Mis 10 * favoritos presenta: Press

Ahora, inagurando seccion, por ocio, paso a presentar mis 10 acepciones favoritas de la palabra Press:

1. To urge or force to action; impel.


2. To place in trying or distressing circumstances; harass or oppress.


3. To lay stress on; emphasize.


4. To advance or carry on vigorously: “Far from backing down, he pressed the attack” (Justin Kaplan).


5. To put forward importunately or insistently: press an argument.


6. To advance eagerly; push forward


7. To assemble closely and in large numbers; crowd.


8. A place or establishment where matter is printed.


9. The entirety of media and agencies that collect, publish, transmit, or broadcast the news.


10. The haste or urgency of business or matters.

Bonus Track: press

• To force into service in the army or navy; impress.


• To take arbitrarily or by force, especially for public use.


• To use in a manner different from the usual or intended, especially in an emergency.


• Conscription or impressment into service, especially into the army or navy.


• Obsolete. An official warrant for impressing men into military service.

[Alteration of obsolete prest, to hire for military service by advance payment, from Middle English, enlistment money, loan, from Old French, from prester, to lend, from Medieval Latin praestāre, from Latin, to furnish, from praestō, present, at hand.]

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