[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/press/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [P](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/p/) / press # press verb (press, presses, pressed, pressing); noun (a press, the press) «press» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. To press is to push firmly on something: press a button. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/press/#m1) 2. To press clothes is to iron them flat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/press/#m2) 3. To press someone is to try hard to make them do something. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/press/#m3) 4. A press is a machine that pushes or squeezes things, or that prints. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/press/#m4) 5. The press means newspapers, TV news and the people who write them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/press/#m5) ### In the lessons In technology, «press the button», «press Enter». In first aid, press on a bleeding cut with a clean cloth to slow the bleeding. In science, pressing increases pressure; flowers can be pressed flat to dry them. In everyday life, «press-ups» (UK) / «push-ups» (US) are exercises. Phrases: «press on» (keep going), «pressed for time» (in a hurry), «under pressure». ### Examples - Press the green button to start. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/press/#x1) - Press firmly on the cut with a clean cloth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/press/#x2) - We pressed flowers in a heavy book. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/press/#x3) - Don't press too hard with your pencil. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/press/#x4) - Dad pressed his shirt for the wedding. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/press/#x5) - The news was in the press. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/press/#x6) - We were pressed for time, so we ran. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/press/#x7) - Press on — you're nearly finished! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/press/#x8) - ‘Press your finger on the latch, then push and the door opens.’ [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/press/#x9) ### Note Regular: pressed. The noun «pressure» is the force of pressing. «The press» (newspapers) takes «the». Do not confuse «press» with «dress». ## In Jewish tradition In the Torah it usually means a wine-press or oil-press, where grapes or olives are squeezed. As a verb in Job and the Psalms it means to push down hard, as God's waves press on the sufferer. Hosea says the threshing-floor and wine-press will fail the people. **Interpretation.** Offerings and tithes must come from the grain and the press. Giving the first of the harvest honors God as the giver. The prophets use an empty press as a sign of punishment for turning away from God. ### Examples - Thou shalt not delay to offer of the fulness of thy harvest, and of the outflow of thy presses. (Torah EXO.22.29, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/press/#x1) - And the gift which ye set apart shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshing-floor, and as the fulness of the wine-press. (Torah NUM.18.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/press/#x2) - Therefore thou shalt say unto them: When ye set apart the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshing-floor, and as the increase of the wine-press. (Torah NUM.18.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/press/#x3) - Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and all Thy waves Thou pressest down. (Writings PSA.88.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/press/#x4) - Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fish-hook? or press down his tongue with a cord? (Writings JOB.40.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/press/#x5) - The threshing-floor and the wine-press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her. (Prophets HOS.9.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/press/#x6) ### Note Regular: pressed. The noun «pressure» is the force of pressing. «The press» (newspapers) takes «the». Do not confuse «press» with «dress». ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «press» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/press/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«press» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/press.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «press» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/press/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«press» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/press.html) on Mova free.