Press

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English

Noun

Press (countable and uncountable; plural Presses)
  1. (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
    ...a flower press.
  2. (uncountable) A collective term for the print based media (both the people and the newspapers)
    This article appeared in the press.
    ...according to a member of the press...
  3. (countable) A publisher.
  4. (countable) An enclosed storage space (eg closet, cupboard).
    Put the cups in the press.
  5. (countable) A printing machine.
    Stop the presses!
  6. (countable, weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
    • 1974, Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 22.
      This is the fourth set of benchpresses. There will be five more; then there will be five sets of presses on an inclined bench […]
  7. (countable, wagering) 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.
    He can even the match with a press.
  8. (countable) Pure, unfermented, unaltered grape juice.
    I would like some Concord press with my meal tonight.

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Verb

Press (third-person singular simple present presses, present participle pressing, simple past and past participle pressed or prest[1])

  1. (ambitransitive) to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight
  2. (transitive) to compress, squeeze
    to press fruit for the purpose of extracting the juice
  3. (transitive) to clasp, hold in an embrace; to hug
    She took her son, and press'd
    The illustrious infant to her fragrant breast (Dryden, Illiad, VI. 178.)
  4. (transitive) to reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth
    to press cloth with an iron
    to press a hat
  5. (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.
  6. (transitive) to drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction
    to press a crowd back
  7. (transitive, obsolete) to weigh upon, oppress, trouble
    He turns from us;
    Alas, he weeps too! Something presses him
    He would reveal, but dare not.-Sir, be comforted. (Fletcher, Pilgrim, I. 2.)
  8. (transitive) to force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly, impel
    The two gentlemen who conducted me to the island were pressed by their private affairs to return in three days. (Swift, Gulliver's Travels, III. 8)
  9. (transitive) to hasten, urge onward
  10. (transitive) to urge, beseech, entreat
    God heard their prayers, wherein they earnestly pressed him for the honor of his great name. (Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 35)
  11. (transitive) to lay stress upon, emphasize
    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. (M. Arnold, Literature and Dogma, Pref.)
  12. (ambitransitive) to throng, crowd
  13. (transitive, obsolete) to print
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Adjectives for Press

fluctuating; sensational; hostile; radical daily; periodical; increasing; indefatigable groaning; gagged; obnoxious; printing vigilant; militant; bourgeois; respective converted; brick; clashing; illustrated.

Verbs for Press

affiliate with—; divulge to—; gag—; meddle in—; regale—; ruffle—; tumble from—; —alludes to; —argues; —denounces; —discusses; —howls; —screams; —shouts; —spits out; —whirls.

Thesaurus

AP, Associated Press, Fleet Street, Reuters, UPI, United Press International, accelerate, advice, adviser, advocate, annex, announcer, annunciator, apply pressure, army, ask, aspirator, assault, assemble, assert, attach, authority, bear, bear against, bear down on, bear down upon, bear hard upon, bear on, bear upon, bearing, bed, beg, beseech, beset, besiege, blandish, book publishing, boost, bosom, broadcast journalism, broadcasting, brook no denial, buck, bug, bull, bulldoze, bump, bump against, bundle, bunt, bustle, butt, butt against, buttonhole, cajole, calender, call, call on, call up, call upon, call-up, channel, clamp, clamping, clamping down, clasp, cleave to, clinch, clip, cluster, clutch, coax, cohue, collect, collectivize, commandeer, communalize, communicant, communications, communications industry, communicator, communize, compact, compel, composing room, compress, compression, compulsion, compulsory military service, concentrate, condense, confiscate, congest, congregate, conscript, conscription, consolidate, constrain, constraint, contend, converge, convergence, converging, corkscrew, cram, crisis, crowbar, crowd, crowding, crunch, crush, cylinder press, deluge, demand, densen, densify, depress, detach, detach for service, dig, dispatch, distrain, draft, draft call, drafting, drive, drive on, drove, dun, elbow, embosom, embrace, emergency, enfold, enlightener, enlist, enlistment, enroll, enrollment, ensphere, entreat, exert pressure, exhort, exigency, expedite, expert witness, express, expropriate, extractor, flatbed cylinder press, flatten, flock, flood, fold, force, force upon, forceps, forward, fourth estate, galaxy, garnish, gather, gathering, goad, gossipmonger, grapevine, haste, hasten, hasten on, haul, head, heap, heave, herd, hie on, high pressure, high-pressure, horde, host, hot-press, huddle, hug, hurry, hurry along, hurry on, hurry up, hurtle, hustle, hustle up, impel, imperativeness, importune, impound, impress, impressment, impulse, impulsion, induce, induct, induction, informant, information, information center, information medium, informer, insist, insist on, insist upon, intelligence, interviewee, iron, jab, jam, jawbone, jog, joggle, join, jolt, jostle, journalism, lean on, legion, levy, lie on, list, lobby, magazine publishing, maintain, makeready, mangle, mash, mass, meet, mill, mob, mobilization, mobilize, monitor, mouthpiece, move, multitude, muster, muster in, nag, nag at, nationalize, news, news agency, news medium, news service, newsiness, newsletter, newsmagazine, newsmonger, newspaper, newsworthiness, nip, notifier, nudge, oppress, overexert, overextend, overstrain, overtax, pack, panoply, paparazzi, persist, persuade, pester, pile, pile drive, pincers, pinch, pipette, plague, platen, platen press, plead with, pliers, ply, ply upon, poke, precipitate, press association, press down, press upon, pressroom, pressure, presswork, print medium, printing machine, printing office, printing press, printshop, prod, proofroom, propel, provoke, public press, public print, public relations officer, publisher, publishers, publishing, publishing house, publishing industry, pull, pump, punch, push, push on, push through, push upon, put pressure on, quicken, rabble, rack, radio, railroad through, raise, ram, ram down, rash impulse, rattle, recommend, recruit, recruiting, recruitment, replevin, replevy, reportage, reporter, request, rest on, roll, rotary press, rotogravure press, rout, ruck, run, run against, rush, rush along, sadden, seethe, selective service, separator, sequester, sequestrate, shake, shoulder, shove, sign on, sign up, siphon, smooth, socialize, soft-soap, solidify, source, spate, speed, speed along, speed up, spokesman, spur, squab, squash, squeeze, squeezing, squish, stampede, stand on, steam, stick to, strain, strain every nerve, stress, stretch, stuff, summon, summons, swarm, sweat blood, sweet-talk, take no denial, tamp, tax, tease, telegraph agency, television, teller, tense, tension, the fourth estate, the press, throng, thronging, thrust, thrust upon, tidings, tighten, tightening, tipster, tout, tug, tweak, tweezers, urge, urge upon, urgency, vacuum pump, wad up, web, web press, weigh down, weigh on, weigh upon, wheedle, whip, whip along, wire service, witness, word, work on, wringer

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Middle English presse "throng, crowd, clothespress", partially from Old English press "clothespress" from Medieval Latin pressa, and partially 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").

Etymology 2

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".

Translations

Noun

device used to apply pressure
printed media
publisher — see publisher
enclosed storage space
printing machine
exercise

Verb

to apply pressure
to indicate that a story is being printed
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See also

References

  1. ↑ Entry for the imperfect and past participle in Webster's dictionary
  • Press in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
  • “Press” in OED Online, Oxford University Press, 1989.

Anagrams

Swedish

Noun

Press c.

  1. a press; a tool that applies pressure (to make things flat, to make juice)
  2. a (printing) press
    stoppa pressarna
    stop the presses
  3. the press (newspapers, journalism as a branch of society)
  4. (mental) pressure
  5. a muscle exercise that applies pressure

Pronunciation

Declension

Declension of Press
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative Press Pressen Pressar Pressarna
genitive Press Pressens Pressars Pressarnas

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