press
/pɹɛs/ noun B1- An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
- A device used to apply pressure to an item. · a flower press· a cheese press
- A crowd.
- A printing machine. · Stop the presses!
- The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers). · according to a member of the press· This article appeared in the press.
- A publisher.
- An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard). · Put the cups in the press.· Put the ironing in the linen press.
- An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
Plural presses
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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As far as I know, there have been only three accounts in the public press: that in the Journal de Genève on May 6th, 1891, the Reuter’s despatch in the English papers on May 7th, and finally the recent letter to which I have alluded.
When Dorothy, who was an orphan, first came to her, Aunt Em had been so startled by the child’s laughter that she would scream and press her hand upon her heart whenever Dorothy’s merry voice reached her ears; and she still looked at the little girl with wonder that she could find anything to laugh at.
Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it?
The press would be furious if it did.
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