press
suomi-englanti sanakirjapress englannista suomeksi
puristus
painella
punnertaa
penkki
kaappi, komero
ahdistaa, painostaa
painavuus
paino, painokone
puristaa
pusertaa
prässätä
painaa
silittää
puristin
pakottaa
tungeksia, tunkea
prässi
vaatia
väenpaljous
työntää
lehdistö
Verbi
Substantiivi
press englanniksi
An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
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(quote-journal)
A device used to apply pressure to an item.
(ux)
A printing machine.
(syn)
(RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp)
(quote-journal)| author=Lexington| title=Keeping the mighty honest| passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
A publisher.
(RQ:Jefferies Amateur Poacher)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,(nb..).
An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
1974, Charles Gaines & George Butler, ''Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding'', p.22:
- This is the fourth set of benchpresses. There will be five more; then there will be five sets of presses on an inclined bench(nb..).
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.
2012, Gary McCord, ''Golf For Dummies''
- The way a ''press'' works is, say you're two down after six holes; you can then start another bet (in effect another match) from the seventh hole, for the same amount, starting all square on the seventh tee.
2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, ''Sports Betting'' (page 181)
- When a side is two or more points down in the match, they may request a press.
Pure, unfermented grape juice.
A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-1)
A crowd.
(RQ:King James Version)
In personology, any environmental factor that arouses a need in the individual.
2009, Allison E. Smith, ''Ageing in Urban Neighbourhoods'' (page 88)
- The environmental comfort category is illustrative of cases in which there are low environmental presses matched against a number of personal competences.
To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.
(RQ:Dryden Iliad)
To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
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.
To drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
(quote-book)
(RQ:Swift Gulliver's Travels)
To try to force (something upon someone).
(RQ:Dryden Spanish Fryar)
(RQ:Addison Cato)
To lay stress upon.
To print.
To force into service, particularly into naval service.
(RQ:Dryden Georgics)
(verb form of)
(verb form of)
(l)
a (l)
(imperative of)
press (gloss)
a press; a tool that applies pressure (to make things flat, to make juice)
a (printing) press
''stoppa pressarna''
stop the presses
the press (newspapers, journalism as a branch of society)
(mental) pressure
a muscle exercise that applies pressure