The difference between Compress and Squash

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 squash means a sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.

When used as verbs, compress means to make smaller, whereas squash means to beat or press into pulp or a flat mass.

check bellow for the other definitions of Compress and Squash

  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. Squash as a noun (uncountable):

    A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.

  2. Squash as a noun (British):

    A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.

    Examples:

    "When I'm thirsty I drink squash; it tastes much nicer than plain water."

  3. Squash as a noun:

    A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.

    Examples:

    "It's a bit of a squash in this small room."

  4. Squash as a noun (obsolete, countable):

    Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.

  5. Squash as a noun (obsolete, countable, pejorative):

    Something unripe or soft.

  6. Squash as a noun (obsolete, countable):

    A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.

  7. Squash as a noun (slang, professional wrestling):

    An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.

  1. Squash as a verb (transitive):

    To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.

  2. Squash as a verb (transitive, intransitive):

    To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.

    Examples:

    "Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry."

    "We all managed to squash into Mum's tiny car."

  3. Squash as a verb (transitive):

    To suppress; to force into submission.

  1. Squash as a noun (botany, countable):

    A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind. Cucurbita maxima, including , , , and some varieties of pumpkins. (syn. ), . Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, , . Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.

  2. Squash as a noun (botany):

    Any other similar-looking plant of other genera. Lagenaria siceraria (syn. ), calabash, .

  3. Squash as a noun (culinary):

    The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.

    Examples:

    "We ate squash and green beans."

  1. Squash as a noun (obsolete, countable):

    Muskrat.

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