Meanings (ES + gloss)
prensa
A device used to apply pressure to an item.
a flower press
prensa
A printing machine.
Stop the presses!
That books are pouring off the world’s presses at unprecedented rates is a fact often alluded to as a flood that is inundating libraries and the book trades.
prensa
The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
This article appeared in the press.
according to a member of the press
prensa • pres
An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
This is the fourth set of benchpresses. There will be five more; then there will be five sets of presses on an inclined bench[…].
Phrases
Bramah pressFrench pressPallof pressWordPressall-court pressalternative pressamateur press associationantipressany press is good pressarming pressbad pressbench pressbench-pressbody pressbookpressbrake presschest presscider pressclose for pressclothes pressclothes-presscold presscookie presscopying pressdigital pressdrill pressdrop pressduck pressfly pressfree pressfreedom of the pressfruit pressfull court pressfull-court pressgang pressgarlic pressgo to pressgood pressgutter presshand press
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
planchar
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.
apachar • apachurrar • aprensar • apretar • chejear • conculcar • espichar • estripar • machucar • oprimir • premir • prensar • presionar • pulsar
To drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
to press a crowd back
Phrases
cold-pressdownpresshot-pressmispresson-pressingoutpressoverpresspermapresspress F to pay respectspress aheadpress chargespress downpress fleshpress forwardpress homepress into servicepress onpress one's casepress one's luckpress outpress pausepress someone's buttonspress studpress the fleshpress the panic buttonpress titspress-to-talkpress-to-transmitpressablepressing padpressivepresslyrepressunpress