John Lee Hancock

Every time you do a true story - and I've done a few - you have to look in the mirror and say, 'That's close enough. I'm comfortable with this.' You're always going to compress time; you're going to change the order of things. But I don't think you want to tell a big lie. You want to think that you're embracing the truth.

American Writer

Shawn Michaels

I enjoyed the theatrics and the physical demands of everything that went on in the ring. But I was, initially, a relatively shy kid. I think that's probably what attracted me to hunting is that it was such a polar opposite of the other, and it was that opportunity for peace and quiet and to decompress.

American Wrestler

Homer Hickam

A memoir is not an autobiography. It's a true story told as a novel, using techniques of novelization. The author is allowed to compress events, combine characters, change names, change the sequence of events, just as if he's writing a novel. But it's got to be true.

American Author

Cary Fukunaga

With 'Sin Nombre,' there are parts that I wish were longer. And with 'Jane Eyre' especially, there were parts that I had to compress that I thought it would have been really nice to spend more time with - to spend with the characters.

American Director

Brad Feld

Ultimately, the goal is to use acquisitions to compress time on product development and get people on the team, especially in senior roles, who can help build out areas of the company they have experience in.

American Businessman

Cecelia Ahern

We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode.

Irish Novelist

Atul Kulkarni

Playing a character is like compressing an entire life into a few lines - that isn't an easy task.

Indian Actor

Liz Cambage

I feel like my game has always been compressed and lowered because I'm taller, more passionate.

Australian Basketball Player

Sarah Brightman

Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.

English Musician

Harlan Howard

I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.

American Musician

Emphasizes the use of physical strength or mechanical power to reduce size.

Physical Force

Often used when packing or storing items tightly to conserve space.

Space Saving

The action usually requires effort or energy to push things together.

Implies Effort

In computing, it means making files smaller for efficient storage and faster transmission.

File Efficiency

Mostly used in technical fields like computing and information technology.

Technical Context

Compression in tech may lead to data loss or reduced quality, a trade-off for size.

Quality Trade-Off

Used to apply pressure on a body area, mostly for first-aid treatment.

Medical Aid

Can refer to a soothing application for comfort, often involving temperature.

Pain Relief

Although often a cloth, a compress can be other materials for pressing against the skin.

Not Always Fabric

 to solve a business problem in a compressed time frame. And what's interesting to me is that the teams that usually win are not the ones with the most experienced team members, but the ones with members who are open to learn, who are open to unlearn and who are open to helping each other navigate through the changing circumstances.

Be humble -- and other...

 about the icy islands. The life of an iceberg begins many thousands of years before it reaches the ocean. Unlike sea ice or pack ice, which form when the ocean freezes, glaciers are made of fresh water. For thousands of years, these glaciers build layer upon layer of ice, constantly compressing, moving, adding snow,

What's below the tip of...

 The pituitary tumor, as it grows, often starts to compress the visual nerves in your brain, with the result that people with acromegaly have either double vision or they are profoundly nearsighted. So when people have started to speculate about what might have been wrong with Goliath, they've said, "Wait a minute,

The unheard story of...

 this origami telescope. First we unfolded the solar panels. Then we unfold the transmitter antenna so we can talk back and forth. Then we unfold the panels that hold the great sunshade in place. This takes us actually two weeks in real life. You see it compressed here so we can show it to you.

How the James Webb Space...

 And they're not the only ones. There are gravitational wave detectors spread across the world. These L-shaped instruments have long arms, whose exact length is measured with lasers. If the length changes, it could be because gravitational waves are stretching and compressing the arms.

What are gravitational...

 sitting around idly tiny variations in the density of the universe eventually will grow to be all the structures we see around us those variations in density also set up cosmic sound waves as gravity compresses the photon gas and radiation pressure resists that these

The making of cosmic...

 day and also it will provide other kinds of structural integrity as well so it will help keep the urethra open during sex so preventing the tube through which sperm passes from kind of being compressed and collapsed while well sex

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 So, any air-filled spaces, like a rockfish's swim bladder, or human lungs, will compress as they descend deeper and expand as they ascend. After a fish bites a fisherman's hook and is quickly reeled up to the surface,

The effects of...

 Stars too would hurtle together and collide. Temperatures would rise as space would get tighter and tighter. The size of the universe would plummet until everything compressed into such a small space

Three ways the universe...

 with these other what he described as high energy compressed speech people and um and he said that the things that work they're not necessarily dramatic so he

Compress

To make a big thing into a smaller space, usually by using force.

Often appears as...

To reduce the information or data into a smaller size.

Often appears as...

Usage tips

A cloth that is tightly pressed onto a body part to stop bleeding or reduce pain.

Often appears as...

Physical Force

Space Saving

Implies Effort

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