Synonyms: compact, powder compact
Definition: a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse
Similar words: case
Definition: a portable container for carrying several objects
Usage: the musicians left their instrument cases backstage
Synonyms: compact, compact car
Definition: a small and economical car
Similar words: car, auto, automobile, motorcar, machine
Definition: a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
Usage: he needs a car to get to work
Synonyms: compact, concordat, covenant
Definition: a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
Similar words: written agreement
Definition: a legal document summarizing the agreement between parties
Synonyms: press, compact, compress, constrict, contract, squeeze
Definition: squeeze or press together
Usage: she compressed her lips; the spasm contracted the muscle
Synonyms: compact, compress, pack together
Definition: make more compact by or as if by pressing
Usage: compress the data
Similar words: force, wedge, squeeze
Definition: squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
Usage: I squeezed myself into the corner
Synonyms: wad, bundle, compact, pack
Definition: compress into a wad
Usage: wad paper into the box
Similar words: set up, arrange
Definition: put into a proper or systematic order
Usage: arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order
Definition: have the property of being packable or of compacting easily
Usage: This powder compacts easily; Such odd-shaped items do not pack well
Similar words: be
Definition: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
Usage: John is rich; This is not a good answer
Synonyms: compact
Definition: closely and firmly united or packed together
Usage: compact soil; compact clusters of flowers
Similar words: clayey, cloggy, heavy
Definition: (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
Usage: the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated
Similar words: close-packed
Definition: packed especially tightly
Similar words: consolidated
Definition: forming a solid mass
Similar words: wedged, impacted
Definition: wedged or packed in together
Usage: an impacted tooth
Similar words: packed
Definition: pressed together or compressed
Usage: packed snow
Similar words: serried
Definition: (especially of rows as of troops or mountains) pressed together
Usage: in serried ranks
Similar words: tight
Definition: packed closely together
Usage: they stood in a tight little group; hair in tight curls; the pub was packed tight
Synonyms: compact, compendious, succinct, summary
Definition: briefly giving the gist of something
Usage: a short and compendious book; a compact style is brief and pithy; succinct comparisons; a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject
Synonyms: compact, stocky, thick, thickset, heavyset
Definition: having a short and solid form or stature
Usage: a wrestler of compact build; he was tall and heavyset; stocky legs; a thickset young man
Definition: low in stature; not tall
Usage: he was short and stocky; short in stature; a short smokestack; a little man