press
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Is press a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.Examples: "a flower press"
2. (uncountable) A crowd.Examples: "And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature."; "The press in the square grew. Something would happen now."; "Imagine the press of humanity in a crowded Parisian brasserie, circa the era when Lagerfeld would have been patronizing such joints."
3. (countable) A printing machine.Examples: "Stop the presses!"; "That books are pouring off the world’s presses at unprecedented rates is a fact often alluded to as a flood that is inundating libraries and the book trades."Synonyms: printing press
4. (uncountable, collective) The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).Examples: "according to a member of the press"; "This article appeared in the press."; "From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied."
5. (countable) A publisher.
6. (countable, especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).Examples: "Put the cups in the press."; "Put the ironing in the linen press."; "But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…]."Synonyms: closet, cupboard, pantry
verb (English)
1. (ambitransitive) To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
2. (transitive, mechanics, electronics) To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.Synonyms: strike, hit, depress
3. (transitive) To compress, squeeze.Examples: "to press fruit for the purpose of extracting the juice"Synonyms: thring, thrutch, astringe, compact, compactify, condense, densitize, pack
4. (transitive) To clasp, hold in an embrace.Examples: "With tears and ſmiles ſhe took her ſon, and preſs'd / Th' illuſtrious infant to her fragrant breaſt."Synonyms: hug
5. (transitive) To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.Examples: "to press cloth with a clothes-iron"; "to press a hat"
6. (transitive, sewing) 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.
Definition source: Wiktionary