Literary notes about Condense (AI summary)
The term "condense" is employed in literature with a rich diversity of meanings, ranging from physical transformation to intellectual compression. In some texts, it signifies a unification or grouping, as when Burgess and Park describe a group collecting itself into unity [1] or when Homer portrays warriors as condensing their powers in anticipation of war [2, 3]. In classical works such as Plato’s Timaeus, condensation plays a role in explaining natural processes—the transformation of elements like fire into air [4]—while Jules Verne and Poe evoke physical change by describing mist condensing into snow [5] or the labor of compressing air to sustain life [6, 7]. Beyond these physical or natural phenomena, authors like Dale Carnegie and Plutarch use the term metaphorically to denote the process of abridging or summarizing ideas [8, 9, 10, 11]. This versatile use underscores how "condense" bridges the tangible and the abstract, serving as a metaphor for both the merging of forces in nature and the distillation of thought in literary expression.
- Moreover the opposition to this unified controlling power compels the group to collect itself, to condense itself into unity.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - They stand to arms: the Greeks their onset dare, Condense their powers, and wait the coming war.
— from The Iliad by Homer - They turn, they stand; the Greeks their fury dare, Condense their powers, and wait the growing war.
— from The Iliad by Homer - On the other hand, when condensed, two volumes of fire make a volume of air; and two and a half parts of air condense into one of water.
— from Timaeus by Plato - And soon this mist began to condense into snow.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - It now required long and excessive labor to condense within the chamber sufficient atmospheric air for the sustenance of life.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe - It now required long and excessive labor to condense within the chamber sufficient atmospheric air for the sustenance of life.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - Make your notes as full as you please in preparation, but by all means condense them for platform use.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein - 53 All that is said here about the milk, the menses, and the blood, I have been obliged somewhat to condense and paraphrase.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch - 131 Like Reiske we condense here a little.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch - But I am compelled, by the fixed period of adjournment (10 a.m. ), to [Pg 252] cut short my argument, as I have been already compelled to condense it.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I