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Verb: press pres- Exert pressure or force to or upon
"He pressed down on the boards"; "press your thumb on this spot" - Force or impel in an indicated direction
- Noun: press pres- The state of demanding notice or attention
"the press of business matters" - imperativeness, insistence, insistency, pressure - The print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines
- public press - A machine used for printing
- printing press - A dense crowd of people
- crush, jam - A tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes
- wardrobe, closet - Clamp to prevent wooden rackets from warping when not in use
- Any machine that exerts pressure to form or shape or cut materials or extract liquids or compress solids
- mechanical press - A weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead
- military press - The act of pressing; the exertion of pressure
"he gave the button a press" - pressure, pressing
Derived forms: pressing, presses, pressed See also: pressing, pressure Type of: advertise, advertize [US, non-standard], advise, article of furniture, be, cast, clamp, clinch, counsel, count, create, crowd, exercise, flatten, flatten out, force, furniture, machine, make, mass, matter, mold [N. Amer], mould [Brit, Cdn], piece of furniture, plead, print media, promote, push, pushing, rede [archaic], tighten, touch, urgency, weigh, weightlift, weightlifting, work out Encyclopedia: Press |