Press meaning
To press is defined as to push or apply steady force or squeeze.
An example of to press is pushing a button on a blender to make it start.
An example of to press is ironing wrinkles out of a shirt.
An example of to press is to squeeze the juice out of grapes to make wine.
verb
Press is a machine that uses pressure to print or squeeze, or a person or business involved with news or media.
An example of a press is a printing press.
An example of the press is The Washington Post.
noun
To lift (a weight) to a position above the head without moving the legs.
verb
To exert force or pressure.
Felt the backpack pressing on her shoulders.
verb
To be worrisome or depressing; weigh heavily.
Guilt pressed upon his conscience.
verb
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To continue a course of action, especially in spite of difficulties.
Decided to press ahead with the performance even with a sore throat.
verb
To require haste or urgent action.
Matters that have not stopped pressing.
verb
To employ urgent persuasion or entreaty.
The supervisor has been pressing to get us to finish the project sooner.
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To iron clothes or other material.
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To raise or lift a weight in a press.
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To employ a press.
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In golf, to try to hit long or risky shots, typically with unsuccessful results.
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Any of various machines or devices that apply pressure.
A cider press.
noun
A printing press.
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An act of pressing down or applying pressure.
With the press of a button.
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The haste or urgency of business or matters.
The press of the day's events.
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The set of proper creases in a garment or fabric, formed by ironing.
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An upright closet or case used for storing clothing, books, or other articles.
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A lift in weightlifting in which the weight is raised to shoulder level and then steadily pushed straight overhead without movement of the legs.
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An aggressive defense tactic in which players guard opponents closely, often over the entire court.
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To force into service in the army or navy; impress.
verb
Conscription or impressment into service, especially into the army or navy.
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An official warrant for impressing men into military service.
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To act on with steady force or weight; push steadily against; squeeze.
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To depress or touch (a button, key, etc.) as in using an elevator, keyboard, etc.
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To embrace closely.
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To force; compel; constrain.
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To urge or request earnestly or persistently; entreat; importune.
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To impose by persistent entreaty; try to force.
To press a gift on a friend.
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To lay stress on; be insistent about; emphasize.
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To distress or trouble; harass.
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To urge on; drive quickly.
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To shape (a phonograph record, metal or plastic products, etc.) by use of a form or matrix.
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To crowd; throng.
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To exert pressure.
- To weigh down; bear heavily.
- To go forward with energetic or determined effort.
- To force one's way.
- To crowd; throng.
- To be urgent or insistent.
- To try too hard.He strikes out often because he is pressing.
verb
To react to being pressed, or ironed.
This fabric presses well.
verb
To iron clothes, etc.
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A pressing or being pressed; pressure, urgency, etc.
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A crowd; throng.
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An instrument or machine by which something is crushed, squeezed, stamped, smoothed, etc. by pressure.
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A viselike device in which a tennis racket, etc. can be stored to keep it from warping.
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The condition of clothes as to smoothness, creases, etc. after pressing.
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A cabinet for storing clothes or other articles; wardrobe, cupboard, etc.
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A defensive tactic in which offensive players are guarded very closely, usually over the full court.
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A lift in which the barbell or weight is pushed away from the body using the arms or legs.
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To force into military or naval service; impress.
verb
To force or urge into any kind of service.
verb
To use in a way different from the ordinary, esp. in an emergency.
verb
An impressment, or forcing into service, esp. naval or military service.
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An order for impressing recruits.
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(countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
- (countable) A printing machine.Stop the presses!.
A flower press.
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(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.
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(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.
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(countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
I would like some Concord press with my meal tonight.
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A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
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(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.
verb
To try to force (something upon someone); to urge or inculcate.
To press the Bible on an audience.
verb
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.)
verb
To force into service, particularly into naval service.
verb
go to press
- To be submitted for printing.
idiom
in press
- Submitted for printing; in the process of being printed.
idiom
press charges
- To bring a formal accusation of criminal wrongdoing against someone.
idiom
pressed for time
- In a hurry; under time pressure.
idiom
press the flesh
- To shake hands and mingle with many people, especially while campaigning for public office.
idiom
go to press
- To start to be printed or to begin printing.
idiom
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of press
- Alteration of obsolete prest to hire for military service by advance payment from Middle English enlistment money, loan from Old French from prester to lend from Medieval Latin praestāre from Latin to furnish from praestō present, at hand ghes- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English pressen from Old French presser from Latin pressāre frequentative of premere to press per-4 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English pressen (“to crowd, thring, press"), from Old French presser (“to press") (Modern French presser) from Latin pressÄre 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 þrÇ£stan (“to press, force")), Old English þryscan (“to press"), Old English þȳwan (“to press, impress").
From Wiktionary
- 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 pressÄre 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")).
From Wiktionary