An instance of applying pressure; an instance ofpressing.
200410, “Maximum PC”, in(Please provide the book title or journal name), page25:
Connecting to the service is almost idiot proof and takes just a few buttonpresses.
2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, inThe Guardian[1]:
a slaloming winger putting lumpen defenders on their backsides, or even a sneaky centre-forward, using his boundless energy to lead thepress and force mistakes.
That books are pouring off the world’spresses at unprecedented rates is a fact often alluded to as a flood that is inundating libraries and the book trades.
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; thePress, 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 thatpress barons will only defy the mighty so far.
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,[…].
1974, Charles Gaines, George Butler,Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page22:
This is the fourth set of benchpresses. There will be five more; then there will be five sets ofpresses on an inclined bench[…].
(countable,golf,gambling) An additional bet in agolf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager in value, but begins even at the time of the bet.
He can even the match with apress.
2012, Gary McCord,Golf For Dummies:
The way apress 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, page181:
When a side is two or more points down in the match, they may request apress.
2009, Allison E. Smith,Ageing in Urban Neighbourhoods, page88:
The environmental comfort category is illustrative of cases in which there are low environmentalpresses matched against a number of personal competences.
Japanese:(for flowers)押し花器(おしばなき, oshibanaki),(for pants)ズボンプレス(zubon-puresu),ズボンプレッサー(zubon-puressā),パンツプレス(pantsu-puresu),パンツプレッサー(pantsu-puressā),(for juice, oil, etc. by squeezing)圧搾機(ja)(あっさくき, assakuki)
(transitive,sewing) To flatten a selected area of fabric using aniron with an up-and-down, not sliding, motion, so as to avoid disturbing adjacent areas.
1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift],Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.[…][Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London:[…]Benj[amin] Motte,[…],→OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan):
The two gentlemen who conducted me to the island werepressed by their private affairs to return in three days.
If we read but a very little, we naturally want topress 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.
1697,Virgil, “The First Book of theGeorgics”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis.[…], London:[…]Jacob Tonson,[…],→OCLC:
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