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Definition of Press

Press An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to maroon and to brownish black. To force into service, particularly into naval service; to impress. A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy. To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon by pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to crowd or compel by a gradual and continued exertion; to bear upon; to squeeze; to compress; as, we press the ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on which we repose; we press substances with the hands, fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd. To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of; to squeeze out, or express, from something. To squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus, in order to compact, make dense, or smooth; as, to press cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to press clothes. To embrace closely; to hug. To oppress; to bear hard upon. To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger. To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or over; to constrain; to force; to compel. To try to force (something upon some one); to urge or inculcate with earnestness or importunity; to enforce; as, to press divine truth on an audience. To drive with violence; to hurry; to urge on; to ply hard; as, to press a horse in a race. To exert pressure; to bear heavily; to push, crowd, or urge with steady force. To move on with urging and crowding; to make one's way with violence or effort; to bear onward forcibly; to crowd; to throng; to encroach. To urge with vehemence or importunity; to exert a strong or compelling influence; as, an argument presses upon the judgment. An apparatus or machine by which any substance or body is pressed, squeezed, stamped, or shaped, or by which an impression of a body is taken; sometimes, the place or building containing a press or presses. Specifically, a printing press. The art or business of printing and publishing; hence, printed publications, taken collectively, more especially newspapers or the persons employed in writing for them; as, a free press is a blessing, a licentious press is a curse. An upright case or closet for the safe keeping of articles; as, a clothes press. The act of pressing or thronging forward. Urgent demands of business or affairs; urgency; as, a press of engagements. A multitude of individuals crowded together; / crowd of single things; a throng. Related Definitions: Act, An, And, Any, Apparatus, Arboreal, Are, Argument, Arms, Art, As, Audience, Be, Bear, Black, Blessing, Body, Brownish, Building, Bushy, Business, By, Case, Closely, Closet, Clothes, Collectively, Commission, Compact, Compel, Compelling, Compress, Constrain, Containing, Contents, Continued, Cotton, Couch, Crowd, Crowded, Crowding, Curse, Dense, Distinction, Distress, Divine, Drive, Earnestness, East, Effort, Embrace, Employed, Encroach, Enforce, Especially, Exercise, Exert, Exertion, Express, Extract, Feet, For, Force, Forcibly, Forward, Free, From, Fur, Gradual, Ground, Hard, Heavily, Hence, Horse, Hug, Hunger, Hurry, Has, Importunity, Impress, Impression, In, Inculcate, Indian, Influence, Insectivore, Into, Ironing, Irresistible, Is, It, Judgment, Juice, Keeping, Licentious, Machine, Make, Maroon, Men, More, Move, Multitude, Naval, Navy, Of, On, One, Onward, Oppress, Or, Order, Out, Over, Paper, Particularly, Place, Ply, Powerful, Press, Pressed, Pressing, Pressure, Printed, Printing, Public, Publishing, Pulling, Push, Pushing, Race, Red, Repose, Rusty, Safe, Service, Shaped, Single, Smooth, Soft, Some, Something, Sometimes, Specifically, Squeeze, Squeezed, Stamped, Steady, Straiten, Strong, Substance, Suitable, Tail, Taken, The, Them, Throng, Thronging, Thrusting, To, Together, Truth, Try, Upon, Upright, Urge, Urgency, Urgent, Urging, Vehemence, Very, Violence, Walk, Want, Way, We, Weight, When, Which, With, Writing

Press Quotations The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it. Grace Kelly If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. Michel de Montaigne I would like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom. Nick Faldo I do not speak frequently or otherwise to the press. Kenneth Starr A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. Albert Camus

Press Translations press in Afrikaans is pers, druk press in Danish is presse, trykke press in Dutch is pers press in Finnish is puristaa press in French is pressons, presse, serre, pressent, pressez, serrer press in Italian is premere, pressare, premo press in Portuguese is imprensa press in Spanish is oprimir, prensa, prensar, apretar

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