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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
"I pressed him to finish his studies"; - urge, urge on, exhort - To be oppressive or burdensome
"Something pressed on his mind"; - weigh - Place between two surfaces and apply weight or pressure
"pressed flowers" - Bring together or compress
"she pressed her lips"; - compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract - Crowd closely
"The crowds pressed along the street" - Create by pressing
"Press little holes into the soft clay" - Be urgent
"This is a pressing problem" - 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
"She is pressing for women's rights"; - crusade, fight, campaign, push, agitate - Make from plastic by moulding or to a shape or pattern
"press a record"; - press out - Make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby
"'Now press hard,' said the doctor to the woman"; - push - Apply pressure and smooth with a heated iron
"press your shirts"; - iron, iron out - Lift weights
"This guy can press 300 pounds"; - weight-lift, weightlift - Ask for or request earnestly
- bid, beseech, entreat, adjure, conjure Noun: press pres- 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 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 - A dense crowd of people
- crush, jam - The state of demanding notice or attention
"the press of business matters"; - imperativeness, insistence, insistency, pressure
Derived forms: presses, pressing, pressed Type of: advertise, advertize [US, non-standard], advise, article of furniture, be, cast, clamp, clinch, counsel, count, create, crowd, exercise, flack [N. Amer, informal], flatten, flatten out, force, furniture, machine, make, mass, matter, mold [N. Amer], mould [Brit, Cdn], pancake, piece of furniture, plead, print media, promote, push, pushing, rede [archaic], tighten, touch, urgency, weigh, weightlift, weightlifting, work out Encyclopedia: Press, Joseph |