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Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
- (vanhentunut) prease
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
- (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
- (uncountable) A crowd.
- (countable) A printing machine.
- (uncountable, collective) The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
- (countable) A publisher.
- (countable, especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
- (countable, weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
- (countable, golf, gambling) 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.
- (countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
- A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
- (psychology) In personology, any environmental factor that arouses a need in the individual.
Verbi
- (ambitransitive) To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
- (transitive, mechanics, electronics) To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.
- (transitive) To compress, squeeze.
- (transitive) To clasp, hold in an embrace.
- (transitive) To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
- (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.
- (transitive) To drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
- (transitive, obsolete) To weigh upon, oppress, trouble.
- (transitive) To force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly.
- To try to force (something upon someone).
- (transitive) To hasten, urge onward.
- (transitive) To urge, beseech, entreat.
- (transitive) To lay stress upon.
- (ambitransitive) To throng, crowd.
- (transitive, obsolete) To print.
- To force into service, particularly into naval service.
Esimerkit
- a flower press
- Stop the presses!
- 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.
- I would like some Concord press with my meal tonight.
- I have misused the king's press.
- to press fruit for the purpose of extracting the juice
- She took her son, and press'd
- The illustrious infant to her fragrant breast (Dryden, Illiad, VI. 178.)
- to press cloth with an 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. (Fletcher, Pilgrim, I. 2.)
- 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 pressed 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. (Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 35)
- 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. (M. Arnold, Literature and Dogma, Pref.)
- To peaceful peasant to the wars is pressed.
- Never underestimate the power of the press.
- The machine can do all this with the press of a button.
- To open the computer file, click on the menu item, or else press the return key.
- My clothes are wrinkled. I'll have to get them pressed at the cleaners.
- Press the doorbell button already!
- The wine growers press grapes to make wine.
- The crowd pressed in on her.
- Time is pressing.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | pressed | Partisiipin perfekti | prest (vanhahtava) |
| Partisiipin perfekti | press'd (vanhahtava) | Imperfekti | pressed |
| Imperfekti | prest (vanhahtava) | Imperfekti | press'd (vanhahtava) |
| Partisiipin preesens | pressing | Monikko | presses |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | presses | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | presseth (vanhahtava) |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | depresseth (vanhahtava) |