press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: presses
Etymology: From Middle English presse (“throng, crowd, clothespress”), partially from Old English press (“clothespress”) (from Medieval Latin pressa) and from Old French presse (Modern French presse) from Old French presser (“to press”), from Latin pressāre, from pressus, past participle of premere (“to press”). Displaced native Middle English thring (“press, crowd, throng”) (from Old English þring (“a press, crowd, anything that presses or confines”)).
Senses: examples: text: Connecting to the service is almost idiot proof and takes just a few button presses.
ref: 2004 10, “Maximum PC”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 25:
text: a slaloming winger putting lumpen defenders on their backsides, or even a sneaky centre-forward, using his boundless energy to lead the press and force mistakes.
ref: 2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
examples: text: a flower press
glosses: A device used to apply pressure to an item.
examples: text: And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 19:3:
text: The press in the square grew. Something would happen now.
ref: 1962, Olivia Manning, The Spoilt City; republished as The Balkan Trilogy, 1990, →ISBN, page 327:
text: Imagine the press of humanity in a crowded Parisian brasserie, circa the era when Lagerfeld would have been patronizing such joints.
ref: 2015 March 10, Tim Banks, “Chanel Fall 2015 Ready-to-Wear Collection”, in Vogue:
glosses: A crowd.
examples: text: Stop the presses!
text: That books are pouring off the world’s presses at unprecedented rates is a fact often alluded to as a flood that is inundating libraries and the book trades.
ref: 1972, Carol A. Nemeyer, Scholarly Reprint Publishing in the United States, New York, N.Y.: R. R. Bowker Co., →ISBN, page 8:
synonyms: printing press
glosses: A printing machine.
examples: text: according to a member of the press
text: This article appeared in the press.
text: From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
ref: 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
glosses: The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
glosses: A publisher.
examples: text: Put the cups in the press.
text: Put the ironing in the linen press.
text: But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…].
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
raw_tags: in Ireland and Scotland
examples: text: This is the fourth set of benchpresses. There will be five more; then there will be five sets of presses on an inclined bench[…].
ref: 1974, Charles Gaines, George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 22:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
examples: text: He can even the match with a press.
text: The way a press works is, say you're two down after six holes; you can then start another bet (in effect another match) from the seventh hole, for the same amount, starting all square on the seventh tee.
ref: 2012, Gary McCord, Golf For Dummies:
text: When a side is two or more points down in the match, they may request a press.
ref: 2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Sports Betting, page 181:
topics: gambling
games
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: 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.
examples: text: I would like some Concord press with my meal tonight.
glosses: Pure, unfermented grape juice.
examples: text: I have misused the king's press.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
synonyms: press-gang
glosses: A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
examples: text: The environmental comfort category is illustrative of cases in which there are low environmental presses matched against a number of personal competences.
ref: 2009, Allison E. Smith, Ageing in Urban Neighbourhoods, page 88:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: In personology, any environmental factor that arouses a need in the individual.
Synonyms: sense: storage space
word: closet
sense: storage space
word: cupboard
sense: storage space
word: pantry
Derived terms: all-court press
alternative press
amateur press association
any press is good press
arming press
bad press
bench press
bench-press
body press
brake press
Bramah press
chest press
cider press
close for press
clothes press
clothes-press
cookie press
copying press
digital press
drill press
drop press
duck press
fly press
freedom of the press
free press
French press
fruit press
full-court press
full court press
gang press
garlic press
good press
go to press
gutter press
hand press
hot from the press
hot press
hydraulic press
key press
leg press
long-press
mating press
military press
monkey press
mosquito press
overhead press
Pallof press
perfecting press
permanent press
pill press
plate press
press agency
press agent
press avail
press availability
press box
press brake
press button
press cake
press card
press conference
press corps
press cutting
press gaggle
press gallery
press gang
press junket
press kit
press-mark
press money
press office
press officer
press-on
press pack
press pass
press pool
press pot
press proof
press relations
press release
press revise
press roll
press run
press secretary
press time
press-up
press wheel
printed press
punch press
read for press
rolling press
rotary press
rotary printing press
run of press
science by press release
screw press
shoulder press
silk press
small press
stop press
stop the presses
there is no such thing as bad press
trade press
trouser press
turtle-press
vanity press
wheel press
yellow press