deplete

v : use up, as of resources or materials; "this car consumes a

lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run

through 20 bottles of wine a week" [syn: {consume}, {eat

up}, {use up}, {eat}, {exhaust}, {run through}, {wipe out}]

deflate

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}.

(1997-06-21)