Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word PRESS

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Definitions of PRESS

1. A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
2. To try to force (something upon someone).
3. To force into service, particularly into naval service.
4. An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
5. (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
6. (uncountable) A crowd.
7. (countable) A printing machine.
8. (uncountable, collective) The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
9. (countable) A publisher.
10. (countable, especiallyinIrelandandScotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
11. (countable, weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
12. (countable, golf, gambling) 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.
13. (countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
14. (psychology) In personology, any environmental factor that arouses a need in the individual.
15. (ambitransitive) To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
16. (transitive, mechanics, electronics) To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.
17. (transitive) To compress, squeeze.
18. (transitive) To clasp, hold in an embrace.
19. (transitive) To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
20. (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.
21. (transitive) To drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
22. (transitive, obsolete) To weigh upon, oppress, trouble.
23. (transitive) To force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly.
24. (transitive) To hasten, urge onward.
25. (transitive) To urge, beseech, entreat.
26. (transitive) To lay stress upon.
27. (ambitransitive) To throng, crowd.
28. (transitive, obsolete) To print.
29. A surname.

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Examples of Using PRESS in a Sentence

• The International Association of Chess Press awarded him nine Chess Oscars (1973–77, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984).
• 133; Christine Kondoleon, Domestic and Divine: Roman Mosaics in the House of Dionysos (Cornell University Press, 1995), p.
• The Aldine Press was the printing office started by Aldus Manutius in 1494 in Venice, from which were issued the celebrated Aldine editions of the classics (Latin and Greek masterpieces, plus a few more modern works).
• Alarums and Excursions (A&E) is an amateur press association (APA) started in June 1975 by Lee Gold; publication continues to the present day.
• In addition to the government-owned newspaper and national radio network, there is an active, independent press (six weekly newspapers).
• Thackeray began his professional career as a cartoonist with the English-language daily, The Free Press Journal in Bombay, but he left the paper in 1960 to form his own political weekly, Marmik.
• Most of his life was spent in London, where he was born, but in 1939 he moved to Oxford with the university press for which he worked until his death.
• After the overthrow of the elected government by Jerry Rawlings in December 1981 the Provisional National Defence Council repealed the liberal media reforms of previous governments, abolished the Third Constitution and the Press Commission, and passed laws that prevented criticism of the government or its policies, dismissed editors critical of Rawlings or the provisional council, the Preventive Custody and Newspaper Licensing Law which allowed indefinite detention of journalists without trial, and the Newspaper Licensing Law which stifled private media development.
• Bok's work graced the pages of calendars and early fanzines, as well as dust jackets from specialty book publishers like Arkham House, Llewellyn, Shasta Publishers, and Fantasy Press.
• Hartmann Schedel (13 February 1440 – 28 November 1514) was a German historian, physician, humanist, and one of the first cartographers to use the printing press.
• The stories originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 1940 and 1950 and were then compiled into a single publication by Gnome Press in 1950, in an initial edition of 5,000 copies.
• Incunabula were produced before the printing press became widespread on the continent and are distinct from manuscripts, which are documents written by hand.
• Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press enabled a much faster rate of printing.
• None of the elections held in Kazakhstan have been considered free or fair by Western standards with issues noted including ballot tampering, multiple voting, harassment of opposition candidates and press censorship.
• Although the Iraqi government, which had first asserted a claim to rule Kuwait in 1938, recognized the borders with Kuwait in 1963 (based on agreements made earlier in the century), it continued to press Kuwait for control over Bubiyan and Warbah islands through the 1960s and 1970s.
• Mass media in Liberia include the press, radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
• He was known for his string of love affairs with actresses, models, and singers, and his private life was often covered in the international press.
• Film promotion generally includes press releases, advertising campaigns, merchandising, franchising, media, and interviews with the key people involved in making the film, such as the film's actors and directors.
• The New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD) is a single-volume dictionary of American English compiled by American editors at the Oxford University Press.
• The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.
• Its mandate includes issues such as arms control, the promotion of human rights, freedom of the press, and free and fair elections.
• The history of printers in publishing in Western Europe dates back to the mid-15th century with the invention of the printing press.
• A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink.
• Press Gang is a British children's television comedy-drama consisting of 43 episodes across five series that were broadcast from 1989 to 1993.
• By 1969 the popular press had taken notice of Western attempts to recreate the substance and sparked fears of a "polywater gap" between the United States and Soviet Union.

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