Dictionary Definition
press
Noun
1 newspaper writers and photographers [syn:
fourth
estate]
2 the state of urgently demanding notice or
attention; "the press of business matters" [syn: imperativeness, insistence, insistency, pressure]
3 the gathering and publishing of news in the
form of newspapers or magazines [syn: public
press]
4 a machine used for printing [syn: printing
press]
6 a tall piece of furniture that provides storage
space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging
clothes [syn: wardrobe,
closet]
7 clamp to prevent wooden rackets from warping
when not in use
8 any machine that exerts pressure to form or
shape or cut materials or extract liquids or compress solids [syn:
mechanical
press]
9 a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to
shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead [syn: military
press]
10 the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure;
"he gave the button a press"; "he used pressure to stop the
bleeding"; "at the pressing of a button" [syn: pressure, pressing]
Verb
1 exert pressure or force to or upon; "He pressed
down on the boards"; "press your thumb on this spot"
2 force or impel in an indicated direction; "I
urged him to finish his studies" [syn: urge, urge on, exhort]
3 to be oppressive or burdensome; "weigh heavily
on the mind", "Something pressed on his mind" [syn: weigh]
4 place between two surfaces and apply weight or
pressure; "pressed flowers"
5 squeeze or press together; "she compressed her
lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle" [syn: compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract]
6 crowd closely; "The crowds pressed along the
street"
7 create by pressing; "Press little holes into
the soft clay"
8 be urgent; "This is a pressing problem"
9 exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or
obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain
cause or person; be an advocate for; "The liberal party pushed for
reforms"; "She is crusading for women's rights"; "The Dean is
pushing for his favorite candidate" [syn: crusade, fight, campaign, push, agitate]
10 press from a plastic; "press a record" [syn:
press
out]
11 make strenuous pushing movements during birth
to expel the baby; "`Now push hard,' said the doctor to the woman"
[syn: push]
12 lift weights; "This guy can press 300 pounds"
[syn: weight-lift,
weightlift]
13 ask for or request earnestly; "The prophet bid
all people to become good persons" [syn: bid, beseech, entreat, adjure, conjure]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology 1
Via Middle English from Old French, compare French presserfc-level
check placement of Pronunciation
Pronunciation
-
- Rhymes: -ɛs
Noun
- A device used to
apply pressure to an item.
- ...a flower press.
- 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...
- This article appeared in the press.
- An enclosed storage space (eg closet, cupboard).
- Put the cups in the press.
- General term for a printing machine.
- Stop the presses!
- An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
Synonyms
- sense storage space closet, cupboard, wardrobe (British)
- sense printing machine printing press
Derived terms
Translations
device used to apply pressure
- Czech: lis
- Dutch: pers /
- Galician: prensa
- German: Presse
- Japanese: qualifier for flowers 押し花器; qualifier for pants ズボンプレス, ズボンプレッサー, パンツプレス, パンツプレッサー; 圧搾機
- Portuguese: prensa
- Spanish: prensa
printed media
enclosed storage space
- Japanese: qualifier cupboard 棚; qualifier closet タンス
- Scottish Gaelic: preas
printing machine
- Dutch: pers /
- German: Druckerpresse
- Japanese: 印刷機
- Portuguese: imprensa
- Spanish: prensa
exercise
- Japanese: プレス
- Spanish: pres, prensa
Etymology 2
Via Middle English from Old French, compare French presserVerb
- To apply pressure
to an item.
- Press any key
- (with "gone"): To indicate that a story is being printed.
- That story has gone to press.
Derived terms
Translations
to apply pressure
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 壓, 压 (yā)
- Czech: tisknout, stisknout
- Dutch: drukken
- Finnish: painaa
- French: presser
- Galician: prensar, presionar
- German: drücken
- Hindi: दबाना (dabānā)
- Hungarian: nyom, megnyom, benyom
- Italian: premere
- Japanese: 押す
- Korean: 누르다 (nureuda)
- Portuguese: prensar, pressionar
- Russian: нажимать (nažimát’)
- Spanish: prensar, presionar
- Swedish: trycka
to indicate that a story is being printed
- ttbc Catalan: prémer
- ttbc Dutch: drukken
- ttbc French: appuyer
- ttbc German: drücken, drängen
- ttbc Korean: 누르다 (nureuda)
- ttbc Kurdish:
See also
- hot press (baking, laundry)
- hot off the press (printing)
- press down
Extensive Definition
Press may refer to:
In publishing:
- The press or journalism
- The press or the newspaper business
- The press or news media
- The Fourth Estate, the press in its explicit capacity of advocacy and in its implicit ability to frame political issues
- The popular press or mass media
- A press or publishing house
- A press or printer (publisher)
- Printing press, a machine that presses ink from a printing plate onto paper
- The Press, a newspaper published in Christchurch, New Zealand
- The Press (York), an English regional newspaper
- Press TV, an Iranian English-language news channel
In industry and home economics:
- Machine press, a machine that shapes material by the application of pressure
- Hydraulic press, a machine press operating by hydraulic pressure
- Flypress, a machine that cuts material by pressing with a sharp edged mold or tool
- Linen-press, a cabinet for storing household textiles and clothing.
- Trouser press, an appliance to remove wrinkles from trousers
- RAM press, a patented machine used to press clay in the pottery business
- Pressing or ironing, the process of pressing wrinkles out of (or into) clothes
- A method of straightening curly hair, primarily used by African-Americans, that uses a hot comb
In food preparation:
- French press, a device for coffee preparation
- Fruit press, a press used to extract juice from grapes and apples
- Garlic press, a device to crush garlic cloves for cooking.
- Ram press (food), a device used to extract juice from fruits, like grapes, apples and oil from crushed oil seeds
In music:
- "Press" (song), a song by Paul McCartney
In sports:
- Clean and press, a weight-training exercise, and one of the three lifts contested in the sport of weightlifting until 1972
- Military press, a weight-training exercise
In military:
- Impressment, a method of involuntary recruitment by a Navy department
See also
press in German: Presse
press in Spanish: Prensa
press in Basque: Prentsa
press in French: Presse
press in Italian: Pressa
press in Japanese: プレス
press in Norwegian Nynorsk: Presse
press in Polish: Prasa
press in Portuguese: Imprensa
press in Dutch: Pers
press in Japanese: プレス
press in Russian: Печать
press in Urdu: پریس
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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