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IPA: /prɛs/

Press is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in Press (eprss).

Definitions for Press

noun

1. an act of pressing; pressure.
2. the state of being pressed.
3. printed publications collectively, especially newspapers and periodicals.
4. all the media and agencies that print, broadcast, or gather and transmit news, including newspapers, newsmagazines, radio and television news bureaus, and wire services.
5. the editorial employees, taken collectively, of these media and agencies.
6. (often used with a plural verb) a group of news reporters, or of news reporters and news photographers:
7. the consensus of the general critical commentary or the amount of coverage accorded a person, thing, or event, especially in newspapers and periodicals (often preceded by good or bad):
8. printing press.
9. an establishment for printing books, magazines, etc.
10. the process or art of printing.
11. any of various devices or machines for exerting pressure, stamping, or crushing.
12. a wooden or metal viselike device for preventing a tennis or other racket from warping when not in use.
13. a pressing or pushing forward.
14. a crowding, thronging, or pressing together; collective force:
15. a crowd, throng, or multitude.
16. the desired smooth or creased effect caused by ironing or pressing:
17. pressure or urgency, as of affairs or business.
18. an upright case or other piece of furniture for holding clothes, books, pamphlets, etc.
19. Basketball. an aggressive form of defense in which players guard opponents very closely.
20. Weightlifting. a lift in which the barbell, after having been lifted from the ground up to chest level, is pushed to a position overhead with the arms extended straight up, without moving the legs or feet.
21. impressment into service, especially naval or military service.
22. a male given name.

Idioms

1. go to press, to begin being printed:
2. press the flesh, Informal. flesh (def 24).

verb (used with object)

1. to act upon with steadily applied weight or force.
2. to move by weight or force in a certain direction or into a certain position:
3. to compress or squeeze, as to alter in shape or size:
4. to weigh heavily upon; subject to pressure.
5. to hold closely, as in an embrace; clasp:
6. to flatten or make smooth, especially by ironing:
7. to extract juice, sugar, etc., from by pressure:
8. to squeeze out or express, as juice:
9. to beset or harass; afflict:
10. to trouble or oppress; put into a difficult position, as by depriving:
11. to urge or entreat strongly or insistently:
12. to emphasize or propound forcefully; insist upon:
13. to plead with insistence:
14. to urge onward; hasten:
15. to push forward.
16. to force into service, especially naval or military service; impress.
17. to make use of in a manner different from that intended or desired:

verb (used without object)

1. to manufacture (phonograph records, videodiscs, or the like), especially by stamping from a mold or matrix.
2. to exert weight, force, or pressure.
3. Weightlifting. to raise or lift, especially a specified amount of weight, in a press.
4. to iron clothing, curtains, etc.
5. to bear heavily, as upon the mind.
6. (of athletes and competitors) to perform tensely or overanxiously, as when one feels pressured or is determined to break out of a slump; strain because of frustration:
7. to compel haste:
8. to demand immediate attention.
9. to use urgent entreaty:
10. to push forward or advance with force, eagerness, or haste:
11. to crowd or throng.
12. Basketball. to employ a press.

Origin of Press

1175-1225; (noun) Middle English press(e) throng, company, trouble, machine for pressing, clothespress Old French, derivative of presser to press Latin pressāre, frequentative of premere (pas

Examples for Press

Crane did not press the point; he understood Porter's motives throughout.

But the most important point I want to make is about what the press does now.

She'll show up after the paper goes to press, if not sooner.

I don't quite know what a press agent is; but I'm sure I never had any.

His countrymen were the first to press steam into the active service of mankind.

At a press conference today with Scalise, Speaker Boehner again defended him.

Boyce was asked at a press conference if Polanco went peacefully.

Sadly, it appears the American press often doesn't need any outside help when it comes to censoring themselves.

This time it would be the biggest mistake for the Western press to repeat that—absolutely the biggest mistake.

I'm sportively pretending that I can press it back into shape.