press
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
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gambling
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human-sciences
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mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
psychology
sciences
sewing
sports
textiles
weightlifting
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”). Cheifly displaced native Middle English thring (“press, crowd, throng”) (from Old English þring (“a press, crowd, anything that presses or confines”)).
see English thring
Inflected forms:
form: presses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: presses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pressing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pressed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pressed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: prest
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prest
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: press
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: press
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: pressed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: press
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: pressest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: pressed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: pressedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: presses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: presseth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: pressed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: press
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: pressed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: press
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: pressed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: press
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: pressing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pressed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
Senses:
gloss: An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Connecting to the service is almost idiot proof and takes just a few button presses.
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.
gloss: A device used to apply pressure to an item.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: a flower press
gloss: A crowd.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature.
The press in the square grew. Something would happen now.
Imagine the press of humanity in a crowded Parisian brasserie, circa the era when Lagerfeld would have been patronizing such joints.
gloss: A printing machine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Stop the presses!
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.
gloss: The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
pos: noun
tags: collective
uncountable
examples: according to a member of the press
This article appeared in the press.
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.
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.
gloss: A publisher.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
pos: noun
tags: countable
especially
examples: Put the cups in the press.
Put the ironing in the linen press.
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,[…].
gloss: An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: This is the fourth set of benchpresses. There will be five more; then there will be five sets of presses on an inclined bench[…].
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He can even the match with a press.
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.
When a side is two or more points down in the match, they may request a press.
gloss: Pure, unfermented grape juice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I would like some Concord press with my meal tonight.
gloss: A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I have misused the king's press.
gloss: In personology, any environmental factor that arouses a need in the individual.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The environmental comfort category is illustrative of cases in which there are low environmental presses matched against a number of personal competences.
gloss: To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To compress, squeeze.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to press fruit for the purpose of extracting the juice
gloss: To clasp, hold in an embrace.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: With tears and ſmiles ſhe took her ſon, and preſs'd / Th' illuſtrious infant to her fragrant breaſt.
gloss: To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to press cloth with a clothes-iron
to press a hat
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to press a crowd back
gloss: To weigh upon, oppress, trouble.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: He turns from us; / Alas, he weeps too! Something presses him / He would reveal, but dare not. Sir, be comforted.
gloss: To force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The two gentlemen who conducted me to the island were pressed by their private affairs to return in three days.
gloss: To try to force (something upon someone).
pos: verb
examples: to press the Bible on an audience
He press'd a letter upon me within this hour.
Be sure to press upon him every motive.
gloss: To hasten, urge onward.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to press a horse in a race
gloss: To urge, beseech, entreat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: God heard their prayers, wherein they earnestly pressed him for the honor of his great name.
gloss: To lay stress upon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To throng, crowd.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To print.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To force into service, particularly into naval service.
pos: verb
examples: The peaceful peasant to the wars is press'd.
Derived words: all-court press
alternative press
amateur press association
antipress
any press is good press
arming press
bad press
bench press
bench-press
body press
bookpress
brake press
Bramah press
chest press
cider press
close for press
clothes-press
clothes press
cold 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
gorilla press
go to press
gutter press
handpress
hand press
hot from the press
hot off the press
hot press
hotpress
hydraulic press
hydropress
keypress
key press
leg press
letterpress
long-press
mating press
military press
monkey press
mosquito press
nonpress
overhead press
Pallof press
perfecting press
permanent press
pill press
plate press
prepress
press agency
press agent
press avail
press availability
pressback
pressboard
press box
press brake
press button
press cake
press card
press conference
press corps
press cutting
pressdom
pressfeeder
pressful
press gaggle
press gallery
press gang
pressie
press junket
press kit
pressless
pressman
pressmark
press-mark
pressmaster
press money
press office
press officer
press-on
pressor beam
presspack
press pack
press pass
pressperson
press pool
press pot
press proof
press relations
press release
press revise
press roll
pressroom
pressrun
press run
press secretary
press time
presstime
presstitute
presstitution
press-up
pressvat
press wheel
presswoman
presswork
pressworker
printed press
punch press
read for press
rolling press
rotary press
rotary printing press
run of press
science by press release
screw press
screwpress
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
wallpress
wheel press
winepress
WordPress
yellow press
mispress
cold-press
compress
downpress
express
hot-press
impress
on-pressing
oppress
outpress
overpress
permapress
pressable
press ahead
press charges
press down
press flesh
press forward
press F to pay respects
press home
pressing pad
press into service
pressive
pressly
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
repress
suppress
surpress
unpress
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