Induce vs Press - What's the difference?
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To lead by persuasion or influence; incite.
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To cause, bring about, lead to.
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, title= (physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.
(logic) To infer by induction.
(obsolete) To lead in, bring in, introduce.
(obsolete) To draw on, place upon.
(lb) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
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#(lb) A printing machine.
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(lb) A collective term for the print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
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(lb) (especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
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An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
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*:This is the fourth set of benchpresses. There will be five more; then there will be five sets of presses on an inclined bench.
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.
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(lb) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
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A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
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*:I have misused the king's press .
(ambitransitive) to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight
to compress, squeeze
to clasp, hold in an embrace; to hug
to reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth
(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.
to drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction
(obsolete) to weigh upon, oppress, trouble
to force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly, impel
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To try to force (something upon someone); to urge or inculcate.
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* Addison
to hasten, urge onward
to urge, beseech, entreat
to lay stress upon, emphasize
(ambitransitive) to throng, crowd
(obsolete) to print
To force into service, particularly into naval service.
* Dryden
Induce is a related term of press.
In lang=en terms the difference between induce and press
is that induce is to cause, bring about, lead to while press is to lay stress upon, emphasize.In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between induce and press
is that induce is (obsolete) to draw on, place upon while press is (obsolete) to print.As verbs the difference between induce and press
is that induce is to lead by persuasion or influence; incite while press is (ambitransitive) to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight.As a noun press is
(lb) a device used to apply pressure to an item.induce
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Verb
(induc)TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992), passage=A mere glance at the plot descriptions of the show’s fourth season is enough to induce Pavlovian giggle fits and shivers of joy. }}
Synonyms
* (to cause) bring about, instigate, prompt, stimulate, trigger, provokeAntonyms
* (logic) deduceAnagrams
*References
* * ----press
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Etymology 1
(etyl) ).Noun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=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.}}
Keeping the mighty honest, passage=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.}}
Synonyms
* (storage space) closet, cupboard, wardrobe (British ) * (printing machine) printing pressDerived terms
* alternative press * bench press * fruit press * press cake * press gang * press-mark * press officer * press secretary * shoulder press * trouser pressEtymology 2
(etyl) .Verb
- 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 .
Quotations
* (English Citations of "press")Synonyms
* *Derived terms
* press charges * press onSee also
* hot press (baking, laundry) * hot off the press (printing) * press downReferences
*Entry for the imperfect and past participlein Webster's dictionary * *
