press – English noun declension

English noun forms of press

Noun: press
Singularpress
Pluralpresses

Sample Sentences

  • Connecting to the service is almost idiot proof and takes just a few button presses. [2004 10, “Maximum PC”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 25:]
  • 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. [2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian:]
  • a flower press
  • a cheese press
  • And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 19:3:]
  • The press in the square grew. Something would happen now. [1962, Olivia Manning, The Spoilt City; republished as The Balkan Trilogy, 1990, →ISBN, page 327:]
  • Imagine the press of humanity in a crowded Parisian brasserie, circa the era when Lagerfeld would have been patronizing such joints. [2015 March 10, Tim Banks, “Chanel Fall 2015 Ready-to-Wear Collection”, in Vogue:]
  • 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. [1972, Carol A. Nemeyer, Scholarly Reprint Publishing in the United States, New York, N.Y.: R. R. Bowker Co., →ISBN, page 8:]
  • 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. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • 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. [2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:]
  • 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,[…]. [1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:]
  • This is the fourth set of benchpresses. There will be five more; then there will be five sets of presses on an inclined bench[…]. [1974, Charles Gaines, George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 22:]
  • 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. [2012, Gary McCord, Golf For Dummies:]
  • When a side is two or more points down in the match, they may request a press. [2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Sports Betting, page 181:]
  • I would like some Concord press with my meal tonight.
  • I have misused the king's press. [c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:]
  • The environmental comfort category is illustrative of cases in which there are low environmental presses matched against a number of personal competences. [2009, Allison E. Smith, Ageing in Urban Neighbourhoods, page 88:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English presse (“throng, crowd, clothespress”), partially from Old English press (“clothespress”) (from Medieval Latin pressa) and from Old French presse (Modern French presse) from Old French presser (“to press”), from Latin pressāre, from pressus, past participle of premere (“to press”). Chiefly displaced native Middle English thring (“press, crowd, throng”) (from Old English þring (“a press, crowd, anything that presses or confines”)).
2. see English thring See: Middle English Nouns 'presse', Old English Nouns 'press', French Nouns 'presse', Latin Nouns 'pressāre'.

Verbs referencing "press"

Irish Nouns preas, Irish Nouns prios.