Press

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.

   “Connecting to the service is almost idiot proof and takes just a few button presses.”

2. isim A device used to apply pressure to an item.

   “a flower press”

3. isim A crowd.

   “And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature.”

4. isim A printing machine.

   “Stop the presses!”

5. isim The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).

   “according to a member of the press”

6. isim A publisher.
7. isim An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).

   “Put the cups in the press.”

8. isim An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.

   “This is the fourth set of benchpresses. There will be five more; then there will be five sets of presses on an inclined bench[…].”

9. isim 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.

   “He can even the match with a press.”

10. isim Pure, unfermented grape juice.

    “I would like some Concord press with my meal tonight.”

11. isim A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.

    “I have misused the king's press.”

12. isim In personology, any environmental factor that arouses a need in the individual.

    “The environmental comfort category is illustrative of cases in which there are low environmental presses matched against a number of personal competences.”

13. fiil To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
14. fiil To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.
15. fiil To compress, squeeze.

    “to press fruit for the purpose of extracting the juice”

16. fiil To clasp, hold in an embrace.

    “With tears and ſmiles ſhe took her ſon, and preſs'd / Th' illuſtrious infant to her fragrant breaſt.”

17. fiil To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.

    “to press cloth with a clothes-iron”

18. fiil 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.
19. fiil To drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.

    “to press a crowd back”

20. fiil To weigh upon, oppress, trouble.

    “He turns from us; / Alas, he weeps too! Something presses him / He would reveal, but dare not. Sir, be comforted.”

21. fiil To force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly.

    “The two gentlemen who conducted me to the island were pressed by their private affairs to return in three days.”

22. fiil To try to force (something upon someone).

    “to press the Bible on an audience”

23. fiil To hasten, urge onward.

    “to press a horse in a race”

24. fiil To urge, beseech, entreat.

    “God heard their prayers, wherein they earnestly pressed him for the honor of his great name.”

25. fiil To lay stress upon.

    “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.”

26. fiil To throng, crowd.
27. fiil To print.
28. fiil To force into service, particularly into naval service.

    “The peaceful peasant to the wars is press'd.”

29. özel isim A surname.