press
IPA: prˈɛs
noun
- An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
- (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
- (uncountable) A crowd.
- (countable) A printing machine.
- (uncountable, collective) The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
- (countable) A publisher.
- (countable, especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
- (countable, weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
- (countable, golf, gambling) An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager in value, but begins even at the time of the bet.
- (countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
- A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
- (psychology) In personology, any environmental factor that arouses a need in the individual.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
- (transitive, mechanics, electronics) To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.
- (transitive) To compress, squeeze.
- (transitive) To clasp, hold in an embrace.
- (transitive) To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
- (transitive, sewing) To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding, motion, so as to avoid disturbing adjacent areas.
- (transitive) To drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
- (transitive, obsolete) To weigh upon, oppress, trouble.
- (transitive) To force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly.
- To try to force (something upon someone).
- (transitive) To hasten, urge onward.
- (transitive) To urge, beseech, entreat.
- (transitive) To lay stress upon.
- (transitive, intransitive) To throng, crowd.
- (transitive, obsolete) To print.
- To force into service, particularly into naval service.
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Examples of "press" in Sentences
- A specialized type of hydraulic press is known as the ram press.
- Oh! the Lord help you not to draw back, but to press on, _press on, press on_, never minding the consequences.
- Try these outside the box techniques: close grip bench press floor bench press (elbows on the floor) pin press* board press*
- I did with the onions and scallions neither, barring by great luck they'd be in and under the press here -- (_running to look under the press_) -- which they are, praised be God! in the far corner.
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- McCain and Palin are laughing at the press -- and it's the press 'fault yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' McCain and Palin are laughing at the press -- and it\'s the press\ 'fault'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: The press throughout this race has walked away from any semblance of traditional standards, yet journalists seemed oblivious to the long-term implications of their chronic embrace of fluff.
- Thus, a vast concern is expressed for the liberty of the press, and the utmost abhorrence of its licentiousness: but then, by the licentiousness of the press is meant every disclosure by which any abuse is brought to light and exposed to shameby the liberty of the press is meant only publications from which no such inconvenience is to be apprehended; and the fallacy consists in employing the sham approbation of liberty as a mask for the real opposition to all free discussion.
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