Close in texture or composition; compact; firm; dense; condensated. [ See Dense , which is generally used.]
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. To become close or more compact, as the particles of a body; to approach or unite more closely; to grow thick.
2. Vapors condense and coalesce into small parcels.
1. To make more close, thick or compact; to cause the particles of a body to approach, or to unite more closely, either by their own attraction or affinity, or by mechanical force. Thus, vapor is said to be condensed into water by the application of cold; and air is condensed in a tube by pressure. Hence the word is sometimes equivalent to compress.
2. To make thick; to inspissate; applied to soft compressible substances.
3. To compress into a smaller compass, or into a close body; to crowd; applied to separate individuals. Thus we say to condense ideas into a smaller compass.
1. To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form.
2. To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products.
3. To undergo polymerization.
1. To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.
2. To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water.
Made dense, or more close in parts; made or become compact; compressed into a narrower compass.
1. One who, or that which, condenses.
2. An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting of a cylinder having a movable piston to force the air into a receiver, and a valve to prevent its escape.
3. An instrument for concentrating electricity by the effect of induction between conducting plates separated by a nonconducting plate.
4. A lens or mirror, usually of short focal distance, used to concentrate light upon an object.
5. An apparatus for receiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling.
6. An apparatus, separate from the cylinder, in which the exhaust steam is condensed by the action of cold water or air. See Illust. of Steam engine.
Contraction Roget’s Thesaurus §195
N. contraction, reduction, diminution, decrease of size, defalcation, decrement, lessening, shrinking, compaction, tabes, collapse, emaciation, attenuation, tabefaction, consumption, marasmus, atrophy, systole, neck, hourglass, condensation, compression, compactness, compendium, squeezing, strangulation, corrugation, astringency, astringents, sclerotics, contractility, compressibility, coarctation, inferiority in size
V. become small, become smaller, lessen, decrease, grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb, decay, be smaller than, fall short of, not come up to, render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate, boil down, constrict, constringe, condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow, pinch, tighten, strangle, cramp, dwarf, bedwarf, shorten, circumscribe, restrain, abrade, pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, file down, grind, grind down, chip, shave, shear, wear down
Adj. contracting, astringent, shrunk, contracted, strangulated, tabid, wizened, stunted, waning, neap, compact, unexpanded &c. (expand ), contractile, compressible, smaller &c. (small )
Density Roget’s Thesaurus §321
N. density, solidity, solidness, impenetrability, impermeability, incompressibility, imporosity, cohesion, constipation, consistence, spissitude|, specific gravity, hydrometer, areometer, condensation, caseation, solidation, solidification, consolidation, concretion, coagulation, petrification, crystallization, precipitation, deposit, precipitate, inspissation, gelation, thickening, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, insolubility, indissolvableness, solid body, mass, block, knot, lump, concretion, concrete, conglomerate, cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum, bone, gristle, cartilage, casein, crassamentum|, legumin, superdense matter, condensed states of matter, dwarf star, neutron star
V. be dense, become solid, render solid, solidify, solidate, concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate, curd, curdle, lopper, fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere, crystallize, petrify, condense, thicken, gel, inspissate, incrassate, compress, squeeze, ram down, constipate
Adj. dense, solid, solidified, caseous, pukka, coherent, cohesive, compact, close, serried, thickset, substantial, massive, lumpish, impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous, incompressible, constipated, concrete, knotted, knotty, gnarled, crystalline, crystallizable, thick, grumous|, stuffy, undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed, indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible
Fluidity Roget’s Thesaurus §333
Liquefaction Roget’s Thesaurus §335
N. liquefaction, liquescence, liquescency, melting, colliquation|, colliquefaction|, thaw, liquation|, deliquation|, deliquescence, lixiviation, dissolution, solution, apozem, lixivium, infusion, flux, solvent, menstruum, alkahest
V. render liquid, liquefy, run, deliquesce, melt, solve, dissolve, resolve, liquate|, hold in solution, condense, precipitate, rain
Conciseness Roget’s Thesaurus §572
N. conciseness, brevity, "the soul of wit", laconism, tacitus, ellipsis, syncope, abridgment, compression, epitome, monostich, brunch word, portmanteau word
V. be concise, condense, abridge, abstract, come to the point
Adj. concise, brief, short, terse, close, to the point, exact, neat, compact, compressed, condensed, pointed, laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary, pregnant, compendious, succinct, elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp, sententious
Adv. concisely, briefly, summarily, in brief, in short, in a word, in a few words, for shortness sake, to come to the point, to make a long story short, to cut the matter short, to be brief, it comes to this, the long and the short of it is
Phr. brevis esse laboro obscurus fio
Compendium Roget’s Thesaurus §596
N. compend, compendium, abstract, precis, epitome, multum in parvo, analysis, pandect, digest, sum and substance, brief, abridgment, summary, apercu, draft, minute, note, excerpt, synopsis, textbook, conspectus, outlines, syllabus, contents, heads, prospectus, album, scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book, extracts, excerpta, cuttings, fugitive pieces, fugitive writing, spicilegium, flowers, anthology, collectanea, analecta, compilation, recapitulation, resume, review, abbreviation, abbreviature, contraction, shortening, compression
V. abridge, abstract, epitomize, summarize, make an abstract, prepare an abstract, draw an abstract, compile an abstract, recapitulate, review, skim, run over, sum up, abbreviate, condense, compile
Adv. in short, in epitome, in substance, in few words
Phr. it lies in a nutshell
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