Press vs Lot - What's the difference?
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(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.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*: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.
* Dryden
* 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
A large quantity or number; a great deal.
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, title= A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
(informal) A number of people taken collectively.
A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
* Kent
That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
* Spenser
Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
* Bible, Proverbs xvi. 33
* Shakespeare
The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
* Milton
* Alexander Pope
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A prize in a lottery.
Allotment; lottery.
* 1990 : (Donald Kagan), Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy , chapter 2: “Politician”, page 40 (Guild Publishing; 2239)
All members of a set; everything.
An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.
(dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion.
(US, informal, dated) To count]] or [[reckon on, reckon (on'' or ''upon ).
Press is a related term of lot.
As a noun press
is (lb) a device used to apply pressure to an item.As a verb press
is (ambitransitive) to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight.As a proper noun lot is
a nephew of abraham in the bible and quran.press
English
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 * *
Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----lot
English
Noun
(en noun)- He wrote to her he might be detained in London by a lot of business.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
- The defendants leased a house and lot in the city of New York.
- But save my life, which lot before your foot doth lay.
- The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
- If we draw lots , he speeds.
- O visions ill foreseen! Each day's lot's / Enough to bear.
- He was but born to try / The lot of man — to suffer and to die.
- as Jones alone was discovered, the poor lad bore not only the whole smart, but the whole blame; both which fell again to his lot on the following occasion.
- (Evelyn)
- The Greeks expected their leaders to show physical courage, whether in the athletic arena or in battle, as well as piety, generosity, and nobility. Cimon had risen to power chiefly because of his military prowess, and any rival must be able to show at least honorable service and military competence. By this time, moreover, the generals were coming to be the most important political figures in Athens. Archons served only for one year and, since 487/6, they were chosen by lot . Generals, on the other hand, were chosen by direct election and could be reelected without limit.
- The table was loaded with food, but by evening there was nothing but crumbs; we had eaten the lot .