Difference between Shorten and Compress

SHORTEN vs COMPRESS: NOUN

A cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever)
A soft pad of gauze or other material applied with pressure to a part of the body to control hemorrhage or to supply heat, cold, moisture, or medication to alleviate pain or reduce infection.
A machine for compressing material.
In surgery, a soft mass formed of tow, lint, or soft linen cloth, so contrived as by the aid of a bandage to make due pressure on any part.
A machine for compressing
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.
An apparatus in which bales of cotton, etc., are pressed into the smallest possible compass for stowage.
In hydropathic practice, a wet cloth applied to the surface of a diseased part, and covered with a layer or bandage of dry cloth or oiled cloth.

Squeeze or press together
Make more compact by or as if by pressing
To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
To condense into a more economic, easier format.
To abridge.
(transitive) To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.

To become short or shorter.
To take in (a sail) so that less canvas is exposed to the wind, thereby reducing speed.
To add shortening to (dough) so as to make flaky.
To reduce in force, efficacy, or intensity.
To make short or shorter.

To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time
To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract
To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
To take in the slack of it.
To reduce sail by taking it in.

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.
To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense.
To encode (data) to minimize the space required for storage or transmittal.
To press together.

To pronounce or measure as short: as, to shorten a vowel or syllable.
To make short or friable, as pastry with butter or lard.
To cause to come short or fail.
To deprive.
To check; confine; restrain.
To take in; contract; lessen in extent or amount: as, to shorten sail; to shorten an allowance.
Figuratively, to make inefficient or incapable. Compare short-armed.
To make appear short: as, pleasant companionship shortens a journey; a concave mirror shortens the face.
To make short or shorter; abridge; curtail: as, to shorten hours of work; to shorten the skirt of a dress.
To come short; fail.
To become short or shorter; contract; diminish in length: as, ropes shorten when wet.
To make anything short: used with in in the nautical phrase to shorten in on the cable, to heave in short or shorter.

To press or pack together; force or drive into a smaller compass or closer relation; condense.
To embrace sexually.
Synonyms To crowd, squeeze.

Interrupt, Lessen, Expedite, Improve, Streamline, Accelerate, Bowdlerize, Bowdlerise, Expurgate, Contract, Abridge, Foreshorten, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce

Cut, Zip, Format, Reduce, Shrink, Shorten, Compressive, Condense, Compression, Contract, Pack together, Press, Compact, Squeeze, Constrict

Minimize, Reducing, Interrupt, Lessen, Expedite, Improve, Streamline, Accelerate, Expurgate, Contract, Abridge, Foreshorten, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce

Sponge, Cut, Zip, Format, Reduce, Shrink, Shorten, Compressive, Condense, Compression, Contract, Press, Compact, Squeeze, Constrict

If you want to compress the archived files, you can instruct tar to invoke the gzip utility to compress them.
Instant Cold compress: Instant cold compress temporarily relieves minor pain and swelling for sprains, aches and sore joints.
If you need to compress image, please check How to compress image using python.
The codecs normally used to compress a voice stream in DSPs are designed to compress and decompress human speech, not fax or modem tones.
To compress the image, click the Compress Pictures icon in the Format Ribbon.
Compress old files Windows can compress files that you have not used in a while.
COMPRESS IMG CYBORG NEW Compress JPG, PNG, WEBP, SVG or GIF with the best quality and compression.
It is currently addressed only partially by unstandardized commands like XZVER, XZHDR, XFEATURE COMPRESS, or MODE COMPRESS.
Linux distributions generally include a compress workalike forcompatibility, although gunzip can unarchive files treated with compress.
This extension provides a new COMPRESS command and has the capability label COMPRESS.

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