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compact
Part of speech: NounAn agreement, as between persons or states; a plot or conspiracy.
Part of speech: VerbTo press or pack closely; make solid.
Part of speech: AdjectiveClosely or firmly united; knit or pressed together; as, a compact mass.
Part of speech: AdverbCompactly.
Part of speech: Noun Usage examples "compact":- Mollie was faithful to her compact, and did not write for three whole weeks. - "Lover or Friend", Rosa Nouchette Carey.
- Beric had led his own band of two hundred trained men against the point where the wall of the camp touched the river, and as soon as they were over formed them up and led them in a compact body against the Romans. - "Beric the Briton A Story of the Roman Invasion", G. A. Henty.
- It is the compact on which society is formed that makes both. - "The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)", Edmund Burke.