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Meanings of compactly in English

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sucintamente

With concise and precise brevity; to the point.

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        Usage of compactly in English
        1
        Small pictures are most effective in groups, hung somewhat irregularly and compactly.
        The Complete Home
        2
        She always hit the ground very firmly and compactly as she walked.
        Three Lives / Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle...
        3
        Standing over the compactly-fastened swathing of clothes, Laddie bent down and sniffed.
        Further Adventures of Lad
        4
        He wore a jet-black beard that grew close and dropped compactly down.
        Laramie Holds the Range
        5
        A man of middle height, squarely and compactly built, he moves easily.
        Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front
        6
        And shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them.
        Leaves of Grass
        7
        Information can be stored even more compactly than in molecular memory.
        Blood music
        8
        It was compactly built, it was very old and it looked its centuries.
        Rainbow's End
        9
        The first one we came to was a large one, and compactly built.
        Three Times and Out / Told by Private Simmons, Written by Nellie...
        10
        This was no fault of Trampas's; but they were following him less compactly.
        The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
        11
        From the station Trampas now came back, his herd following him less compactly.
        The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
        12
        We feel as if we were closely and compactly put together.
        The Principles of Aesthetics
        13
        Soon a mass of silent but heart-heaving humanity was crowded compactly before him.
        International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science -...
        14
        Bangalore as a city is not at all compactly built together.
        From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
        15
        He seemed to gather his whole powerful frame compactly together, and shot forward.
        The Guns of Bull Run: A Story of the Civil War's Eve
        16
        He was not tall, but he was strongly and compactly built.
        Graustark
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        Compactly through the time
        Compactly across language varieties
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