "rfquotek Alexander Pope"

  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. Pack as a noun:

    A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale

    Examples:

    "The horses carried the packs across the plain."

  2. Pack as a noun:

    A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack

  3. Pack as a noun:

    a multitude.

    Examples:

    "a pack of lies"

    "a pack of complaints"

  4. Pack as a noun:

    A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.

  5. Pack as a noun:

    A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game

    Examples:

    "We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack."

  6. Pack as a noun:

    A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.

  7. Pack as a noun:

    A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.

  8. Pack as a noun:

    A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.

    Examples:

    "a pack of thieves or knaves"

  9. Pack as a noun:

    A group of Cub Scouts.

  10. Pack as a noun:

    A shook of cask staves.

  11. Pack as a noun:

    A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.

  12. Pack as a noun:

    A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.

    Examples:

    "The ship had to sail round the pack of ice."

  13. Pack as a noun (medicine):

    An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.

  14. Pack as a noun (slang):

    A loose, lewd, or worthless person.

  15. Pack as a noun (snooker, pool):

    A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.

  16. Pack as a noun (rugby):

    The team on the field.

  1. Pack as a verb (physical):

    To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass. To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into. To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam. To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation. To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass. To gather in flocks or schools. To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.

    Examples:

    "to pack goods in a box;  to pack fish"

    "to pack a trunk;  the play, or the audience, packs the theater"

    "The doctor gave Kelly some sulfa pills and packed his arm in hot-water bags."

    "to pack a joint;  to pack the piston of a steam engine;  pack someone's arm with ice."

    "the goods pack conveniently;  wet snow packs well"

    "the grouse or the perch begin to pack'"

  2. Pack as a verb (social):

    To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly. To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly. To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result. To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot. To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.

    Examples:

    "to pack a jury"

  3. Pack as a verb (transitive):

    To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.

    Examples:

    "to pack a horse"

  4. Pack as a verb (transitive):

    To move, send or carry. To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off. To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or animals). To depart in haste; – generally with off or away. To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.

    Examples:

    "to pack a boy off to school"

  5. Pack as a verb (transitive, sports, slang):

    To block a shot, especially in basketball.

  6. Pack as a verb (intransitive, LGBT, _, slang, of a [[drag king]], [[transman]], etc.):

    To wear a prosthetic penis inside one's trousers for better verisimilitude.

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