| Pronunciation: | | di'fleyt
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| Matching Terms: | | deflate compression, deflate/inflate compression, deflated, deflation, deflationary, deflator
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- [v] become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air; "The balloons deflated"
- [v] reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices; "deflate the currency"
- [v] produce deflation in; "The new measures deflated the economy"
- [v] reduce or lessen the size or importance of; "The bad review of his work deflated his self-confidence"
- [v] release contained air or gas from; "deflate the air mattress"
- [v] collapse by releasing contained air or gas; "deflate a balloon"
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| | Synonyms: | | puncture |
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| | Antonyms: | | blow up, inflate |
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| | See Also: | | alter, bring down, change, collapse, cut, cut back, cut down, decrease, deprecate, depreciate, diminish, fall, lessen, reduce, release, trim, trim back, trim down, turn |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \De*flate"\, v. t. [Pref. de- down + L. flare, flatus to
blow.]
To reduce from an inflated condition.
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| Computing Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | A compression standard derived from lz77; it is reportedly used in zip, gzip, pkzip, and png, among others. Unlike lzw, deflate compression does not use patented compression algorithms. Used as a verb to mean to compress (not decompress!) a file which has been compressed using deflate compression. The opposite, inflate, means to decompress data which has been deflated. Deflate is described in rfc 1951. |
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| | See Also: | | compression, file format |
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| | Related Terms: | | abridge, beat down, belie, blow sky-high, blow up, break, cave, cave in, cheapen, collapse, compress, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut prices, damp, dampen, decline, decrease, deduct, depreciate, depress, devaluate, diminish, disarm, disconfirm, discredit, disgrace, disprove, dive, downgrade, embarrass, enchain, explode, expose, fall, fall in, fall in price, fold, fold up, gag, give way, hamstring, handcuff, hobble, hog-tie, humble, humiliate, implode, invalidate, jew down, knock out, lessen, let down, lower, manacle, mark down, mortify, muzzle, negate, negative, nose-dive, paralyze, pare, plummet, plunge, prostrate, prove the contrary, puncture, put out, put to shame, reduce, retrench, roll back, sag, scale down, shame, shave, shorten, show up, silence, simplify, slash, slump, step down, strangle, take from, throttle, trim, truss up, tune down, undercut |
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