From en.wiktionary.org:
[Press]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] From [en], partially from [en] (from [en]) and from [en] (Modern [fr])
from [en], from [en], from [la], past participle of [la]. Displaced native
[enm] (from [ang]).
**** Noun
[~]
1. An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing .
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=2004 | month=10 | title=Maximum PC | page=25
|text=Connecting to the service is almost idiot proof and takes just a few
button PRESSES.}}
1. * [en]
2. [en] A device used to apply pressure to an item.
3. [en] A crowd .
4. * [Luke]
5. * [en]
6. * [en]
7. [en] A printing machine.
8. * [en]
9. [en] The print -based media (both the people and the newspaper s).
10. * [chapter=22]
11. * [en]
12. [en] A publisher .
13. [en] An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet , cupboard ).
14. * [chapter=1]
15. [en] An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
16. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1974 | author=Charles Gaines; George Butler | title=Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding | page=22
|passage=This is the fourth set of benchpresses. There will be five more;
then there will be five sets of PRESSES on an inclined bench[nb...].}}
1. [en] 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.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2012 | author=Gary McCord | title=Golf For Dummies
|passage=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.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2014 | author=Nicolae Sfetcu | title=Sports Betting | page=181
|passage=When a side is two or more points down in the match, they may request
a PRESS.}}
1. [en] Pure , unfermented grape juice.
2. A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
3. * [IV]
4. [en] In personology , any environmental factor that arouses a need in the individual.
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2009 | author=Allison E. Smith | title=Ageing in Urban Neighbourhoods | page=88
|passage=The environmental comfort category is illustrative of cases in which
there are low environmental PRESSES matched against a number of personal
competences.}}
***** Synonyms
- [storage space] _See_ [EN] , [EN] , [EN]
***** Derived terms
{{col3|en |alternative press|all-court press|military press|press button|press
pack|press-on|silk press |bench press|cider press |close for press |fly press
|fruit press |go to press |press cake|monkey press|press money|press pass
|press gang |press-mark |press officer |press roll |press secretary |hot press
|screw press |shoulder press |stop the presses |trade press|mosquito
press|press cutting|turtle-press |trouser press |vanity press|clothes-press
|amateur press association|any press is good press|arming press|bad
press|bench-press|body press|brake press|Bramah press|chest press|clothes
press|cookie press|copying press|digital press|drill press|drop press|duck
press|free press|freedom of the press|French press|full court press|full-court
press|gang press|garlic press|good press|gutter press|hand press|hot from the
press|key press|leg press|long-press|mating press|overhead press|Pallof
press|perfecting press|permanent press|pill press|plate press|press
agency|press agent|press avail|press availability|press box|press brake|press
card|press conference|press corps|press gaggle|press gallery|press
junket|press kit|press office|press pool|press pot|press proof|press
relations|press release|press revise|press run|press time|press
wheel|press-up|printed press|read for press|rolling press|rotary press|rotary
printing press|run of press|science by press release|small press|stop
press|there is no such thing as bad press|wheel press|yellow press|hydraulic
press}}
***** Translations
[device used to apply pressure]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Erzya: [myv]
- Finnish: [fi] [active] , [fi] [passive]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek:
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [for flowers] [ja] , [for pants] [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [for juice, oil, etc. by squeezing] [ja]
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota] , [ota]
- Picard: [pcd]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] [industrial] , [ru] [for fruits and vegetables]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[printed media]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Crimean Tatar: [crh]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl] , [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[publisher]
[enclosed storage space]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Japanese: [ja] [cupboard] , [ja] [closet]
- Norman: [nrf] [Guernsey]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
[trans-bottom]
[printing machine]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[weightlifting exercise]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Norwegian:
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
From [en], from [en] (Modern [fr]) from [en], from _pressus_, past participle
of _premere_ "to press". Displaced native [enm] (from [ang]), [enm] (from
[ang]), [ang], [ang].
**** Verb
[past2=prest]
1. [en] To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
2. [en] To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.
3. [en] To compress , squeeze .
4. [en] To clasp , hold in an embrace.
5. * [title=Hector and Andromache]
6. [en] To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure , especially flatten or smooth .
7. [en] 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.
8. [en] To drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
9. [en] To weigh upon, oppress , trouble .
10. * [en]
11. [en] To force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly.
12. * [III]
13. To try to force (something upon someone).
14. * [page=27]
15. * [1]
16. [en] To hasten , urge onward.
17. [en] To urge , beseech , entreat .
18. * [en]
19. [en] To lay stress upon.
20. * [en]
21. [en] To throng , crowd .
22. [en] To print .
23. To force into service, particularly into naval service.
24. * [1]
***** Conjugation
[es]
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[to apply pressure]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Assamese: [as] , [as] , [as]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Basque: [eu]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Chuvash: [cv]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Gallurese: [sdn]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Javanese: [jv] , [jv]
- Kabuverdianu: [kea]
- Khiamniungan Naga: [kix]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Latin: [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malagasy: [mg]
- Malay: [ms]
- Mongolian:
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] [industrial]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Sardinian:
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Spanish: [es] [with a press machine] , [es] , [es] , [es] [with significant force] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [a trigger] , [es] , [es] [dated] , [es] , [es] [Latin America] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tamil: [ta] , [ta]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Tày: [tyz]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] , [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
[trans-bottom]
[to smooth cloth with an iron]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[to urge]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Old English: [ang]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[to indicate that a story is being printed]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Macedonian: [mk]
[trans-bottom]
[to press]
[checktrans-top]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Dutch: [nl]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
[trans-bottom]
*** See also
- [en] _(baking, laundry)_
- [en] _(printing)_
- [en]
*** References
- Entry for the imperfect and past participle (see https://web.archive.org/web/20090416145420/http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?action=search&word=prest&resource=Webster%27s&quicksearch=on) in Webster's dictionary
- [R:Century 1911]
- [code=50187940]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** German
*** Pronunciation
- [de]
*** Verb
[de]
1. [de]
2. [de] [de]
** Norwegian Bokmål
*** Etymology 1
From the verb [nb].
**** Noun
[nb-noun-n1]
1. pressure
2. [nb] a [en]
***** Related terms
- [nb]
*** Etymology 2
**** Verb
[nb]
1. [nb]
*** References
- [lang=nb]
- [press_1]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
*** Etymology
From the verb [nn].
*** Noun
[nn-noun-n1]
1. pressure
2. [nn] a [en]
**** Related terms
- [nn]
*** References
- [lang=nn]
** Spanish
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en] [exercise]
** Swedish
*** Pronunciation
- [sv]
*** Noun
[c]
1. a [en] ; a tool that applies pressure (to make things flat, to make juice)
2. a (printing) [en]
3. the press (newspapers, journalism as a branch of society)
4. (mental) pressure
5. a muscle exercise that applies pressure
**** Declension
[sv-infl-noun-c-ar]
**** Related terms
{{col3|sv |apelsinpress |benpress |blompress |brevpress |bänkpress |digelpress
|pressa |pressansvarig |pressattaché |pressbyrå |pressekreterare |pressfrihet
|pressgurka |presskonferens |pressmeddelande |pressning |pressombudsman
|pressråd |pressträff |presstöd |pressuppbåd |sedelpress |tryckpress
|vitlökspress }}
*** Further reading
- [R:svenska.se]
- [svetym]