different between drove vs press

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d???v/
  • Rhymes: -??v
• (General American) IPA: /d?o?v/
• (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) IPA^(key): /d??o?v/ (Used in some regions of the US, particularly the Midwest)

Etymology 1

From Middle English drove, drof, draf, from Old English dr?f (“action of driving; a driving out, expulsion; drove, herd, band; company, band; road along which cattle are driven”), from Proto-Germanic *draib? (“a drive, push, movement, drove”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?reyb?- (“to drive, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?er- (“to support”). Cognate with Scots drave, dreef (“drove, crowd”), Dutch dreef (“a walkway, wide road with trees, drove”), Middle High German treip (“a drove”), Swedish drev (“a drive, drove”), Icelandic dreif (“a scattering, distribution”). More at drive.

Noun

drove (plural droves)

1. A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
2. (usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
3. (collective) A group of hares.
4. A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven.
5. A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
6. A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
7. The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.

Derived terms

• in droves

Translations

Etymology 2

From earlier drave, from Middle English drave, draf, from Old English dr?f, first and third person singular indicative preterite of dr?fan (“to drive”).

Verb

drove

1. simple past tense of drive

drove (third-person singular simple present droves, present participle droving, simple past and past participle droved)

1. To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
2. (transitive) To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Devor, Dover, Dovre, Voder, roved, vedro, vored

Middle English

Adjective

drove

1. Alternative form of drof

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)

1. (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.

2. (countable) A printing machine.

   Synonym: printing press

3. (uncountable, collective) The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
4. (countable) A publisher.
5. (countable, especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
6. (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 […].

7. (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.

8. (countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.

9. A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.

   Synonym: press-gang
10. (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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12. (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.

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)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
2. (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

3. (transitive) To compress, squeeze.

   Synonyms: thring, thrutch; see also Thesaurus:compress

4. (transitive) To clasp, hold in an embrace.

   Synonym: hug
5. (transitive) To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.

6. (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.
7. (transitive) To drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.

   Synonyms: thring, thrutch

8. (transitive, obsolete) To weigh upon, oppress, trouble.
9. (transitive) To force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly.

   Synonym: impel
10. To try to force (something upon someone).

    Synonyms: urge, inculcate
11. (transitive) To hasten, urge onward.

12. (transitive) To urge, beseech, entreat.
13. (transitive) To lay stress upon.

    Synonym: emphasize
14. (transitive, intransitive) To throng, crowd.

    Synonyms: thring, thrutch; see also Thesaurus:assemble

15. (transitive, obsolete) To print.
16. 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

1. singular imperative of pressen
2. (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)

1. pressure
2. (weightlifting) a press

Related terms

• trykk

Etymology 2

Verb

press

1. 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)

1. pressure
2. (weightlifting) a press

Related terms

• trykk

References

• “press” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Noun

press m (plural press)

1. press (exercise)

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

press c

1. a press; a tool that applies pressure (to make things flat, to make juice)
2. a (printing) press

   stoppa pressarna

   stop the presses

3. the press (newspapers, journalism as a branch of society)
4. (mental) pressure
5. a muscle exercise that applies pressure

Declension

Related terms

• apelsinpress
• bänkpress
• benpress
• blompress
• brevpress
• pressa
• pressbyrå
• pressfrihet
• pressning
• tryckpress