Zip vs. Compress
Zipnoun
The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
Zipnoun
(informal) Energy; vigor; vim.
Zipnoun
A zip fastener.
Zipnoun
(slang) Zero; nothing.
Zipnoun
A trip on a zipline.
Zipnoun
A zip file.
Zipnoun
(programming) type of mapping function
Zipnoun
(slang) An ounce of marijuana.
Zipnoun
(US) A ZIP code; a US postal code.
Zipnoun
Any postal code, for any country.
Zippronoun
(slang) Zero; nothing.
Zipinterjection
The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
Zipverb
(transitive) To close with a zip fastener.
Zipverb
To close as if with a zip fastener.
Zipverb
To compress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file, especially one in the ZIP format.
Zipverb
To subject to the convolution mapping function.
Zipverb
(intransitive) (followed by a preposition) To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified place) with a high-pitched sound.
Zipverb
(followed by a preposition) To move in haste (in a specified direction or to a specified place).
Zipverb
(transitive) To make (something) move quickly
Zipverb
To travel on a zipline.
Zipnoun
A hissing or sibilant sound such as that made by a flying bullet.
Zipverb
To make, or move with, such a sound.
Zipnoun
a quantity of no importance;
Zipnoun
a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab
Zipverb
close with a zipper;
Zipverb
move very fast;
Compressverb
(transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
Compressverb
(intransitive) To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
Compressverb
(transitive) To condense into a more economic, easier format.
Compressverb
(transitive) To abridge.
Compressverb
To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
Compressverb
(obsolete) To embrace sexually.
Compressnoun
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.
Compressnoun
A machine for compressing
Compressverb
To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water.
Compressverb
To embrace sexually.
Compressverb
to reduce the space required for storage (of binary data) by an algorithm which converts the data to a smaller number of bits while preserving the information content. The compressed data is usually decompressed to recover the initial data format before subsequent use.
Compressnoun
A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.
Compressnoun
a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever)
Compressverb
make more compact by or as if by pressing;
Compressverb
squeeze or press together;
Compress
compress is a Unix shell compression program based on the LZW compression algorithm. Compared to more modern compression utilities such as gzip and bzip2, compress performs faster and with less memory usage, at the cost of a significantly lower compression ratio.
