different between besiege vs press
besiege
English
Etymology
From Middle English besegen, bisegen, equivalent to be- (“around, about”) +? siege.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??si?d??/
- Rhymes: -i?d?
- Hyphenation: be?siege
Verb
besiege (third-person singular simple present besieges, present participle besieging, simple past and past participle besieged)
- (transitive) To beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer.
- (transitive, figuratively) To beleaguer, to vex, to lay siege to, to beset.
- to assail or ply, as with requests or demands.
Translations
German
Verb
besiege
- inflection of besiegen:
- first-person singular present
- singular imperative
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
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press
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /p??s/
- Rhymes: -?s
Etymology 1
Middle English presse (“throng, crowd, clothespress”), partially from Old English press (“clothespress”) (from Medieval Latin pressa) and partially from Old French presse (Modern French presse) from Old French presser (“to press”), from Latin press?re, from pressus, past participle of premere (“to press”). Displaced native Middle English thring (“press, crowd, throng”) (from Old English þring (“a press, crowd, anything that presses or confines”)).
Noun
press (countable and uncountable, plural presses)
- (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
- (countable) A printing machine.
- Synonym: printing press
- (uncountable, collective) The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
- (countable) A publisher.
- (countable, especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
- (countable, weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
- 1974, Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, p.22:
- 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, p.22:
- (countable, wagering) 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.
- (countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
- A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
- Synonym: press-gang
- (obsolete) A crowd.
- And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature.
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. - (psychology) In personology, any environmental factor that arouses a need in the individual.
- 2009, Allison E. Smith, Ageing in Urban Neighbourhoods (page 88)
- 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)
Synonyms
- (storage space): See closet, cupboard, pantry
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Middle English pressen (“to crowd, thring, press”), from Old French presser (“to press”) (Modern French presser) from Latin press?re, from pressus, past participle of premere "to press". Displaced native Middle English thringen (“to press, crowd, throng”) (from Old English þringan (“to press, crowd”)), Middle English thrasten (“to press, force, urge”) (from Old English þr?stan (“to press, force”)), Old English þryscan (“to press”), Old English þ?wan (“to press, impress”).
Verb
press (third-person singular simple present presses, present participle pressing, simple past and past participle pressed or prest)
- (transitive, intransitive) To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
- (transitive, mechanics, electronics) To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.
- Synonyms: strike, hit, depress
- (transitive) To compress, squeeze.
- Synonyms: thring, thrutch; see also Thesaurus:compress
- (transitive) To clasp, hold in an embrace.
- Synonym: hug
- (transitive) To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
- (transitive, sewing) 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.
- (transitive) To drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
- Synonyms: thring, thrutch
- (transitive, obsolete) To weigh upon, oppress, trouble.
- (transitive) To force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly.
- Synonym: impel
- To try to force (something upon someone).
- Synonyms: urge, inculcate
- (transitive) To hasten, urge onward.
- (transitive) To urge, beseech, entreat.
- (transitive) To lay stress upon.
- Synonym: emphasize
- (transitive, intransitive) To throng, crowd.
- Synonyms: thring, thrutch; see also Thesaurus:assemble
- (transitive, obsolete) To print.
- To force into service, particularly into naval service.
- Synonym: press-gang
Derived terms
- press charges
- press on
Translations
See also
- hot press (baking, laundry)
- hot off the press (printing)
- press down
References
- Entry for the imperfect and past participle in Webster's dictionary
- press in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “press”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000
Anagrams
- ERSPs, RESPs, SERPs, Spers
German
Verb
press
- singular imperative of pressen
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of pressen
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From the verb presse
Noun
press n (definite singular presset, indefinite plural press, definite plural pressa or pressene)
- pressure
- (weightlifting) a press
Related terms
- trykk
Etymology 2
Verb
press
- imperative of presse
References
- “press” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “press_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From the verb presse
Noun
press n (definite singular presset, indefinite plural press, definite plural pressa)
- pressure
- (weightlifting) a press
Related terms
- trykk
References
- “press” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Spanish
Noun
press m (plural press)
- press (exercise)
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
press c
- a press; a tool that applies pressure (to make things flat, to make juice)
- a (printing) press
- stoppa pressarna
- stop the presses
- stoppa pressarna
- the press (newspapers, journalism as a branch of society)
- (mental) pressure
- a muscle exercise that applies pressure
Declension
Related terms
- apelsinpress
- bänkpress
- benpress
- blompress
- brevpress
- pressa
- pressbyrå
- pressfrihet
- pressning
- tryckpress
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