press
noun
1. the state of demanding notice or attention
- the press of business matters
Similar word(s): imperativeness, insistence, insistency, pressure
Definition categories: state, urgency
2. the print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines
Definition categories: communication
3. a machine used for printing
Definition categories: man–made, machine
4. a dense crowd of people
Definition categories: group, crowd
5. a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes
Similar word(s): closet, wardrobe
Definition categories: man–made, furniture
6. clamp to prevent wooden rackets from warping when not in use
Definition categories: man–made, clamp, clinch
7. any machine that exerts pressure to form or shape or cut materials or extract liquids or compress solids
Definition categories: man–made, machine
8. a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead
Definition categories: act, weightlift, weightlifting
9. the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure
- he gave the button a press
- he used pressure to stop the bleeding
- at the pressing of a button
Similar word(s): pressing, pressure
Definition categories: act, push, pushing
Sentences with press as a noun:
- a flower press
- Stop the presses!
- according to a member of the press; This article appeared in the press.
- Put the cups in the press. Put the ironing in the linen press.
- He can even the match with a press.
- I would like some Concord press with my meal tonight.
verb
1. exert pressure or force to or upon
- He pressed down on the boards
- press your thumb on this spot
Definition categories: contact, touch
2. force or impel in an indicated direction
Definition categories: communication, advise, counsel, rede
3. to be oppressive or burdensome
- Something pressed on his mind
Similar word(s): weigh
Definition categories: stative, count, matter, weigh
4. place between two surfaces and apply weight or pressure
- pressed flowers
Definition categories: contact, flatten
5. squeeze or press together
- she compressed her lips
Similar word(s): compact, compress, constrict, contract, squeeze
Definition categories: contact, tighten
6. crowd closely
- The crowds pressed along the street
Definition categories: motion, mass
7. create by pressing
- Press little holes into the soft clay
Definition categories: creation, create, make
8. be urgent
- This is a pressing problem
Definition categories: stative, be
9. 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
Similar word(s): agitate, campaign, crusade, fight, push
Definition categories: social, advertise, advertize, promote, push
10. press from a plastic
- press a record
Definition categories: creation, cast, mold, mould
11. make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby
Similar word(s): push
Definition categories: contact, force, push
12. press and smooth with a heated iron
- press your shirts
Similar word(s): iron
Definition categories: contact, press
13. lift weights
- This guy can press 300 pounds
Similar word(s): weightlift
Definition categories: competition, exercise
14. ask for or request earnestly
Similar word(s): adjure, beseech, bid, conjure, entreat
Definition categories: communication, plead
Sentences with press as a verb:
- to press fruit for the purpose of extracting the juice
- She took her son, and press'd
- to press cloth with an iron
- to press a hat
- to press a crowd back
- Alas, he weeps too! Something presses him
- to press the Bible on an audience
- to press a horse in a race
- God heard their prayers, wherein they earnestly pressed him for the honor of his great name. (Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 35)
- If we read but a very little, we naturally want to press it all; if we read a great deal, we are willing not to press the whole of what we read, and we learn what ought to be pressed and what not. (M. Arnold, Literature and Dogma, Pref.)