press
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: presses
form: pressing
form: pressed
form: pressed
form: prest
form: prest
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form: glossary
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form: pressest
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Etymology: From Middle English pressen (“to crowd, thring, press”), from Old French presser (“to press”) (Modern French presser) from Latin pressāre, from pressus, past participle of premere "to press". Displaced native Middle English thringen (“to press, crowd, throng”) (from Old English þringan (“to press, crowd”)), Middle English thrasten (“to press, force, urge”) (from Old English þrǣstan (“to press, force”)), Old English þryscan (“to press”), Old English þȳwan (“to press, impress”).
Senses: glosses: To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: strike
hit
depress
glosses: To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.
examples: text: to press fruit for the purpose of extracting the juice
synonyms: word: thring
word: thrutch
word: astringe
word: compact
word: compactify
word: condense
word: densitize
word: pack
word: press
word: mash
word: scrunch
word: smush
word: squoosh
word: squash
word: squish
word: squeeze
word: thring
word: thrutch
glosses: To compress, squeeze.
examples: text: With tears and ſmiles ſhe took her ſon, and preſs'd / Th' illuſtrious infant to her fragrant breaſt.
ref: a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache. From the Sixth Book of the Iliad.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 456:
synonyms: hug
glosses: To clasp, hold in an embrace.
examples: text: to press cloth with a clothes-iron
text: to press a hat
glosses: To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: 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.
examples: text: to press a crowd back
synonyms: thring
thrutch
glosses: To drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
examples: text: He turns from us; / Alas, he weeps too! Something presses him / He would reveal, but dare not. Sir, be comforted.
ref: c. 1621, John Fletcher, The Pilgrim, act I, scene ii:
glosses: To weigh upon, oppress, trouble.
examples: text: The two gentlemen who conducted me to the island were pressed by their private affairs to return in three days.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan):
synonyms: impel
glosses: To force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly.
examples: text: to press the Bible on an audience
text: He press'd a letter upon me within this hour.
ref: 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act II, page 27:
text: Be sure to press upon him every motive.
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:
synonyms: urge
inculcate
glosses: To try to force (something upon someone).
examples: text: to press a horse in a race
glosses: To hasten, urge onward.
examples: text: God heard their prayers, wherein they earnestly pressed him for the honor of his great name.
ref: 1825, John Winthrop, The History of New England, volume II, page 29:
glosses: To urge, beseech, entreat.
examples: text: If we read but a very little, we naturally want to press it all; if we read a great deal, we are willing not to press the whole of what we read, and we learn what ought to be pressed and what not.
ref: 1873, Matthew Arnold, “preface”, in Literature and Dogma:
synonyms: emphasize
glosses: To lay stress upon.
synonyms: word: thring
word: thrutch
word: assemble
word: begather
word: collect
word: congregate
word: congress
word: crowd
word: fall in with
word: flock
word: forgather
word: gather
word: gather up
word: group
word: herd
word: league
word: mass
word: meet
word: meet up
word: muster
word: pack
word: press
word: team
word: team up
word: thring
word: throng
word: thrutch
glosses: To throng, crowd.
glosses: To print.
examples: text: The peaceful peasant to the wars is press'd.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: press-gang
glosses: To force into service, particularly into naval service.
Derived terms: on-pressing
press ahead
press charges
press flesh
press forward
press F to pay respects
press home
pressing pad
press into service
press on
press one's case
press one's luck
press out
press pause
press someone's buttons
press stud
press the flesh
press the panic button
press tits
press-to-talk
press-to-transmit
Related terms: topics: baking
cooking
food
lifestyle
english: laundry
translation: laundry
word: hot press
topics: printing
publishing
media
word: hot off the press
word: press down