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press
  1. (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
  2. (countable) A printing machine.
  3. (uncountable) A collective term for the print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
  4. (countable) A publisher.
  5. (countable, especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
  6. (countable, weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
  7. (countable, wagering) 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.
  8. (countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
  9. A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
  10. (obsolete) A crowd.
  11. Synonyms:
  12. Examples:
    1. “The mill of rumors reported by the press about her purported activities would result in growing hostility toward her.”
      “As part of my professional life in education, I was involved in running a small university press, which published academic books.”
      “Early printers used a wooden press, types, paper, and ink.”
pressing
  1. The application of pressure by a press or other means.
  2. A metal or plastic part made with a press.
  3. The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a press or an iron.
  4. A memento preserved by pressing, folding, or drying between the leaves of a flat container, book, or folio. Usually done with a flower, ribbon, letter, or other soft, small keepsake.
  5. The extraction of juice from fruit using a press.
  6. A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.
  7. Urgent insistence.
  8. Synonyms:
pressure
  1. A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
  2. A contrasting force or impulse of any kind
  3. Distress.
  4. Urgency
  5. (obsolete) Impression; stamp; character impressed.
  6. (physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “The mass loaded on the piston exerts constant pressure on the gas while it expands.”
      “Angry parents say the delay has increased the pressure on them at an already stressful time.”
      “We are facing increasing pressure from shareholders demanding profits and wanting to see readership figures.”
prest
  1. (rare) A payment of wages in advance
  2. A loan or advance (of money)
  3. A tax or duty
  4. (obsolete) A sum of money paid to a soldier or sailor upon enlistment
  5. (law) A duty in money formerly paid by the sheriff on his account in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands.
pressman
  1. someone who operates a printing press
  2. a journalist or newspaper reporter
  3. one who pressgangs people into naval service
  4. one who presses clothes
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “The pressman diligently worked through the night, uncovering key details and crafting a compelling news story for tomorrow's edition.”
      “He is listed as a pressman at Brown and Bigelow, a printing factory, with a wife named Evelyn.”
      “A pressman from the paper noticed it and called the newsroom, but it was too late to pull the illustration.”
pressurage
  1. (archaic) pressure
  2. The juice of the grape extracted by the press.
  3. A fee paid for the use of a winepress.
pressurization
  1. The act or process of increasing pressure within a volume of space.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Using our new worst-case scenario, we faced an 800-mile, two-engine transit, at 10,000 feet, and unable to maintain pressurization.”
      “Practical cryogenics however, is a monumental engineering task and pressurization is bulky, inefficient and potentially dangerous.”
      “We are able to maintain precise control over temperature, humidity and pressurization.”
pressurisation
  1. (British spelling) The act or process of increasing pressure within a space.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Unfortunately, he neglected to run through the checklist and consequently the plane took off without pressurisation.”
      “At 35,000 ft, a common cruising altitude for many commercial flights, people will survive for a maximum of 50 seconds without cabin pressurisation.”
      “Install a new main Automatic Control panel in the boilerhouse to control the boilers, pumps and pressurisation unit.”
pressperson
  1. A member of the press; a journalist.
pression
  1. (rare) Pressure or an act of applying pressure.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Close the mouth, and blow through the nose, because this way disminishes the blow pression and the chances to throw up.”
      “Only after the trocar is introducted realizing a rotatory movements of the hand with a controlled pression rather than appling an uncontrolled effort on the straigth direction.”
      “Therefore, struggling Ukrainian proletarians will be bound hand and foot, send to the Ukrainian and Austro-German bourgeoisies, momently freed of any revolutionary pression.”
pressurizer
  1. A person or thing that pressurizes.
pressful
  1. Enough to fill a press.
pressuring
pressurisations
  1. plural of pressurisation
pressurizations
presspeople
  1. plural of pressperson
presspersons
  1. plural of pressperson
pressurizers
  1. plural of pressurizer
pressurages
  1. plural of pressurage
pressurings
  1. plural of pressuring
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It is absolutely necessary that the individual possess a strong sense of religion, of the very essence of religion, to stop these pressurings on the part of the church.”
pressmen
  1. plural of pressman
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “For all the players, the day ended with the inevitable scramble through the waiting hordes of pressmen to the safety of their cars.”
      “Disguised and escorted, I was led through a mass of waiting pressmen and reporters, and shown into some offices within the building.”
      “Four bare-chested pressmen labor in a small room with a huge collotype printing press.”
pressfuls
  1. plural of pressful
pressings
  1. plural of pressing
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Early pressings of Working for the Man include a second disc of B-sides and rarities that greatly enhances the collection's appeal.”
      “This season we have picked enough for one pressing every week, sometimes two pressings.”
      “It is the largest single location of pressings and full systems engineering in Europe.”
pressions
  1. plural of pression
pressures
  1. plural of pressure
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “At least in quadrupeds, the weight of the lung is only a minor determinant of nonuniform transpulmonary pressures and alveolar volumes.”
      “Clearly, this was a guy, with all the impending pressures, he wanted out of that marriage.”
      “This is distinct from the notion of selection deriving from pressures exerted by the biotic and abiotic environment inhabited by the organism.”
prests
  1. plural of prest
presses
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