What is the meaning of PRESS. Phrases containing PRESS
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Move over GI Joe (and Jane), this exercise is key for anyone looking for some serious overhead strength. From a standing position, with an overhand grip, press the barbell upward until arms are fully extended overhead (be careful not to lean too far back during the lift). Lower back down to the shoulders and repeat.
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The watertight, pressure-bearing structure that makes up the living and working area of a submarine.
Press the flesh is Black−American slang for shake hands.
Press and scratch was old London Cockney rhyming slang for a match.
Press is slang for cocaine.
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Causing, or giving rise to, pressure or to an increase of pressure; as, pressor nerve fibers, stimulation of which excites the vasomotor center, thus causing a stronger contraction of the arteries and consequently an increase of the arterial blood pressure; -- opposed to depressor.
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One of a tribe of wading birds (Pressirostres) including those which have a compressed beak, as the plovers.
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The art of printing from the surface of type, plates, or engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done.
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Fig.: Urgent; intense; as, a high-pressure business or social life.
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The juice of the grape extracted by the press; also, a fee paid for the use of a wine press.
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of Pressman
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One who presses clothes; as, a tailor's pressman.
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Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.
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Urgency; as, the pressure of business.
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The act of pressing; pressure.
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Having or involving a pressure greatly exceeding that of the atmosphere; -- said of steam, air, water, etc., and of steam, air, or hydraulic engines, water wheels, etc.
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Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation.
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To pack, or prepare for packing, by means of a press.
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Having, employing, or exerting, a low degree of pressure.
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One who manages, or attends to, a press, esp. a printing press.
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The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.
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A contrasting force or impulse of any kind; as, the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.
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Pressure.
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Urgent; exacting; importunate; as, a pressing necessity.
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One of a press gang, who aids in forcing men into the naval service; also, one forced into the service.
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