press (original) (raw)
press verb (PERSUADE)
press someone for something He's pressing me for an answer.
press someone on something Can I press you further on (= persuade you to say more about) this issue?
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press noun (BOOKS)
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press noun (PRINTING MACHINE)
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press noun (PUSH)
give something a press Can you give this shirt a quick press?
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press | American Dictionary
press verb (PUSH)
press verb (PERSUADE)
Marquez will visit Washington to press his country’s case.
Phrasal verbs
press noun (DEVICE)
press noun (NEWSPAPERS)
press noun (PUBLISHER)
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press | Business English
Phrasal verbs
COMMUNICATIONS (also the press)
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(Definition of press from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of press
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My comments here, however, are very general, and apply to any argument which presses the problem of evil on the basis of empirical evidence.
However, some issues are pressing and the pilot has had to find the answers itself.
The participants were asked to indicate if they detected the target by pressing separate buttons on the keyboard (' 1 '=yes, ' 9 '=no).
In some, the animals' bodies are pressed into clumsy and unnaturalistic positions more suited to a human body.
The subject had to respond to the square immediately after it appeared on the display by pressing a key on a special keyboard.
The plasma pressed by the magnetic field to the internal electrode is unstable because of an unfavorable curvature of the magnetic field lines.
Cats were strongly discouraged from arbitrarily pressing the response pedal.
Her comrades pressed her to go, but she was already distancing herself from them and decided to stay behind.
In essence, beginners pressed for being included as the beneficiaries of this technology.
One is the arrival of keyboard microcomputers, the twentieth-century equivalent of the fifteenth-century printing presses...
The intestine was then divided into ten equal sections, pressed in a trichine compressorium and cysticercoids counted under the microscope.
Large groups, perhaps corporate parties, find appropriate places for pressing flesh, or whatever it is that they do.
Specifically, they pressed for high tariffs on select groups of goods and low or zero tariffs on raw materials, intermediate, and capital goods.
Based on the epidemiological data of our study, there is a pressing need to implement control measures on this population.
Trematodes were fixed in glacial acetic acid and pressed between two slides, and preserved in 70% ethyl alcohol.
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Collocations with press
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This book is not free of small flaws that the copy-editing services of an academic press would have picked up.
At roughly the same time, in the late 1960s, an intense debate arose in the daily press on issues related to immigration.
The peg assemblage is attached to a 6-axis force sensor which is held by a vertical sliding mechanism functioning as an inserter (drill press).
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