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| agreement |
a legally binding contract, compact, or covenant, or the document that represents it. [1/5 definitions] |
| bind |
to become compact or cohesive. [1/13 definitions] |
| button tree |
a West Indian tree or shrub that bears hard, button-shaped fruit and yields heavy, compact wood. |
| cassette |
a compact case for film, or audio or video tape, used to facilitate leading a camera or recorder. |
| CD1 |
abbreviation of "compact disk," a palm-sized disk on which music, data, or the like has been digitally encoded, that is read by laser and transmitted to a playback device; optical disk. |
| chert |
a hard compact rock, esp. of quartz, found in limestone. |
| cocker spaniel |
a small spaniel characterized by a compact body, short legs, a soft wavy coat, and long drooping ears. |
| colewort |
any cabbage with leaves that do not form a compact head, such as kale. [1/2 definitions] |
| collapse |
to be constructed so as to become more compact by folding, as chairs or tables. [1/7 definitions] |
| condense |
to make smaller, denser, or more compact; compress; concentrate. [2/5 definitions] |
| convention |
an international agreement or compact, usu. one concerned with a particular subject or issue. [1/4 definitions] |
| cornet |
a brass wind instrument resembling a compact trumpet. [1/2 definitions] |
| digital versatile disc |
an optical storage format for digital data, resembling a compact disc but with greater storage capacity; digital video disc; DVD. |
| digital video disc |
an optical storage format for digital data, or the physical disc that the data is stored on, resembling a compact disc but with greater storage capacity; DVD. [1/2 definitions] |
| field glass |
(usu. pl.) a compact, portable binocular telescope used esp. outdoors. |
| firm1 |
hard and compact; solid. [1/6 definitions] |
| fold1 |
to make compact by bending upon itself numerous times. [1/16 definitions] |
| foldaway |
folding to a compact size for easy storage when not in use, as a cot, light table, or chair. |
| full2 |
of cloth, to become more compact as a result of a manufacturing process. [1/2 definitions] |
| hardwood |
any of several types of tree, such as the oak, cherry, or mahogany, that have broad leaves, bear seeds enclosed in an ovary, and yield dense, compact wood. [1/2 definitions] |
| head lettuce |
a variety of lettuce, such as iceberg, in which the leaves form a round compact ball. |
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