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pressed
a. 紧迫的, 繁忙的
pressed
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compacted by ironing
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compacted by ironing
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Press \Press\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pressed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Pressing}.] [F. presser, fr. L. pressare to press, fr.
premere, pressum, to press. Cf. {Print}, v.]
1. To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon
by pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to
crowd or compel by a gradual and continued exertion; to
bear upon; to squeeze; to compress; as, we press the
ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on
which we repose; we press substances with the hands,
fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd.
Good measure, pressed down, and shaken together.
--Luke vi. 38.
2. To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of;
to squeeze out, or express, from something.
From sweet kernels pressed,
She tempers dulcet creams. --Milton.
And I took the grapes, and pressed them into
Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's
hand. --Gen. xl. 11.
3. To squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus,
in order to compact, make dense, or smooth; as, to press
cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to
press clothes.
4. To embrace closely; to hug.
Leucothoe shook at these alarms,
And pressed Palemon closer in her arms. --Pope.
5. To oppress; to bear hard upon.
Press not a falling man too far. --Shak.
6. To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or
hunger.
7. To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon
or over; to constrain; to force; to compel.
Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the
Jews that Jesus was Christ. --Acts xviii.
5.
8. To try to force (something upon some one); to urge or
inculcate with earnestness or importunity; to enforce; as,
to press divine truth on an audience.
He pressed a letter upon me within this hour.
--Dryden.
Be sure to press upon him every motive. --Addison.
9. To drive with violence; to hurry; to urge on; to ply hard;
as, to press a horse in a race.
The posts . . . went cut, being hastened and pressed
on, by the king's commandment. --Esther viii.
14.
Note: Press differs from drive and strike in usually denoting
a slow or continued application of force; whereas drive
and strike denote a sudden impulse of force.
{Pressed brick}. See under {Brick}.
{Pressing}.] [F. presser, fr. L. pressare to press, fr.
premere, pressum, to press. Cf. {Print}, v.]
1. To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon
by pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to
crowd or compel by a gradual and continued exertion; to
bear upon; to squeeze; to compress; as, we press the
ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on
which we repose; we press substances with the hands,
fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd.
Good measure, pressed down, and shaken together.
--Luke vi. 38.
2. To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of;
to squeeze out, or express, from something.
From sweet kernels pressed,
She tempers dulcet creams. --Milton.
And I took the grapes, and pressed them into
Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's
hand. --Gen. xl. 11.
3. To squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus,
in order to compact, make dense, or smooth; as, to press
cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to
press clothes.
4. To embrace closely; to hug.
Leucothoe shook at these alarms,
And pressed Palemon closer in her arms. --Pope.
5. To oppress; to bear hard upon.
Press not a falling man too far. --Shak.
6. To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or
hunger.
7. To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon
or over; to constrain; to force; to compel.
Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the
Jews that Jesus was Christ. --Acts xviii.
5.
8. To try to force (something upon some one); to urge or
inculcate with earnestness or importunity; to enforce; as,
to press divine truth on an audience.
He pressed a letter upon me within this hour.
--Dryden.
Be sure to press upon him every motive. --Addison.
9. To drive with violence; to hurry; to urge on; to ply hard;
as, to press a horse in a race.
The posts . . . went cut, being hastened and pressed
on, by the king's commandment. --Esther viii.
14.
Note: Press differs from drive and strike in usually denoting
a slow or continued application of force; whereas drive
and strike denote a sudden impulse of force.
{Pressed brick}. See under {Brick}.
- Pepperell, meanwhile, pressed the $62.50-a-share offer it raised yesterday.
- When pressed, some analysts estimate the offers fall roughly in between $15 to $16 a share, or a total of about $248 million to $264 million.
- The Democratic presidential nominee invoked Truman's battling underdog memory across the Midwest as he pressed his argument that Bush is an elitist whose proposal to reduce the federal tax on capital gains would benefit primarily the wealthy.
- But pressed by opposition Liberal and New Democratic Party members to match the bill signed this week by President Reagan, Mulroney made no commitments.
- President Bush counseled "just be patient" when pressed on why the Soviet Union hadn't joined his call for a resolution authorizing military force against Kuwait.
- Miss Ward's father, Suffolk hotelier John Ward, has pressed for a continued investigation into his daughter's murder and Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi requested British assistance during a private visit to London last month.
- Rep. Newt Gingrich, who has pressed for ethics investigations of House Speaker Jim Wright, called on the House ethics panel Friday to look into three additional Wright matters and also into issues involving other House members.
- He pressed the flesh with ordinary citizens on Washington's crowded streets.
- Mr Lim Chin Beng, SIA's deputy chairman, says the future of aviation rests on developing such a hub-and-spoke system at airports. In return for use of its facilities at Changi, SIA has pressed for increased traffic rights and hubbing at other centres.
- Eastern Airlines reported a 15.7 percent decline in June passenger traffic in what the company called a reflection of the continued "downsizing" of the financially pressed carrier.
- Others noted that investors might be pressed to realign their investments now because it is the end of the quarter here and the end of the first half of Japan's fiscal year.
- In recent weeks, several ministers have privately pressed for changes in the cartel's price and production targets.
- After a stuttering start, Exxon pressed thousands of workers into the cleanup.
- East German Premier Hans Modrow, pressed by mass emigration and a crumbling economy, appealed Tuesday for immediate reunification talks under a formula worked out with the Allied victors of World War II.
- He pressed the legislature to approve a resolution strengthening the fight against a burgeoning crime rate.
- I deeply believe it." When pressed about his assessments of a Communist Party plenum this week, Walesa would make only general comments.
- But the government now has another chance to examine, before the button is pressed, whether Thorp is really the best and most profitable way forward for Britain to dispose of nuclear waste.
- Although pressed repeatedly, he would not cite any authority for his comment.
- When he was six his widowed father, hard pressed, sent him off to live with a neighbor, Dan Call.
- They also pressed officials not to allow the same thing happen to land banks in other parts of the country.
- The first salvo, a letter sent by an employee in a graphics unit, thanked Ms. Schleuning "for your deeply thoughtful and perceptive letter," and included a photograph of a naked East African boy with his mouth pressed against the backside of a cow.
- Because of the number of people involved in the lawsuits, the old Fulton County Commission meeting room in the county's governmental complex has been pressed into service as a courtroom.
- If severely pressed, Mr. Hirsch can still fall back on a second line of argument.
- The band settled into seats in an open space next to the Bolshoi Theater for a concert, and a crowd of about 1,000 pressed around it so tightly that it had to be warned repeatedly to move back.
- Apartment building is expected to fall sharply this year, and the de pressed level could persist for years.
- WARDLE STOREYS is to pay Pounds 2m for the PVC pressed sheet business of European Vinyls.
- Thypin Steel Co., in New York, was pressed for space in its sales department.
- When pressed for a time period, he said one year is possible.
- The company also makes bubble gum, mostly marketed under the Dubble Bubble brand, as well as Razzles, a gum product pressed into the form of a tablet.
- Party leaders pressed Lukens for more than a year to resign, but he ignored them.
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pressed air
pressed bale
pressed bar
pressed beef
pressed beet pulp
pressed brick
pressed cannon second...
pressed cannon solid ...
pressed caviar
pressed charge
pressed charge (固...
pressed clay-tile
pressed compact
pressed concrete
pressed container gla...
pressed cossettes
pressed crystal ware
pressed density
pressed disc method
pressed distillate
pressed dripping
pressed explosive
pressed felt
pressed film
pressed finish
pressed for
pressed frame
pressed fuel
pressed girder
pressed glass
pressed glass base
pressed grape
pressed green compact
pressed ham
pressed hollow glassware
pressed juice
pressed liquor
pressed loading
pressed magnet
pressed material
pressed meat
pressed metal
pressed metal door
pressed metal node
pressed metal section
pressed mica
pressed part
pressed permalloy powder
pressed pile
pressed pipe
pressed plutonium oxi...
pressed powder process
pressed profile
pressed pulp
pressed refined sugar
pressed rib
pressed sampler
pressed scrap
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