Present vs. Press

The present (or here and now) is the time that is associated with the events perceived directly and in the first time, not as a recollection (perceived more than once) or a speculation (predicted, hypothesis, uncertain). It is a period of time between the past and the future, and can vary in meaning from being an instant to a day or longer.

To exert steady weight or force against

A moment or period in time perceptible as intermediate between past and future; now.

To move by applying pressure

The present tense.

To squeeze or clasp in fondness or concern

A verb form in the present tense.

To squeeze the juice or other contents from

presents(Law) The document or instrument in question

To extract (juice, for example) by squeezing or compressing.

pres·ent (prĕzənt) Something presented; a gift.

To reshape or make compact by applying steady force; compress

pre·sent (prĭ-zĕnt) The position of a rifle or other weapon when presented.

To iron (clothing, for example).

Existing or happening now; current

To make (a sound recording), originally by pressing (a vinyl phonograph record) under pressure in a mold.

Being at hand or in attendance

To bear down on or attack

Existing in something specified

To carry on or advance vigorously (an attack, for instance).

Now being considered; actually here or involved

To place in trying or distressing circumstances

(Grammar) Designating a verb tense or form that expresses current time.

To insist upon or put forward insistently

(Archaic) Readily available; immediate.

To try to influence or persuade, as by insistent arguments; pressure or entreat

(Obsolete) Alert to circumstances; attentive.

To insist that someone accept (something). Often used with on or upon

To make a gift or award of

(Sports) To lift (a weight) to a position above the head without moving the legs.

To make a gift to

To exert force or pressure

To offer for observation, examination, or consideration; show or display

To be worrisome or depressing; weigh heavily

To offer (a play, for example) for public entertainment.

To advance eagerly; move forward urgently

To afford or furnish

To assemble closely and in large numbers; crowd

To turn or position in the direction of another

To continue a course of action, especially in spite of difficulties

(Immunology) To display (an antigen) on the cell surface. Used especially of cells such as macrophages and dendritic cells, where the displayed antigen activates T cells as part of an immune response.

To require haste or urgent action

To represent or depict in a certain manner

To employ urgent persuasion or entreaty

To introduce, especially with formal ceremony.

To iron clothes or other material.

To introduce (a young woman) to society with conventional ceremony.

(Sports) To raise or lift a weight in a press.

To hold, carry, or point (a weapon) in a particular manner as a salutation or sign of honor, usually along the center axis of the body.

(Basketball) To employ a press.

(Ecclesiastical) To recommend (a cleric) for a benefice.

(Sports) In golf, to try to hit long or risky shots, typically with unsuccessful results.

To make a presentation.

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

To be evident or manifest. Used of a disease or condition

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

To exhibit symptoms or signs during a medical examination

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

Relating to now, for the time being; current.

Any of various machines or devices that apply pressure

Located in the immediate vicinity.

A printing press.

(obsolete) Having an immediate effect (of a medicine, poison etc.); fast-acting.

A place or establishment where matter is printed

(obsolete) Not delayed; immediate; instant.

A publishing company

(dated) Ready; quick in emergency.

The communications media considered as a whole, especially the agencies that collect, publish, transmit, or broadcast news and other information to the public

(obsolete) Favorably attentive; propitious.

News or other information disseminated to the public in printed, broadcast, or electronic form

Relating to something a person is referring to in the very context, with a deictic use similar to the demonstrative adjective this.

The people involved in the media, as news reporters and broadcasters

Attentive; alert; focused.

The kind or extent of coverage a person or event receives in the media

The current moment or period of time.

A large gathering; a crowd

(grammar) The present tense.

The act of gathering in large numbers or of pushing forward

A gift, especially one given for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, graduations, weddings, or any other special occasions.

An act of pressing down or applying pressure

(military) The position of a soldier in presenting arms.

The haste or urgency of business or matters

To bring (someone) into the presence of (a person); to introduce formally.

The set of proper creases in a garment or fabric, formed by ironing.

(transitive) To nominate (a member of the clergy) for an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.

Chiefly Scots and Irish An upright closet or case used for storing clothing, books, or other articles.

(transitive) To offer (a problem, complaint) to a court or other authority for consideration.

(Sports) A lift in weightlifting in which the weight is raised to shoulder level and then steadily pushed straight overhead without movement of the legs.

To charge (a person) with a crime or accusation; to bring before court.

(Basketball) An aggressive defense tactic in which players guard opponents closely, often over the entire court.

(reflexive) To come forward, appear in a particular place or before a particular person, especially formally.

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

(transitive) To put (something) forward in order for it to be seen; to show, exhibit.

(Obsolete) An official warrant for impressing men into military service.

(transitive) To make clear to one's mind or intelligence; to put forward for consideration.

An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.

(transitive) To put on, stage (a play etc.).

(countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.

To point (a firearm) at something, to hold (a weapon) in a position ready to fire.

(countable) A printing machine.

(reflexive) To offer oneself for mental consideration; to occur to the mind.

The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).

To come to the attention of medical staff, especially with a specific symptom.

(countable) A publisher.

To appear (in a specific way) for delivery (of a fetus); to appear first at the mouth of the uterus during childbirth.

An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).

To appear or represent oneself (as having a certain gender).

An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.

(transitive) To act as presenter on (a radio, television programme etc.).

An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager in value, but begins even at the time of the bet.

(transitive) To give a gift or presentation to (someone).

(countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.

(transitive) To give (a gift or presentation) to someone; to bestow.

A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.

(transitive) To deliver (something abstract) as though as a gift; to offer.

(obsolete) A crowd.

(transitive) To hand over (a bill etc.) to be paid.

(psychology) In personology, any environmental factor that arouses a need in the individual.

To display one's female genitalia in a way that signals to others that one is ready for copulation. Also referred to as lordosis behaviour.

(ambitransitive) To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.

(fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, to have one's secondary sex (alpha, omega, or beta) become apparent, typically at puberty.

To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; - opposed to absent.

(transitive) To compress, squeeze.

Now existing, or in process; begun but not ended; now in view, or under consideration; being at this time; not past or future; as, the present session of Congress; the present state of affairs; the present instance.

(transitive) To clasp, hold in an embrace.

Not delayed; immediate; instant; coincident.

(transitive) To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.

Ready; quick in emergency; as a present wit.

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.

Favorably attentive; propitious.

(transitive) To drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.

Present time; the time being; time in progress now, or at the moment contemplated; as, at this present.

To weigh upon, oppress, trouble.

Present letters or instrument, as a deed of conveyance, a lease, letter of attorney, or other writing; as in the phrase, " Know all men by these presents," that is, by the writing itself, " per has literas praesentes; " - in this sense, rarely used in the singular.

(transitive) To force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly.

A present tense, or the form of the verb denoting the present tense.

To try to force (something upon someone).

Anything presented or given; a gift; a donative; as, a Christmas present.

(transitive) To hasten, urge onward.

The position of a soldier in presenting arms; as, to stand at present.

(transitive) To urge, beseech, entreat.

To bring or introduce into the presence of some one, especially of a superior; to introduce formally; to offer for acquaintance; as, to present an envoy to the king; (with the reciprocal pronoun) to come into the presence of a superior.

(transitive) To lay stress upon.

To exhibit or offer to view or notice; to lay before one's perception or cognizance; to set forth; to present a fine appearance.

(ambitransitive) To throng, crowd.

To pass over, esp. in a ceremonious manner; to give in charge or possession; to deliver; to make over.

To print.

To make a gift of; to bestow; to give, generally in a formal or ceremonious manner; to grant; to confer.

To force into service, particularly into naval service.

Hence: To endow; to bestow a gift upon; to favor, as with a donation; also, to court by gifts.

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.

To present; to personate.

A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.

To nominate to an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.

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; sometimes, the place or building containing a press or presses.

To nominate for support at a public school or other institution .

Specifically, a printing press.

To appear at the mouth of the uterus so as to be perceptible to the finger in vaginal examination; - said of a part of an infant during labor.

The art or business of printing and publishing; hence, printed publications, taken collectively, more especially newspapers or the persons employed in writing for them; as, a free press is a blessing, a licentious press is a curse.

the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech;

An upright case or closet for the safe keeping of articles; as, a clothes press.

something presented as a gift;

The act of pressing or thronging forward.

a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking

Urgent demands of business or affairs; urgency; as, a press of engagements.

show or demonstrate something to an interested audience;

A multitude of individuals crowded together; crowd of single things; a throng.

bring forward and present to the mind;

To force into service, particularly into naval service; to impress.

perform (a play), especially on a stage;

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.

hand over formally

To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of; to squeeze out, or express, from something.

introduce;

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.

give, especially as a reward;

To embrace closely; to hug.

give as a present; make a gift of;

To oppress; to bear hard upon.

deliver (a speech, oration, or idea);

To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger.

cause to come to know personally;

To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or over; to constrain; to force; to compel.

represent in a painting, drawing, sculpture, or verbally;

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.

present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize;

To drive with violence; to hurry; to urge on; to ply hard; as, to press a horse in a race.

formally present a debutante, a representative of a country, etc.

To exert pressure; to bear heavily; to push, crowd, or urge with steady force.

recognize with a gesture prescribed by a miltary regulation; assume a prescribed position;

To move on with urging and crowding; to make one's way with violence or effort; to bear onward forcibly; to crowd; to throng; to encroach.

temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration;

To urge with vehemence or importunity; to exert a strong or compelling influence; as, an argument presses upon the judgment.

spatial sense; being or existing in a specified place;

newspaper writers and photographers

the state of urgently demanding notice or attention;

the gathering and publishing of news in the form of newspapers or magazines

a machine used for printing

a dense crowd of people

a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes

clamp to prevent wooden rackets from warping when not in use

any machine that exerts pressure to form or shape or cut materials or extract liquids or compress solids

a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead

the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure;

exert pressure or force to or upon;

force or impel in an indicated direction;

to be oppressive or burdensome;

place between two surfaces and apply weight or pressure;

squeeze or press together;

crowd closely;

create by pressing;

be urgent;

exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for;

press from a plastic;

make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby;

lift weights;

ask for or request earnestly;