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compact English

Meaning compact meaning

What does compact mean?
Definitions in simple English

compact Noun

— A compact is an agreement or contract. — A compact is a small container with a folding mirror that contains powder and is used by women.

compact Adjective

— If something is compact, it is packed into a tight space. — If something is compact, all of the needed features of something fits in a small space.

compact Verb

— If something is compacted, it is made smaller; it is compressed.

compact

— adjective closely and firmly united or packed together compact soil compact clusters of flowers — noun a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse — adjective (= heavyset, stocky, thickset) having a short and solid form or stature a wrestler of compact build he was tall and heavyset stocky legs a thickset young man — noun a small and economical car — verb (= pack) have the property of being packable or of compacting easily This powder compacts easily Such odd-shaped items do not pack well — verb (= compress) make more compact by or as if by pressing compress the data — adjective (= compendious, succinct, summary) briefly giving the gist of something a short and compendious book a compact style is brief and pithy succinct comparisons a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject — noun (= covenant) a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action — verb (= compress, squeeze, contract, press) squeeze or press together she compressed her lips the spasm contracted the muscle — verb (= wad) compress into a wad wad paper into the box

Synonyms compact synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as compact?

compact English » English

dense contract close covenant agreement solid thick compress tight small pact compressed condense pack concordat concise treaty firm crowded squeeze hard thickset stipulation press powder compact constrict condensed concentrate compact car arrangement accord wad terse summary succinct stocky serried promise pressed pithy packed pack together of small bulk miniature intimate indenture heavyset heavy deal crowd

Topics compact topics

What do people use compact to talk about?
States Big

Small
Social behavior Law

Legal contract
States Big Long

Short, not long
States Quality Made of, material

Dense
Language and thought Communication Mass communication

Recorded music

Conjugation compact conjugation

How do you conjugate compact?

compact · verb

Examples compact examples

How do I use compact in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The watch on the compact disk is mine.
I'd like to rent a compact car.
She gave me this compact disc.
The mirror on a compact I got from a friend has cracked.
I want a compact car with an air conditioner.
Now we look compact and comfortable, as the father said ven he cut his little boy's head off, to cure him o' squintin'.
Compact washing machines are expensive for their size.

Movie subtitles

Give me that compact, Henry.
Quick, quick, the compact!
A parachute. The most compact in the world.
Take for instance this compact.
Kind of compact too, like a submarine.
She was built for speed, but like I said, kid kind of compact too, like a submarine.
Compact little layout, isn't it?
The stolen piece was a compact Colt revolver, pinched right after firing practice.
Compact, but ample enough.
I hope the king made peace with all of us. and the compact is firm and true in me.
It must have been compact enough to stuff into one's pockets.
Better to remain compact.
Their supply lines grow longer as our units grow more ready and compact.
It's amazing how compact everything is.
The most compact in the world.
Take for instance this compact. Yesterday you couldn't get it for a penny less than 3.90.
Has she got a compact?
A compact.
Oh, a compact.
My staff is small, compact, efficient. Runs like clockwork.
There's English vocab, a compact, lipstick..
It's jolly compact, isn't it?
I admit he's small, but he's very compact and extremely strong.
Look in my compact.
Miss Marple, the compact. If the murderer should know that you have it.
I suppose you knew about this compact business? - Well, I. - Before I did, no doubt?
A compact that cost three bucks tops, a torn hem on your skirt. a matchfolder that says you eat at a cheap cafeteria. and you weren't waiting for anybody but me.
Pardon me. But you know, it's pretty compact.
Compact, but, uh. ample enough.
I hope the king made peace with all of us. and the compact is firm and true in me. And so in me.
I should have said our community is becoming more compact.
He said he had an inside track with the army. He said that if I could devise a very small, very compact detonating gismo, he'd get me a government contract, and I believed him.
Very compact and very neat, sir, if I may say. Yes.
Did not know that Welcomes the compact fist.
The flesh and brain and what you call the personality, distilled down into these compact shapes.
How compact your bodies are.
Compact.

News and current affairs

This week, world leaders have an opportunity to steer developments onto a new and more hopeful path when they meet in London to forge a new compact with Afghanistan.
The compact builds on the 2001 Bonn Agreement, which laid the framework for a democratic Afghanistan but left much to be done to overcome that war-torn country's tragic legacy.
The G-20's growth compact must be a jobs compact, too.
One possible vehicle for accomplishing this is the independent councils that the EU's so-called fiscal compact has now made mandatory for every country in the eurozone.
Fiscal councils should not be put in the position of trying to interpret the letter of the fiscal compact.
The effective renunciation of the fiscal compact by Valls and Renzi suggests that these ratios will rise even further in the coming years.
For Europe's leaders, the withdrawal by France and Italy from the fiscal compact should serve as a clear sign that the mutualization model is not working for the eurozone, either.
Perhaps even the fiscal compact itself should be reconsidered.
The revamped growth compact would more effectively allocate European resources and increase the flexibility of permanent transfers from rich to poor countries - provided that the money is used for productive investment.
The destruction of the mosque thus felt like an utter betrayal of the compact that had sustained the Muslim community as a vital part of India's pluralist democracy.
The current crisis has exposed the original lacunae and widening cracks in the compact between Europe's citizens and EU institutions, between Europe's north and south, and between its peoples and its elites.
First, it is argued that action of this sort would violate the requirements of the EU's fiscal compact.
To be realistic, the current fiscal compact governing the eurozone must be taken as the starting point.
The Millennium Declaration was meant to be a compact between the world's rich and poor countries.
First, a new global compact should focus more directly on rich countries' responsibilities.
If this is the essence of the fiscal compact that is eventually agreed, it will have no predictable effect on eurozone countries' behavior.
The EU's fiscal compact, whatever its final form, will be little more than a sideshow.
A new fiscal compact - and new governments in Greece, Italy, and Spain - spurred hope of credible commitment to austerity and structural reform.
And now, thanks to the fiscal compact, even the eurozone's core will be forced into front-loaded recessionary austerity.
France may elect a president who opposes the fiscal compact and whose policies may scare the bond markets.
Irish voters may reject the fiscal compact in a referendum.
Indeed, she had no choice but to concede and agree to far-reaching changes to the EU's new fiscal compact that will ease refinancing of the crisis countries and their banks.
The fiscal compact had been reduced to a shambles even before Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, approved it later that day.
The European Union, for example, has been light on assisting the development of the rule of law, good policing, and representative institutions in the Arab world, despite a development and political compact with its governments.

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