Word Finder - press

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A device used to apply pressure to an item.

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a flower press

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A printing machine.

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Stop the presses!

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• printing press

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

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This article appeared in the press.

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A publisher.

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An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).

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Put the cups in the press.

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

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(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.

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He can even the match with a press.

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Pure, unfermented grape juice.

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I would like some Concord press with my meal tonight.

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

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• press-gang

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A crowd.

One side of her wanted to press on until she got some answers.

Dean didn't press the point.

He was about to press her to make an actual vow when she sighed.

He didn't press her to leave again.

I'm not afraid of him, just because he's twelve feet tall and can bench press me with his toes.

An Edinburgh edition was issued from the press of Thomas Ruddiman in 1710.

As much as Dean wanted to press his guest on the possibility that the bones were those of her father, he realized such a question was tasteless and inappropriate.

The wall at her back gave her support to press closer to him, and when he freed one hand, she used it to grasp his neck and pull his lips down harder on her own.

I was surprised the FBI didn't press us on some of these more prominent cases.

Sarah almost started to press the issue, but thought better of it.

Though written before the Descriptio it had not been prepared for press at the time of his death, but was published by his son Robert in 1619 under the title Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Constructio.

The way in which the taxes press on the poor may be shown by the number of small proprietors sold up owing to inability to pay the,.

She packed, repacked, pressed, made the butler's assistant and Petya--whom she had drawn into the business of packing--press on the lid, and made desperate efforts herself.

Press, Vasilich, press hard! she cried.

The million dollar hunt for the Psychic Tipster was flooding the press; I suppose as intended.

Jennifer didn't press them on the specifics of the evidence.

She put the heel of her hand on the place where blood was coming out and used her other hand to press down hard.

We have eliminated debtors prisons, developed the idea of "women and children first," stigmatized child labor, made accommodations for conscientious objectors, widely adopted freedom of speech and the press and freedom of assembly, and a hundred more.

Natasha's grief began to be overlaid by the impressions of daily life, it ceased to press so painfully on her heart, it gradually faded into the past, and she began to recover physically.

That is all I have to say, and concealing his unvarying emotion he would press his cheek against his daughter's and move away.

Suddenly she sat up with unaccustomed swiftness, glanced vacantly around her, and seeing Natasha began to press her daughter's head with all her strength.

Should I press him?

He mentioned the term kidnapping, but of course being the saint he is he wouldn't press charges against his wife who according to him was just temporarily disturbed.

Dean agreed she was probably right and didn't press the sub­ject.

Winston didn't press for details—thankful­ly—and Dean made no mention of taking time for an off-duty trip to Scranton.

He seemed at first inclined to press a quarrel with France over the Burgundian frontier, but the refusal of Pope Boniface VIII.

In 1760 the elder Rousseau established here the famous press of the Encyclopaedists.

He did not press the pursuit far, although the great king's camp with his harem fell into his hands.

He also defended the privileges of the Irish Protestants in the press, and especially in the Freeman's Journal, founded in 1763.

His contributions to the press, and his Addresses to the Lord Mayor and other political pamphlets made him one of the most popular writers in Ireland of his time, although he was anticatholic in his prejudices, and although, as Lecky observes,.

Much general comment on Moses Mendelssohn appeared in the press of the world on occasion of the centenary of the birth of the composer Mendelssohn in 1909.

Another reason assigned by the committee appointed by the Treasury in 1875 " to investigate the causes of the increased cost of the telegraphic service since the acquisition of the telegraphs by the state " is the loss on the business of transmitting Press messages, which has been estimated as at least £300,000 a year.

Subscribers to exchanges may also make arrangements to have all telegrams (except Press telegrams) ad - dressed to them delivered by telephone instead of messenger.

On more than one occasion Bismarck had maintained direct relations with the chiefs of the Left, and had in I87o worked to prevent a FrancoItalian alliance by encouraging the party of action to press for the occupation of Rome.

At the beginning of August 1881 the Austrian press mooted the idea of a visit from King Humbert to the emperor Francis Joseph.

Count di Robilant, anxious that Italy should not seem to beg a smile from the central Powers, advised Mancini to receive with caution the suggestions of the Austrian press.

Seeing the hesitation of the Italian government, the Austrian and German semi-official press redoubled their efforts to bring about the visit.

But the effect of the German press campaign could not be effaced in a day.

At the request of Kalnky, Mancini defined his proposal in a memorandum, but the illness of himself and Depretis, combined with an untoward discussion in the Italian press on the failure of the Austrian emperor to return in Rome King Humberts visit to Vienna, caused negotiations to drag.

When a train is running round a curve the centrifugal force which comes into play tends to make its wheel-flanges press against the outer rail, or even to capsize it.

It was largely by his efforts, both in the press and in tours through the country, that the Age of Consent Act was passed in 1891.

Many other inquiries conducted by him might be mentioned, and some idea may be gained of his scientific activity from the fact that a selection only from his papers, published by the Cambridge University Press, fills three large volumes.

In 1892, at Warwick, the competitions related to ploughs - single furrow (a) for light land, (b) for strong land, (c) for press drill and broad-cast sowing; two-furrow; three-furrow; digging (a) for light land, (b) for heavy land; and one-way ploughs.

One of his first tasks was to send his treatise on the Subjection of Women (written 1861, published 1869, many editions) through the press.

In 1692 the first permanent and successful printing press was established; in 170 4 the first newspaper in America, the Boston News-Letter, which was published weekly until 1776.

In no country, perhaps, has the press exercised a more direct and powerful influence upon government than in Brazil, and in no other country can there be found so high a percentage of journalists in official life.

Constable, the Ballantyne Press, Morrison & Gibb, Turnbull & Spears, and others, admirably maintain the traditional reputation of the Edinburgh press.

The poem appears, on the authority of Laing, to have been printed at the press of Chepman & Myllar about 1508, but the fragments which Laing saw are not extant.

Herculano was denounced from the pulpit and the press for his lack of patriotism and piety, and after bearing the attack for some time his pride drove him to reply.

However, though he conducted a political propaganda in the newspaper press in his early days, Herculano never exercised much influence in politics.