Press

Connecting to the service is almost idiot proof and takes just a few button presses.

a slaloming winger putting lumpen defenders on their backsides, or even a sneaky centre-forward, using his boundless energy to lead the press and force mistakes.

a flower press

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.

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.

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.

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.

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,[…].

This is the fourth set of benchpresses. There will be five more; then there will be five sets of presses on an inclined bench[…].

He can even the match with a press.

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.

When a side is two or more points down in the match, they may request a press.

I would like some Concord press with my meal tonight.

I have misused the king's press.

The environmental comfort category is illustrative of cases in which there are low environmental presses matched against a number of personal competences.

to press fruit for the purpose of extracting the juice

With tears and ſmiles ſhe took her ſon, and preſs'd / Th' illuſtrious infant to her fragrant breaſt.

to press cloth with a clothes-iron

to press a hat

to press a crowd back

He turns from us; / Alas, he weeps too! Something presses him / He would reveal, but dare not. Sir, be comforted.

The two gentlemen who conducted me to the island were pressed by their private affairs to return in three days.

to press the Bible on an audience

He press'd a letter upon me within this hour.

Be sure to press upon him every motive.

to press a horse in a race

God heard their prayers, wherein they earnestly pressed him for the honor of his great name.

If we read but a very little, we naturally want to press it all; if we read a great deal, we are willing not to press the whole of what we read, and we learn what ought to be pressed and what not.

The peaceful peasant to the wars is press'd.