Bramah press
() A hydrostatic press of immense power, invented by Joseph Bramah of London. See under Hydrostatic. |
Drill press
() A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw. |
Eccentric
(a.) Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle |
Eccentric
(a.) Not having the same center |
Eccentric
(a.) Pertaining to an eccentric |
Eccentric
(a.) Not coincident as to motive or end. |
Eccentric
(a.) Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws |
Eccentric
(n.) A circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first. |
Eccentric
(n.) One who, or that which, deviates from regularity |
Eccentric
(n.) In the Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center. |
Eccentric
(n.) A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius. |
Eccentric
(n.) A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion derived is precisely that of a crank having the same throw. |
Press
(n.) An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to maroon and to brownish black. |
Press
(n.) To force into service, particularly into naval service |
Press
(n.) A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy. |
Press
(v.) To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight |
Press
(v.) To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of |
Press
(v.) To squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus, in order to compact, make dense, or smooth |
Press
(v.) To embrace closely |
Press
(v.) To oppress |
Press
(v.) To straiten |
Press
(v.) To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or over |
Press
(v.) To try to force (something upon some one) |
Press
(v.) To drive with violence |
Press
(v. i.) To exert pressure |
Press
(v. i.) To move on with urging and crowding |
Press
(v. i.) To urge with vehemence or importunity |
Press
(n.) An apparatus or machine by which any substance or body is pressed, squeezed, stamped, or shaped, or by which an impression of a body is taken |
Press
(n.) Specifically, a printing press. |
Press
(n.) The art or business of printing and publishing |
Press
(n.) An upright case or closet for the safe keeping of articles |
Press
(n.) The act of pressing or thronging forward. |
Press
(n.) Urgent demands of business or affairs |
Press
(n.) A multitude of individuals crowded together |
press
pressure
pressing | the act of pressing, the exertion of pressure, he gave the button a press, he used pressure to stop the bleeding, at the pressing of a button |
| bench press | a weightlift in which you lie on your back on a bench and press weights upward |
| incline bench press | a bench press performed on an inclined bench |
| press military press | a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead |
pushup
press-up | an arm exercise performed lying face to the floor and pushing the body up and down with the arms |
| field press censorship | security review of news (including all information or material intended for dissemination to the public) subject to the jurisdiction of the armed forces |
| bench press | a small punch press mounted on a workbench |
| cheese press | a press for shaping cheese curd |
| drill press | a machine tool with a separate, upright stand, an electric drill is pressed into the work automatically or with a hand lever |
drop forge
drop hammer
drop press | device for making large forgings |
flatbed press
cylinder press | a printing press where the type is carried on a flat bed under a cylinder that holds paper and rolls over the type |
| garlic press | a press for extracting juice from garlic |
| hydraulic press | press in which a force applied by a piston to a small area is transmitted through water to another piston having a large area |
permanent press
durable press | a fabric that has been chemically processed to resist wrinkles and hold its shape |
press
mechanical press | any machine that exerts pressure to form or shape or cut materials or extract liquids or compress solids |
| press printing press | a machine used for printing |
| press | clamp to prevent wooden rackets from warping when not in use |
| press box | box reserved for reporters (as at a sports event) |
| press gallery | an area (sometimes in a balcony) set aside for reporters (especially in a legislative hall) |
press of sail
press of canvas | the greatest amount of sail that a ship can carry safely |
| punch press | a power driven press used to shape metal parts |
| rotary press | a printing press for printing from a revolving cylinder |
snap
snap fastener
press stud | a fastener used on clothing, fastens with a snapping sound, children can manage snaps better than buttons |
| standing press | a large printing press that exerts pressure vertically |
trouser press
pants presser | a home appliance in which trousers can be hung and the wrinkles pressed out |
wardrobe
closet press | a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes, has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes |
| freedom of the press | a right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution |
| gutter press | press that engages in sensational journalism (especially concerning the private lives of public figures) |
| free press | a press not restricted or controlled by government censorship regarding politics or ideology |
press
public press | the print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines |
samizdat
underground press | a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature |
clipping
newspaper clipping
press clipping
cutting
press cutting | an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine, he searched through piles of letters and clippings |
| stop press | late news that is inserted into the newspaper at the last minute |
handout
press release
release | an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation |
press conference
news conference | a conference at which press and tv reporters ask questions of a politician or other celebrity |
crush
jam
press | a dense crowd of people |
| press gang | a detachment empowered to force civilians to serve in the army or navy |
news agency
press agency
wire service
press association
news organization
news organisation | an agency to collects news reports for newspapers and distributes it electronically |
| press corps | a group of journalists representing different publications who all cover the same topics, the White House press corps |
character
eccentric type
case | a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities), a real character, a strange character, a friendly eccentric, the capable type, a mental case |
eccentric
eccentric person
flake
oddball
geek | a person with an unusual or odd personality |
press agent
publicity man
public relations man
PR man | someone employed to arrange publicity (for a firm or a public figure) |
| press lord | a powerful newspaper proprietor |
| press photographer | a photographer who works for a newspaper |
imperativeness
insistence
insistency
press
pressure | the state of demanding notice or attention, the insistence of their hunger, the press of business matters |
print run
press run | the period that presses run to produce an issue of a newspaper |
stub out
crush out
extinguish press out | extinguish by crushing, stub out your cigar |
bid beseech
entreat
adjure press conjure | ask for or request earnestly, The prophet bid all people to become good persons |
urge
urge on
press
exhort | force or impel in an indicated direction, I urged him to finish his studies |
drive home
ram home
press home | make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something, drive home a point or an argument, I'm trying to drive home these basic ideas |