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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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obtrude
English
Etymology
From Latin obtr?d? (“thrust off or against”), from ob- (“ob-”) + tr?d? (“thrust”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b?t?u?d/, /?b?t?u?d/
Verb
obtrude (third-person singular simple present obtrudes, present participle obtruding, simple past and past participle obtruded)
- (transitive) To proffer (something) by force; to impose (something) on someone or into some area. [from 16th c.]
- 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan:
- By which we may see, that they who are not called to Counsell, can have no good Counsell in such cases to obtrude.
- 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South:
- It was unusual with Margaret to obtrude her own subject of conversation on others; but, in this case, she was so anxious to prevent Mr. Thornton from feeling annoyance at the words he had accidentally overheard, that it was not until she had done speaking that she coloured all over with consciousness […]
- 2007, Andrew Martin, The Guardian, 16 Jul 2007:
- The prospect of people writing PhD theses that obtrude hard facts into the question of whether it's a) grim or b) nice up north is naturally worrying to all those of us who like to shout about those matters in the saloon bars of England.
- 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan:
- (intransitive) To become apparent in an unwelcome way, to be forcibly imposed; to jut in, to intrude (on or into). [from 16th c.]
- 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette:
- Sometimes I dreamed strangely of disturbed earth, and of hair, still golden and living, obtruded through the coffin-chinks.
- 1991, Roy Jenkins, A Life at the Centre:
- It was not only the police but the palace which obtruded on a home secretary's life.
- 2010, Colin Greenland, The Guardian, 7 Aug 2010:
- In such a very chronological book, though, small anachronisms do obtrude.
- 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette:
- (reflexive) To impose (oneself) on others; to cut in. [from 17th c.]
- 1934, Winston Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times, vol II:
- She obtruded herself upon the Queen; she protested her party views; she asked for petty favours, and attributed the refusals to the influence of Abigail.
- 2004, Marc Abrahams, The Guardian, 13 Jan 2004:
- This scarcity of knowledge also obtruded itself in 1998, when three scientists in Wales published a report called "What Sort of Men Take Garlic Preparations?"
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 121:
- As 1968 began to ebb into 1969, however, and as “anticlimax” began to become a real word in my lexicon, another term began to obtrude itself.
- 1934, Winston Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times, vol II:
Derived terms
- obtruder
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- debtour, doubter, outbred, redoubt, turboed
Latin
Verb
obtr?de
- second-person singular present active imperative of obtr?d?
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