press
English
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”)).
Noun
press (countable and uncountable, plural presses)
- (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
- a flower press
- (countable) A printing machine.
- Stop the presses!
- (uncountable) A collective term for the print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
- according to a member of the press; This article appeared in the press.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- 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.
- 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
- 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.
- (countable) A publisher.
- (countable, especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
- Put the cups in the press. Put the ironing in the linen press.
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
- 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, […].
- (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, p.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 […].
- 1974, Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, p.22:
- (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.
- (countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
- I would like some Concord press with my meal tonight.
- A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
- (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- I have misused the king's press.
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- (obsolete) A crowd.
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- And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature.
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Synonyms
- (storage space): See closet, cupboard, pantry
- (printing machine): printing press
- (conscripting force): press-gang
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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”).
Verb
press (third-person singular simple present presses, present participle pressing, simple past and past participle pressed or prest)
- (transitive, intransitive) to exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight
- (transitive) to compress, squeeze
- to press fruit for the purpose of extracting the juice
- (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.)
- (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
- (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
- to press a crowd back
- (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.)
- (transitive) to force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly, impel
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- The two gentlemen who conducted me to the island were pressed by their private affairs to return in three days.
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- To try to force (something upon someone); to urge or inculcate.
- to press the Bible on an audience
- (transitive) to hasten, urge onward
- to press a horse in a race
- (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)
- (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.)
- (transitive, intransitive) to throng, crowd
- (transitive, obsolete) to print
- To force into service, particularly into naval service.
- (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- To peaceful peasant to the wars is pressed.
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Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:press.
Synonyms
- (drive, thrust): thring, thrutch
- (compress, squeeze): thring, thrutch; see also Thesaurus:compress
- (throng, crowd): thring, thrutch; see also Thesaurus:assemble
- (force into service): press-gang
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See also
- hot press (baking, laundry)
- hot off the press (printing)
- press down
References
- Entry for the imperfect and past participle in Webster's dictionary
- “press”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “press”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams
German
Verb
press
- (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of pressen.
- (colloquial) (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of pressen.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From the verb presse
Noun
press n (definite singular presset, indefinite plural press, definite plural pressa or pressene)
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Etymology 2
Verb
press
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From the verb presse
Noun
press n (definite singular presset, indefinite plural press, definite plural pressa)
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References
- “press” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Spanish
Noun
press m (plural press)
- press (exercise)
Swedish
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
press c
- a press; a tool that applies pressure (to make things flat, to make juice)
- a (printing) press
- stoppa pressarna
- stop the presses
- stoppa pressarna
- the press (newspapers, journalism as a branch of society)
- (mental) pressure
- a muscle exercise that applies pressure
Declension
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | press | pressen | pressar | pressarna |
Genitive | press | pressens | pressars | pressarnas |
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