Word Finder - pressing

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To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.

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To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.

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• depress
• hit
• strike

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To compress, squeeze.

example

to press fruit for the purpose of extracting the juice

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• thring
• thrutch

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To clasp, hold in an embrace.

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• hug

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

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to press a hat

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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.

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

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to press a crowd back

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• thring
• thrutch

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To weigh upon, oppress, trouble.

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

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• impel

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To try to force (something upon someone).

example

to press the Bible on an audience

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• inculcate
• urge

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To hasten, urge onward.

example

to press a horse in a race

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To urge, beseech, entreat.

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To lay stress upon.

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• emphasize

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To throng, crowd.

synonyms

• thring
• thrutch

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To print.

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To force into service, particularly into naval service.

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• press-gang

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The application of pressure by a press or other means.

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A metal or plastic part made with a press.

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The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a press or an iron.

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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.

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The extraction of juice from fruit using a press.

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A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.

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Urgent insistence.

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Needing urgent attention.

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Insistent, earnest, or persistent.

Dean, who'd just returned from pressing election flesh, answered.

The most pressing concern is securing their own survival.

There is a factory for pressing cotton.

Pressing on the sides of the envelope to open the end, he blew into it, exposing the letter inside.

But are the more pressing wants satisfied now?

He laughed again, and she hung up, pressing the heels of her palms to her eyes.

It was if Annie bade him turn his thoughts beyond her long forgotten cares to the no less pressing concerns of today.

There are factories for ginning and pressing cotton.

It was no use pressing Fred further.

The quarterly conference held four times a century with the highest ranking station commanders was coming up soon, and he had more pressing issues to resolve before it launched.

Taran drew her closer, pressing her body between his and the alley.

She squeezed her eyes closed, pressing herself against him.

By the seizure and sale of Church lands, by th sale of state railways, by economy to the bone and on onc supreme occasion by an appeal to taxpayers to advance a years quota of the land-tax, he had met the most pressing engagements of that troublous period.

Both these pressing necessities, for a free outlet for merchandise and for a food-supplying area, drove Venice on to the mainland, and compelled her to initiate a policy which eventually landed her in the disastrous wars of Cambrai.

His enemy, Henry, who wished to be king, was pressing him hard.

In a single motion, she tugged open her robe and nightgown, baring both breasts, pressing Claire to her right side.

He was happy to be out of the dining room where Brandon Westlake and Pumpkin Green, both distraught over Billy Langstrom's death, were pressing Dean for details.

Pressing against him, she forced his lips down on hers.

Pressing her thumb to her door, she realized there was light lining the windows of the condo beside hers.

He turned her to face him, his hips pressing her back against the railing.

But it also appears that honeydew may be excreted by ordinary processes of over-turgescence pressing the liquid through water-pores, as in the tropical Caesalpinia, Calliandra, &c. That these exudations on leaves should afterwards serve as pabulum for Fungie.g.

The child has only to have its mother's nipple in its mouth in order to infer something very like the mutually pressing parts of its own mouth.

Towards both the south and west the Teutonic peoples seem to have been pressing the Celts for some considerable time, since we are told that the Helvetii had formerly extended as far as the Main, while another important Celtic tribe, the Volcae Tectosages, had occupied a still more remote position, which it is impossible now to identify.

The restoration of the Apostolic See to its original and proper seat was now possible; and the need for such a step was the more pressing, since residence in the castle at Avignon had become extremely precarious, owing to the ever-increasing confusion of French affairs.

It has several factories for ginning and pressing cotton - some on a large scale.

Devoted, however, as were the labours of Boniface and his disciples, all that he and they and the emperor Charlemagne after them achieved for the fierce untutored world of the 8th century seemed to have been done in vain when, in the 9th " on the north and north-west the pagan Scandinavians were hanging about every coast, and pouring in at every inlet; when on the east the pagan Hungarians were swarming like locusts and devastating Europe from the Baltic to the Alps; when on the south and south-east the Saracens were pressing on and on with their victorious hosts.

In delicate cases, such as seedling gloxinias and begonias, it is best to lift the little seedling on the end of a flattish pointed stick, often cleft at the apex, pressing this into the new soil where the plant is to be placed, and liberating it and closing the earth about it by the aid of a similar stick held in the other hand.

The money difficulty soon became more pressing.

Dreams of conquests and extension had long been abandoned, and the pressing question of the time was how to repel the persistent assaults of Persia and the barbarians upon the frontiers of the realm, and so retain the dominion inherited from the valour of the past.

A numerous floating population of labourers, attracted at certain periods by pressing work in the port, and afterwards left unemployed owing to the enormous fluctuations in the corn trade, is one of the features of Odessa.

Meantine the Karelians were pressing on the eastern Lapps, and in the course of the i ith century the rulers of Novgorod began to treat them as the Norsemen had treated their western brethren.

Firstly, his conception of " right " and " wrong " as " single ideas " incapable of definition or analysis - the notions " right," " fit," " ought," " duty," " obligation," being coincident or identical - at least avoids the confusions into which Clarke and Wollaston had been led by pressing the analogy between ethical and physical truth.

He was appointed on several occasions to committees of presbytery and assembly on pressing ecclesiastical business.

The most important place of trade is Malkapur - pop. (1901) 13,112 - with several factories for ginning and pressing cotton.

For more than two centuries they had remained prudently entrenched behind the earthworks that extended from Cologne to Ratisbon (Regensburg); but the intestine feuds which prevailed among the barbarians and were fostered by Rome, the organizatipn under bold and turbulent chiefs of the bands greedy for booty, the pressing forward on populations already settled of tribes in their rear; all this caused the Germanic invasion to filter by degrees across the frontier.

In the earliest times their most pressing foe was not the Arab or Berber so much as the Carolingian.

Though the measure was in itself repugnant to Maria Christina, the pressing needs of her government compelled her to consent when Juan Alvarez y Mendizabal (1790-1853), a minister of Jewish descent, forced on.

From 1875 to 1881, when not too much engrossed in more pressing affairs, his governments turned their attention to the reorganization of the finances, the resumption of payment of part of the debt coupon, and the consolidation of the colonial and imperial floating debts.

Canovas so fully comprehended the necessity of averting American intervention that he listened to the pressing demands of secretary Olney and of the American minister in Madrid, Hannis Taylor, an.d laid before the Cortes a bill introducing home rule in Cuba on a more liberal scale than Maura, Abarzuza and Sagasta had dared to suggest two years before.

In 1843 a German bee-keeper, Krechner by name, conceived the idea of first dipping fine linen into molten wax, then pressing the sheets so made between rollers, and thus forming a waxen midrib on which the bees would build their combs.

In May the Radicals who followed Mr Bright and Mr Chamberlain, and the Whigs who took their cue from Lord Hartington, decided to vote against the second reading of the Home Rule Bill, instead of allowing it to be taken and then pressing for modifications in committee, and on 7th June the bill was defeated by 343 to 3 1 3, 94 Liberal Unionists - as they were generally called - voting against the government.

Another smith tried to enter the doorway, pressing against the publican with his chest.

But just when he was clumsily creeping toward the door, that dreadful something on the other side was already pressing against it and forcing its way in.

The Emperor greeted the officers and the Semenov guard, and again pressing the old man's hand went with him into the castle.

But even more pressing than the call of the nation was the need of defending her own homes against the uprisings of the Indians within her borders.

By this time Welling- nees,?u1y25 ton had reached it from the allied left; reinforcements to August2, were pressing up on both sides, and about 12,000 allied 1813.

On this tube is a spring valve which is opened by pressing a lever.

The adaptation of the Gospel to the changing conditions of humanity is to-day a more pressing need than ever.

He held that in Spain the Catholic faith was not understood by the people, and that their ignorance was the pressing danger.

Generally speaking, the Transylvanians had only to appear, to have their demands promptly complied with; for these marauders had to be bought off because the emperor had more pressing business elsewhere.