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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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”). 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)
- An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
2004 10, “Maximum PC”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 25:Connecting to the service is almost idiot proof and takes just a few button presses.
2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian: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.
- (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
a flower press
- (uncountable) A crowd.
1962, Olivia Manning, The Spoilt City; republished as The Balkan Trilogy, 1990, →ISBN, page 327:The press in the square grew. Something would happen now.
- (countable) A printing machine.
- Synonym: printing press
Stop the presses!
1972, Carol A. Nemeyer, Scholarly Reprint Publishing in the United States, New York, N.Y.: R. R. Bowker Co., →ISBN, page 8: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.
- (uncountable, collective) 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[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC: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, 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 […].
- (countable, golf, gambling) 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.
2012, Gary McCord, Golf For Dummies: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.
2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Sports Betting, page 181:When a side is two or more points down in the match, they may request 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.
- Synonym: press-gang
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :I have misused the king's press.
- (psychology) In personology, any environmental factor that arouses a need in the individual.
2009, Allison E. Smith, Ageing in Urban Neighbourhoods, page 88:The environmental comfort category is illustrative of cases in which there are low environmental presses matched against a number of personal competences.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
device used to apply pressure
- Afrikaans: pers (af)
- Belarusian: прэс m (pres)
- Bulgarian: пре́са (bg) f (présa)
- Catalan: premsa (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 壓機/压机 (zh) (yājī), 壓榨機/压榨机 (zh) (yāzhàjī)
- Czech: lis (cs) m
- Danish: presse c
- Dutch: (please verify) pers (nl) f or m
- Erzya: матрамка (matramka)
- Finnish: puristin (fi) (active), paino (fi) (passive)
- French: pressoir (fr) m
- Galician: prensa (gl) f
- German: Presse (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἶπος f (îpos), ἐκπιεστήριον n (ekpiestḗrion)
- Hungarian: prés (hu), sajtó (hu)
- Ingrian: pressi
- Irish: preas m
- Italian: pressa (it) f, torchio (it) m
- Japanese: (for flowers) 押し花器 (おしばなき, oshibanaki), (for pants) ズボンプレス (zubon-puresu), ズボンプレッサー (zubon-puressā), パンツプレス (pantsu-puresu), パンツプレッサー (pantsu-puressā), (for juice, oil, etc. by squeezing) 圧搾機 (ja) (あっさくき, assakuki)
- Kyrgyz: сыкма (ky) (sıkma)
- Latin: prēlum n, torcular n
- Macedonian: пре́са f (présa)
- Maori: perehi
- Ottoman Turkish: باصقی (baskı), جندره (cendere)
- Picard: pressor
- Polish: prasa (pl) f
- Portuguese: prensa (pt) f, imprensa (pt)
- Romanian: teasc (ro) n
- Russian: пресс (ru) m (press) (industrial), соковыжима́лка (ru) f (sokovyžimálka) (for fruits and vegetables)
- Spanish: prensa (es) f
- Swedish: press (sv) c
- Ukrainian: прес m (pres)
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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; to exert pressure upon.
- (transitive, mechanics, electronics) To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.
- Synonyms: strike, hit, depress
- (transitive) To compress, squeeze.
- Synonyms: thring, thrutch; see also Thesaurus:compress
to press fruit for the purpose of extracting the juice
- (transitive) To clasp, hold in an embrace.
- Synonym: hug
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 and R Tonson, , published 1760, →OCLC, page 456:With tears and ſmiles ſhe took her ſon, and preſs'd / Th' illuſtrious infant to her fragrant breaſt.
- (transitive) To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
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.
- Synonyms: thring, thrutch
to press a crowd back
- (transitive, obsolete) To weigh upon, oppress, trouble.
c. 1621, John Fletcher, The Pilgrim, act I, scene ii:He turns from us; / Alas, he weeps too! Something presses him / He would reveal, but dare not. Sir, be comforted.
- (transitive) To force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly.
- Synonym: impel
1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. , volume II, London: Benj Motte, , →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan):The two gentlemen who conducted me to the island were pressed by their private affairs to return in three days.
- To try to force (something upon someone).
- Synonyms: urge, inculcate
to press the Bible on an audience
1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. , London: Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC, Act II, page 27:He press'd a letter upon me within this hour.
1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. , London: J Tonson, , published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:Be sure to press upon him every motive.
- (transitive) To hasten, urge onward.
to press a horse in a race
- (transitive) To urge, beseech, entreat.
1825, John Winthrop, The History of New England, volume II, page 29:God heard their prayers, wherein they earnestly pressed him for the honor of his great name.
- (transitive) To lay stress upon.
- Synonym: emphasize
1873, Matthew Arnold, “preface”, in Literature and Dogma: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.
- (transitive, intransitive) To throng, crowd.
- Synonyms: thring, thrutch; see also Thesaurus:assemble
- (transitive, obsolete) To print.
- To force into service, particularly into naval service.
- Synonym: press-gang
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:The peaceful peasant to the wars is press'd.
Derived terms
Translations
to apply pressure
- Arabic: ضَغَطَ (ḍaḡaṭa)
- Armenian: սեղմել (hy) (seġmel)
- Assamese: টিপা (tipa), চেপা (sepa), হেঁচা (hẽsa)
- Azerbaijani: sıxmaq (az), basmaq (az)
- Bulgarian: натискам (bg) (natiskam), налягам (bg) (naljagam)
- Burmese: နှိပ် (my) (hnip), ဖိ (my) (hpi.)
- Catalan: prémer (ca), pitjar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Hokkien: 揤 (zh-min-nan) (tshi̍h)
- Mandarin: 按 (zh) (àn), 壓/压 (zh) (yā)
- Chuvash: пус (pus)
- Czech: tisknout (cs), stisknout
- Dutch: drukken (nl)
- Esperanto: premi (eo)
- Finnish: painaa (fi)
- French: presser (fr), appuyer (fr)
- Galician: prensar, presionar, pisar (gl), premer (gl), sobar (gl)
- Gallurese: abbaticà
- Georgian: შეკუმშვა (šeḳumšva)
- German: drücken (de)
- Hindi: दबाना (hi) (dabānā)
- Hungarian: nyom (hu), megnyom (hu), benyom (hu)
- Ido: presar (io)
- Italian: premere (it)
- Japanese: 押す (ja) (おす, osu)
- Javanese: peres (jv), meres (jv)
- Kabuverdianu: kalka
- Khmer: សង្កត់ (km) (sɑŋkɑt)
- Korean: 누르다 (ko) (nureuda)
- Kyrgyz: басуу (ky) (basuu)
- Latin: premō
- Macedonian: при́тисне (prítisne)
- Malagasy: fia (mg)
- Malay: perah (ms)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: дарах (mn) (darax), шахах (mn) (šaxax)
- Mongolian: ᠳᠠᠷᠤᠬᠤ (daruqu), ᠰᠢᠬᠠᠬᠤ (siqaqu)
- Norman: prêssi (Jersey)
- Occitan: prémer
- Persian: فشردن (fa) (fešordan)
- Polish: dociskać impf, docisnąć pf, przyciskać (pl) impf, przycisnąć (pl) pf
- Portuguese: prensar, pressionar (pt)
- Quechua: ñit'iy
- Romanian: apăsa (ro)
- Russian: нажима́ть (ru) impf (nažimátʹ), жать (ru) impf (žatʹ), нажа́ть (ru) pf (nažátʹ), дави́ть (ru) impf (davítʹ), надави́ть (ru) pf (nadavítʹ)
- Sanskrit: पीडयति (sa) (pīḍayati)
- Sardinian:
- Campidanese: caccigai, craccai, aprettai
- Logudorese: abbattigare, abbattire, carcare
- Serbo-Croatian: pritisnuti (sh) pf
- Spanish: prensar (es), presionar (es), oprimir (es)
- Swedish: trycka (sv), pressa (sv)
- Tamil: அழுத்து (ta) (aḻuttu), அமுக்கு (ta) (amukku)
- Thai: ดัน (th) (dan), กด (th) (gòt)
- Turkish: basmak (tr)
- Urdu: دبانا (dabānā)
- Vietnamese: ấn (vi), ép (vi), nhấn (vi)
- Welsh: gwasgu (cy)
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to smooth cloth with an iron
to indicate that a story is being printed
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References
Anagrams
German
Verb
press
- singular imperative of pressen
- (colloquial) 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)
- pressure
- (weightlifting) a press
Related terms
Etymology 2
Verb
press
- imperative of presse
References
- “press” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “press_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From the verb presse.
Noun
press n (definite singular presset, indefinite plural press, definite plural pressa)
- pressure
- (weightlifting) a press
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References
Spanish
Noun
press m (plural press)
- press (exercise)
Swedish
Pronunciation
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
- the press (newspapers, journalism as a branch of society)
- (mental) pressure
- a muscle exercise that applies pressure
Declension
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