press en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /pɻɛs/ (Northern-Ireland)
- (US) audio
- /pɹɛs/ (Received-Pronunciation, US)
- /pɾɛs/ (Scotland, Wales)
- (London) audio
- /pɹes/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
Etymology
From 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”). Chiefly displaced native Middle English thring (“press, crowd, throng”) (from Old English þring (“a press, crowd, anything that presses or confines”)). see English thring
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
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.
2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian:Connecting to the service is almost idiot proof and takes just a few button presses.
2004 10, “Maximum PC”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 25:
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(countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
a cheese press
a flower press
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(uncountable) A crowd.
Imagine the press of humanity in a crowded Parisian brasserie, circa the era when Lagerfeld would have been patronizing such joints.
2015 March 10, Tim Banks, “Chanel Fall 2015 Ready-to-Wear Collection”, in Vogue:And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 19:3:The press in the square grew. Something would happen now.
1962, Olivia Manning, The Spoilt City; republished as The Balkan Trilogy, 1990, →ISBN, page 327:
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(countable) A printing machine.
Stop the presses!
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.
1972, Carol A. Nemeyer, Scholarly Reprint Publishing in the United States, New York, N.Y.: R. R. Bowker Co., →ISBN, page 8:
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(collective, uncountable) The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
according to a member of the press
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.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:This article appeared in the press.
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.
2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
- (countable) A publisher.
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(countable, especially, in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
Put the ironing in the linen press.
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,[…].
1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:Put the cups in the press.
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(countable) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
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, page 22:
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(countable) 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.
When a side is two or more points down in the match, they may request a press.
2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Sports Betting, page 181: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.
2012, Gary McCord, Golf For Dummies: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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(countable, uncountable) A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
I have misused the king's press.
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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
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(countable, uncountable) In personology, any environmental factor that arouses a need in the individual.
The environmental comfort category is illustrative of cases in which there are low environmental presses matched against a number of personal competences.
2009, Allison E. Smith, Ageing in Urban Neighbourhoods, page 88:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| presses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
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Synonyms
pantry (storage space) · press-gang · printing press · cupboard (storage space) · closet (storage space)
Translations (186)
sh штампа (printed media) · uk прес (device used to apply pressure) · ko 미디어 (printed media) · ru пре́сса (printed media) · bg пре́са (device used to apply pressure) · ar صِحَافَة (printed media) · ja パンツプレス (device used to apply pressure) · nn press (weightlifting exercise) · grc ἐκπιεστήριον (device used to apply pressure) · ja タンス (enclosed storage space) · ja ズボンプレッサー (device used to apply pressure) · cs lis (device used to apply pressure) · es prensa (printed media) · sv tryckpress (printing machine) · my စာပုံနှိပ်စက် (printing machine) · da presse (device used to apply pressure) · sh tisak (printed media) · th หนังสือพิมพ์ (printed media) · gl prensa (printed media) · ar مَطْبُوعَات (printed media) · ru печа́ть (printed media) · fi painokone (printing machine) · ko 프레스 (weightlifting exercise) · pt imprensa (device used to apply pressure) · pt prensa (device used to apply pressure) · ko 인쇄기 (printing machine) · vi báo chí (printed media) · hi मुद्रणालय (printing machine) · ru соковыжима́лка (device used to apply pressure) · cmn 新聞界 /新闻界 (printed media) · nrf preisse (enclosed storage space) · ur مَطْبُوعات (printed media) · hu prés (device used to apply pressure) · cy gwasg (printed media) · alt базырткыш (device used to apply pressure) · cmn 媒體 /媒体 (printed media) · ja 印刷機 (printing machine) · mn ᠬᠡᠪᠯᠡᠯ (printed media) · cmn 壓機 /压机 (device used to apply pressure) · bg печа́т (printed media) · de Druckerpresse (printing machine) · ro presă (printed media) · cs tisk (printed media) · ja 報道 (printed media) · da presse (printed media) · fi punnerrus (weightlifting exercise) · cmn 壓榨機 /压榨机 (device used to apply pressure) · uk друка́рський верста́т (printing machine) · uk пре́са (printed media) · ur پْریس (printed media) · ga preas (device used to apply pressure) · ca impressora (printing machine) · ota باصقی (device used to apply pressure) · fi komero (enclosed storage space) · bg пре́са (printed media) · nl muurkast (enclosed storage space) · tg матбуот (printed media) · be друка́рскі варшта́т (printing machine) · tr basın (printed media) · tr baskı makinesi (printing machine) · ja 押し花器 (device used to apply pressure) · af drukpers (printed media) · et press (printed media) · fi paino (device used to apply pressure) · la prēlum (device used to apply pressure) · kk баспасөз (printed media) · be прэс (device used to apply pressure) · nb press (weightlifting exercise) · ky сыкма (device used to apply pressure) · sk tlač (printed media) · ru печа́тный стано́к (printing machine) · kmr çapemenî (printed media) · az mətbuat (printed media) · pt imprensa (printed media) · de Presse (printed media) · fa-ira پِرِس (printing machine) · ga preas (printed media) · he עיתונאות \ עִתּוֹנָאוּת (printed media) · ps مطبوعات (printed media) · ja 棚 (enclosed storage space) · alt тамга (printed media) · ca premsa (printing machine) · ga prios (enclosed storage space) · tr matbuat (printed media) · el τύπος (printed media) · it torchio (device used to apply pressure) · ru жим (weightlifting exercise) · fi paino (printing machine) · hu sajtó (printed media) · be друк (printed media) · la torcular (device used to apply pressure) · af pers (device used to apply pressure) · es press (printed media) · eo presilo (printing machine) · hu szekrény (enclosed storage space) · sl novinarstvo (printed media) · mi perehi (device used to apply pressure) · ja 圧搾機 (device used to apply pressure) · ja パンツプレッサー (device used to apply pressure) · sh štampa (printed media) · it stampa (printed media) · fr imprimerie (printing machine) · et ajakirjandus (printed media) · es pres (weightlifting exercise) · tt матбугат (printed media) · cmn 壓力機 /压力机 (device used to apply pressure) · cmn 印刷機 /印刷机 (printing machine) · ug مەتبۇئات (printed media) · sv press (device used to apply pressure) · da trykpresse (printing machine) · af drukpers (printing machine) · ky пресса (printed media) · be прэ́са (printed media) · hy մամուլ (printed media) · pcd pressor (device used to apply pressure) · mk пе́чат (printed media) · es prensa (printing machine) · ba матбуғат (printed media) · ar صُحُف (printed media) · ota منكنه (device used to apply pressure) · ar صَحَافَة (printed media) · sh prȅsa (printed media) · ca premsa (printed media) · hu sajtó (printing machine) · es prensa (weightlifting exercise) · ko 보도 (printed media) · id pres (device used to apply pressure) · fi kaappi (enclosed storage space) · uz matbuot (printed media) · nl pers (printed media) · it pressa (device used to apply pressure) · lv prese (printed media) · cmn 報刊 /报刊 (printed media) · ky басма сөз (printed media) · hu nyomás (weightlifting exercise) · sl novinarji (printed media) · ota جندره (device used to apply pressure) · fa-ira مَطْبوعات (printed media) · ja ズボンプレス (device used to apply pressure) · pt imprensa (printing machine) · mk пре́са (device used to apply pressure) · ja メディア (printed media) · sv press (printed media) · de Presse (device used to apply pressure) · hu sajtó (device used to apply pressure) · el πρέσα (printed media) · pl prasa (device used to apply pressure) · ca premsa (device used to apply pressure) · ka პრესა (printed media) · ur پَریس (printed media) · tg матбуъот (printed media) · ro teasc (device used to apply pressure) · nl pers (device used to apply pressure) · uk друк (printed media) · sq shtyp (printed media) · mk пре́са (printed media) · gl prensa (device used to apply pressure) · ar آلَةُ الطِّبَاعَة (printing machine) · crh matbuat (printed media) · ar آلَةُ طِبَاعَة (printing machine) · sh пре̏са (printed media) · mn хэвлэл (printed media) · izh pressi (device used to apply pressure) · my ပုံနှိပ်စက် (printing machine) · ru пресс (device used to apply pressure) · myv матрамка (device used to apply pressure) · fi puristin (device used to apply pressure) · tk metbugat (printed media) · pl prasa (printed media) · fi lehdistö (printed media) · alt баспак (device used to apply pressure) · uz pressa (printed media) · alt пресса (printed media) · fr presse (printed media) · hi प्रेस (printed media) · sl tisk (printed media) · pl prasa drukarska (printing machine) · es prensa (device used to apply pressure) · gd preas (enclosed storage space) · ja プレス (weightlifting exercise) · grc ἶπος (device used to apply pressure) · fr pressoir (device used to apply pressure) · yi דרוק (printed media) · lt spauda (printed media) · nb presse (printed media) · id pers (printed media)