press

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
2. (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
3. (uncountable) A crowd.
4. (countable) A printing machine.
5. (collective, uncountable) The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
6. (countable) A publisher.
7. (countable, especially) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
8. (countable) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
9. (countable) 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.
10. (countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
11. (countable, uncountable) A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
12. (countable, uncountable) In personology, any environmental factor that arouses a need in the individual.

Verb

1. (ambitransitive) To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
2. (transitive) To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.
3. (transitive) To compress, squeeze.
4. (transitive) To clasp, hold in an embrace.
5. (transitive) To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
6. (transitive) 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.
8. (obsolete, transitive) To weigh upon, oppress, trouble.
9. (transitive) To force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly.
10. To try to force (something upon someone).
11. (transitive) To hasten, urge onward.
12. (transitive) To urge, beseech, entreat.
13. (transitive) To lay stress upon.
14. (ambitransitive) To throng, crowd.
15. (obsolete, transitive) To print.
16. To force into service, particularly into naval service.

Conceptes

premsa

premsar

prémer

pressionar

pressió

empènyer

comprimir

armari

pitjar

planxar

prèmer

recolzar

sostenir

trepitjar

apretar

empenta

enfonsar

munió

aglomeració

impressora

🖨️

compressió

periodisme

esprémer

impulsió

premsatge

compactar

propulsar

impel·lir

xafar

esclafar

apinyar

espentar

coaccionar

exhortar

estretir

polsar

atapeir-se

tòrcul

premsa pública

gentada

turba

afonar

apressar

premsa d’estampar

atapeir

donar suport

ésser urgent

estintolar

insistència

insistir

Sinònims

squeeze

push

crush

compress

urge

force

iron

oppress

pressure

squash

pinch

coerce

compel

drive

massage

💆

clasp

apply pressure

jam

crowd

knead

stamp

insist

grasp

media

impel

print

throng

demand

printing house

printing press

press out

press down

flatten

stuff

cupboard

put

wring

tighten

rub

urge on

closet

printer

🖨️

claim

clamp

🗜️

newspaper

📰

mash

extract

jostle

entreat

thrust

Traduccions

presser

presse

prensa

Presse

drücken

stampa

appuyer

pressen

serrer

imprensa

drukken

pers

premere

pousser

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/pɹɛs/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Cognat amb francès: presse

Cognat amb anglès mitjà: thring

Cognat amb anglès antic: þring

Cognat amb francès: presser

Cognat amb anglès mitjà: thringen

Cognat amb anglès antic: þringan

Cognat amb anglès mitjà: thrasten

Cognat amb anglès antic: þrǣstan

Cognat amb anglès antic: þryscan

Cognat amb anglès antic: þȳwan

In summary

From Middle English presse (“throng, crowd, clothespress”), partially from Old English press (“clothespress”) (from Medieval Latin pressa) and from Old French presse (Modern French presse) from Old French presser (“to press”), from Latin pressāre, 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”)).

Frases

" They didn't have the printing press in those days ," the boy argued .