Compact
Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
Composed or made; -- with of.
Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense.
Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose; as, a compact discourse.
To thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; -- as the parts which compose a body.
To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract.
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Compact Quotations
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
William Shakespeare
The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch.
Jose Mourinho
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
John Buchan
Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
Epicurus
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
Epicurus
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
William Lloyd Garrison
Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.
William Falconer
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
Henrik Ibsen
As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
Theodore Bikel
Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
George Mason
Compact Translations
compact in Afrikaans is kompak
compact in Dutch is compact, dicht
compact in French is compact, compacter
compact in German is kompakt
compact in Italian is compatto
compact in Latin is foedus, adstringo
compact in Portuguese is estojo compacto
compact in Spanish is compacto, polvera de bolsillo
compact in Swedish is komprimera, dryg
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