Thesaurus / compressed
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It’s the middle one you want to choose for a more compressed video format when streaming over a cellular connection.
STOP YOUR STREAMING APPS FROM EATING ALL YOUR DATADAVID NIELDAUGUST 26, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEOne of these wood fuels that has been gaining popularity globally over the last decade is pellets made from compressed wood.
BURNING WOOD PELLETS WON’T HELP US FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGESHAENA MONTANARIMARCH 18, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEAt the height of the second wave, the data followed a corresponding, though more compressed, pattern.
COVID-19 DEATHS ARE LIKELY TO KEEP GETTING WORSE EVEN AFTER CASES PEAKJOE FOXNOVEMBER 23, 2020WASHINGTON POSTThe price difference can mean that even at its most compressed, vertical farming does not save much on one of farming’s major capital expenses.
INSIDE SINGAPORE’S HUGE BET ON VERTICAL FARMINGKATIE MCLEANOCTOBER 13, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWMany advertisers have spent the past several months operating on compressed schedules because they cannot do long-term planning, said Erik Requidan, the cofounder of the site monetization services consultancy Media Tradecraft.
‘NOT A LOT OF EXPERIMENTING GOING ON’: AD BUYERS CUT BACK ON AD FORMAT EXPERIMENTATIONMAX WILLENSSEPTEMBER 30, 2020DIGIDAYWhether the drills are worked by compressed air, or by hand in the old-fashioned way, the effect is the same.
ASBESTOSROBERT H. JONESShe stood regarding him a moment with lips compressed and a white, startled, angry face.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIHis brow was calm, but his mouth closely compressed, as if to sustain some firm resolve.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTTArnold looked at her for a single comprehending instant, a pitying instant, then his lips compressed tightly as he turned away.
WE'RE FRIENDS, NOWHENRY HASSESometimes the whole history is compressed into one crowded scene, as in the following example.
THE CATACOMBS OF ROMEWILLIAM HENRY WITHROWWORDS RELATED TO COMPRESSED
- attenuated
- circumscribed
- close
- compressed
- confining
- constricted
- contracted
- cramped
- definite
- determinate
- exclusive
- exiguous
- fine
- fixed
- incapacious
- limited
- linear
- meager
- near
- paltry
- pent
- pinched
- precarious
- precise
- scant
- scanty
- select
- set
- shrunken
- slender
- slim
- small
- spare
- strait
- taper
- tapered
- tapering
- thin
- threadlike
- tight
- attenuated
- circumscribed
- close
- compressed
- confining
- constricted
- contracted
- cramped
- definite
- determinate
- exclusive
- exiguous
- fine
- fixed
- incapacious
- limited
- linear
- meager
- near
- paltry
- pent
- pinched
- precarious
- precise
- scant
- scanty
- select
- set
- shrunken
- slender
- slim
- small
- spare
- strait
- taper
- tapered
- tapering
- thin
- threadlike
- tight
- arranged
- awash
- brimful
- brimming
- bundled
- chock
- chock-full
- compact
- compressed
- congested
- consigned
- crammed
- crowded
- filled
- full to the gills
- jam-packed
- jammed
- loaded
- mobbed
- overflowing
- overloaded
- packed like sardines
- seething
- serried
- stuffed
- swarming
- to the roof
- tumid
- up to the hilt
- up to the rafters
- wall-to-wall
- wrapped
- abbreviated
- aphoristic
- bare
- boiled down
- breviloquent
- brief
- compendiary
- compendious
- compressed
- concise
- condensed
- crisp
- curtailed
- curtate
- cut short
- cut to the bone
- decreased
- decurtate
- diminished
- epigrammatic
- fleeting
- in a nutshell
- laconic
- lessened
- little
- momentary
- not protracted
- pithy
- precise
- sententious
- short and sweet
- short-term
- shortened
- succinct
- summarized
- summary
- terse
- undersized
- unprolonged
- unsustained
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