Array and Press

noun

• An orderly arrangement.
  • usage: "an array of troops in battle order"
• An impressive display.
  • usage: "it was a bewildering array of books"; "his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall"
• Especially fine or decorative clothing.
  • synonyms: raiment, regalia
• An arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics.

verb

• Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line.
  • usage: "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"
  • synonyms: range, lay out, set out
• Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking.
  • synonyms: align

• (n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
• (n.) To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied especially to dress of a splendid kind.
• (n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
• (n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
• (n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.
• (n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
• (n.) The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
• (n.) An imposing series of things.
• (n.) Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
• (n.) The panel itself.

noun

• The state of demanding notice or attention.
  • usage: "the insistence of their hunger"; "the press of business matters"
  • synonyms: imperativeness, insistence, insistency, pressure
• The print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines.
  • synonyms: public press
• A machine used for printing.
  • synonyms: printing press
• A dense crowd of people.
  • synonyms: crush, jam
• A tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes.
  • synonyms: wardrobe, closet
• 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.
  • synonyms: mechanical press
• A weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead.
  • synonyms: military press
• The act of pressing; the exertion of pressure.
  • usage: "he gave the button a press"; "he used pressure to stop the bleeding"; "at the pressing of a button"
  • synonyms: pressure, pressing

verb

• Exert pressure or force to or upon.
  • usage: "He pressed down on the boards"; "press your thumb on this spot"
• Force or impel in an indicated direction.
  • usage: "I urged him to finish his studies"
  • synonyms: urge, urge on, exhort
• To be oppressive or burdensome.
  • usage: "weigh heavily on the mind, "Something pressed on his mind"
  • synonyms: weigh
• Place between two surfaces and apply weight or pressure.
  • usage: "pressed flowers"
• Squeeze or press together.
  • usage: "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"
  • synonyms: compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract
• Crowd closely.
  • usage: "The crowds pressed along the street"
• Create by pressing.
  • usage: "Press little holes into the soft clay"
• Be urgent.
  • usage: "This is a pressing problem"
• 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.
  • usage: "The liberal party pushed for reforms"; "She is crusading for women's rights"; "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate"
  • synonyms: crusade, fight, campaign, push, agitate
• Press from a plastic.
  • usage: "press a record"
  • synonyms: press out
• Make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby.
  • usage: "`Now push hard,' said the doctor to the woman"
  • synonyms: push
• Press and smooth with a heated iron.
  • usage: "press your shirts"; "she stood there ironing"
  • synonyms: iron, iron out
• Lift weights.
  • usage: "This guy can press 300 pounds"
  • synonyms: weight-lift, weightlift
• Ask for or request earnestly.
  • usage: "The prophet bid all people to become good persons"
  • synonyms: bid, beseech, entreat, adjure, conjure

• (v.i.) To exert pressure; to bear heavily; to push, crowd or urge with steady force.
• (v.) To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or over; to constrain; to force; to compel.
• (n.) Specifically, a printing press.
• (n.) 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.
• (v.) To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of; to squeeze out or express, from something.
• (v.) To drive with violence; to hurry; to urge on; to ply hard; as, to press a horse in a race.
• (v.) 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.
• (n.) Urgent demands of business or affairs; urgency; as, a press of engagements.
• (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; sometimes, the place or building containing a press or presses.
• (n.) A multitude of individuals crowded together; / crowd of single things; a throng.
• (v.) 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.
• (v.) To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger.
• (v.i.) 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.
• (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.
• (v.) To embrace closely; to hug.
• (n.) An upright case or closet for the safe keeping of articles; as, a clothes press.
• (v.i.) To urge with vehemence or importunity; to exert a strong or compelling influence; as, an argument presses upon the judgment.
• (n.) The act of pressing or thronging forward.
• (v.) To oppress; to bear hard upon.
• (n.) A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
• (v.) 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.
• (n.) To force into service, particularly into naval service; to impress.