press

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Conceptos

prensa

apretar

presionar

oprimir

prensar

pulsar

empujar

armario

presión

empuje

imprenta

apremiar

entrecoger

estrechar

estrujar

comprimir

pesar

muchedumbre

ahincar

aplastar

planchar

detonar por presión

pisar

radio

📻

rogar

ropero

sostener

suplicar

televisión

📺

templar

tocar

turba

urgir

apiñar

apoyarse

apretón

apretura

chafar

closet

clóset

coaccionar

cobrar

compactar

de prensa

estirajar

hollar

imperiosidad

instar

machucar

prensado

Sinónimos

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

Traducciones

presser

presse

Presse

drücken

stampa

appuyer

pressen

drukken

imprensa

serrer

pers

premere

pousser

comprimir

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/pɹɛs/

Etimología (Inglés)

Cognado con francés: presse

Cognado con inglés medio: thring

Cognado con inglés antiguo: þring

Cognado con francés: presser

Cognado con inglés medio: thringen

Cognado con inglés antiguo: þringan

Cognado con inglés medio: thrasten

Cognado con inglés antiguo: þrǣstan

Cognado con inglés antiguo: þryscan

Cognado con inglés antiguo: 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”)).

Oraciones

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

"No tenían la imprenta en esos días", argumentó el niño.