Press vs Obtrude - 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.
*1974 , Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding , p.22:
*: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
To proffer (something) by force; to impose (something) (on) someone or (into) some area.
*1651 , (Thomas Hobbes), Leviathan :
*:By which we may see, that they who are not called to Counsell, can have no good Counsell in such cases to obtrude .
*1855 , (Elizabeth Gaskell), North and South :
*:It was unusual with Margaret to obtrude her own subject of conversation on others; but, in this case, she was so anxious to prevent Mr. Thornton from feeling annoyance at the words he had accidentally overheard, that it was not until she had done speaking that she coloured all over with consciousness [...].
*2007 , Andrew Martin, The Guardian , 16 Jul 2007:
*:The prospect of people writing PhD theses that obtrude hard facts into the question of whether it's a) grim or b) nice up north is naturally worrying to all those of us who like to shout about those matters in the saloon bars of England.
To become apparent in an unwelcome way, to be forcibly imposed; to jut in, to intrude ((on) or (into)).
*1853 , , :
*:Sometimes I dreamed strangely of disturbed earth, and of hair, still golden and living, obtruded through the coffin-chinks.
*1991 , (Roy Jenkins), A Life at the Centre :
*:It was not only the police but the palace which obtruded on a home secretary's life.
*2010 , Colin Greenland, The Guardian , 7 Aug 2010:
*:In such a very chronological book, though, small anachronisms do obtrude .
(reflexive) To impose (oneself) on others; to cut in.
*1934 , (Winston Churchill), Marlborough: His Life and Times , vol II:
*:She obtruded herself upon the Queen; she protested her party views; she asked for petty favours, and attributed the refusals to the influence of Abigail.
*2004 , Marc Abrahams, The Guardian , 13 Jan 2004:
*:This scarcity of knowledge also obtruded itself in 1998, when three scientists in Wales published a report called "What Sort of Men Take Garlic Preparations?"
*2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 121:
*:As 1968 began to ebb into 1969, however, and as “anticlimax” began to become a real word in my lexicon, another term began to obtrude itself.
In transitive terms the difference between press and obtrude
is that press is to lay stress upon, emphasize while obtrude is to proffer (something) by force; to impose (something) {{term|on}} someone or {{term|into}} some area.As verbs the difference between press and obtrude
is that press is to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight while obtrude is to proffer (something) by force; to impose (something) {{term|on}} someone or {{term|into}} some area.As a noun press
is a device used to apply pressure to an item.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 * *