press release (noun) press secretary (noun) press stud (noun) bench press (noun) full–court press (noun) hard–pressed (adjective) printing press (noun) flesh (noun) luck (noun) panic button (noun) 1 press / ˈ prɛs/ noun plural presses Britannica Dictionary definition of PRESS 1 a [noncount] : newspapers, magazines, and radio and ...
The meaning of PRESS is a crowd or crowded condition : throng. How to use press in a sentence.
PRESS meaning: 1. to push something firmly, often without causing it to move permanently further away from you…. Learn more.
If you press something or press down on it, you push hard against it with your foot or hand. The engine stalled. He pressed the accelerator hard.
to flatten or make smooth, esp. by ironing: to press clothes; to press flowers in the leaves of a book. to extract juice, sugar, etc., from by pressure: to press grapes.
Define press. press synonyms, press pronunciation, press translation, English dictionary definition of press. v. pressed , press ing , press es v. tr. 1. a. To exert steady weight or force against: an indentation where the rock pressed the ground. b. To move by...
Displaced native Middle English thring (“press, crowd, throng”) (from Old English þring (“a press, crowd, anything that presses or confines”)).
Middle English pressen (“to crowd, thring, press" ), from Old French presser (“to press" ) (Modern French presser) from Latin pressāre from pressus, past participle of premere "to press".
"He placed his tennis racket in the press to maintain its shape " A weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead