press conference

US pronunciation

American soundpress conference

pressconference

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Final e often stays silent

press - conference -> press conference

Myanmar meaning

သတင်းစာရှင်းလင်းပွဲ။

Full entry

press /pres/ n

၁။ (က) (often the press ) [Gp] စာနယ်ဇင်းနှင့် ရေဒီယို၊ ရုပ်မြင်သံကြားသတင်းဌာနများနှင့် ယင်းတို့ရှိ သတင်းစာ ဆရာများ။ The Press was/were not allowed to attend the trial. ❍ The incident was widely reported in the press. ❍ the local/ national/ foreign press ❍ a press photographer ❍ issue a press statement (ie one to the press) ❍ the music press (ie newspapers and magazines about music, esp pop music) ❍ the freedom of the press/press freedom (ie the right of journalists to report events and express opinions freely). Compare MEDIA See also GUTTER PRESS (ခ) [U, sing] သတင်းစာ ဝေဖန်ချက်။ သတင်းစာ အာဘော်။ get/be given a good/bad press ❍ The company received a lot of bad press during the year.
၂။ (က) (also printing-press ) [C] ပုံနှိပ်စက်။ The news is hot off the press (ie has just been printed in the newspapers). (ခ) [U] ပုံနှိပ်လုပ်ငန်း။ prepare a book for press ❍ Prices are correct at the time of going to press (ie being printed). See also STOP PRESS
၃။ [C] ပုံနှိပ်တိုက်။ Oxford University Press.
၄။ [C] ဖိစက်။ (အရည်) ညှစ်စက်။ a trouser-press ❍ a wine-/cider-press ❍ an olive-press.
၅။ [C usu sing] လက် (သို့) ကိရိယာဖြင့် ဖိပေးခြင်း။ Those shirts need a press (ie with a hot iron).
၆။ [sing] ငါးပိသိပ်ငါးချဉ်သိပ် ပြွတ်ခဲနေသောလူအုပ်။ He thrust his way through the press of people.
၇။ [C] (dated ) အဝတ်အထည်ထည့်စရာ အထပ်များပါသော ဗီရိုကြီး။ a linen press.
v
၁။ (က) ~ (sth/sb/oneself) against sth; ~ sth to sth; ~ sth together ကပ်သည်။ ဖိသည်။ ကိုက်သည်။ စေ့သည်။ The child pressed her face against the window. ❍ He pressed a handkerchief to his nose. ❍ She pressed her lips together. ❍ My boot is pressing against a blister on my toe.
(ခ) နှိပ်သည်။ ဖိသည်။ တွန်းသည်။ press a button/switch/key ❍ He pressed the buzzer on his intercom. ❍ Press (here) to open. ❍ The driver pressed (down) hard on the accelecator. ❍ She pressed the door/lid firmly shut.
(ဂ) ~ sth into/onto sth သေသေချာချာ ထည့်ပေး သည်။ press money into sb's hand.
(ဃ) (အသာအယာ) ဆုပ် သည်။ He gently pressed his wife's arm to comfort her.
၂။ ~ sb (for sth) မရမနေ တိုက်တွန်းသည်။ ဖိအားပေးသည်။ When/If pressed, he will admit that he knew about the affair. ❍ The bank is pressing us for repayment of the loan. ❍ They are pressing us to make a quick decision.
၃။ ဖိပြောသည်။ အင်တိုက်အားတိုက် တောင်းဆိုသည်၊ တင်ပြသည်။ I don't wish to press the point, but you do owe me £ 200. ❍ She is still pressing her claim for compensation. ❍ They were determined to press their case at the highest level.
၄။ ပြုံတိုးသည်။ ဖိတိုးသည်။ The photographers pressed round the royal visitors. ❍ The crowds were pressing ( forward) against the barriers. ❍ (fig ) all the unwelcome thoughts that were pressing in on him.
၅။ (က) ဖိသည်။ ဖိသိပ်သည်။ ညှပ်သည်။ press flowers ( eg between pages of a book) ❍ press the soil flat with the back of a spade.
(ခ) (မီးပူ) တိုက်သည်။ My suit needs pressing. See also IRON² ၁
၆။ (အရည်) ကြိတ်သည်၊ ညှစ်သည်။ press grapes to make wine ❍ press the juice out of/from an orange.
၇။ ဖိ၍ ညှပ်၍ပုံသွင်းသည်။ ရိုက်နှိပ်သည်။ a machine for pressing gramophone records ❍ press car bodies out of sheets of metal ❍ press out shapes from a piece of card.
❏ press agency n = NEWS AGENCY
❏ press agent n ဇာတ်ရုံ စသည်က စာနယ်ဇင်းစသည် တို့တွင်ကြော်ငြာထည့်ရန်၊ သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ရန် ကိစ္စများအတွက် ခန့်အပ်ထားသူ။ ကြော်ငြာတာဝန်ခံ။
❏ press ahead/on(with sth)[PHRV] ခရီးဆက်သည်။ (ဆက်လက်) ခရီးသုတ်သုတ်နှင်သည်။ သန္န ဋ္ဌိာန်မပျက် ဆက်လုပ် သည်။ ‘Shall we stay here for the night?’ ‘No, let's press on. ’ ❍ The company is pressing ahead with its plans for a new warehouse.
❏ press-box n (အားကစားပွဲစသည်တို့၌) သတင်းစာဆရာများ အတွက် သီးသန့်နေရာ။
❏ press conference n သတင်းစာရှင်းလင်းပွဲ။ The Minister called a press conference as soon as the figures were known.
❏ press cutting ( also esp US press clipping) n = CUTTING¹ ၁
❏ pressed adj (usu pred )
၁။ ~ (for sth) (အချိန်) မပေးနိုင်ဖြစ်သော။ (ငွေ)ပြတ်လပ်နေသော။ We're a bit pressed — can I call you back later? ❍ I'm very pressed for cash at the moment — can I pay you next week?
၂။ ~ (to do sth ) အကျပ်အတည်းနှင့် ရင်ဆိုင်ရသည်။ ရရန်မလွယ်ပါ။ You would be hard pressed to find a better secretary. ❍ The government was pressed to retain its majority.
❏ press for sth[PHRV ] နားပူသည်။ ပူဆာသည်။ နားပူနားဆာ လုပ်သည်။ The unions are pressing for improved working conditions.
❏ press gallery n တရားရုံး၊ လွှတ်တော်တို့၌ သတင်းစာဆရာ များအတွက် သီးသန့်နေရာ။
❏ press sth home[IDM ] အခွင့်အလမ်း ပွင့်လာသည်ကို အခွင့်ကောင်းယူ၍နင်းတိုက်သည်၊ နင်းပြောသည်။ press home one's advantage ❍ press home an argument/an attack/a point.
❏ pressing adj အပူတပြင်း။ အရေးတကြီး။ deal with the most pressing matters/problems/questions first ❍ a pressing need for more nurses ❍ He left the meeting early, saying he had a pressing engagement.
n (က) ဖိစက်ဖြင့်ပုံသွင်းထားသောပစ္စည်း။ The factory assembles car bodies from pressings made in Japan. (ခ) ဖိစက်ဖြင့် တစ်သုတ်ထုတ်လုပ်ထားသော ပုံသွင်းပစ္စည်း။ The second pressing was of much higher quality than the first.
❏ press sb/sth into service [IDM] ရရာဆွဲသုံးရသည်။ Every type of boat was pressed into service to rescue passengers from the sinking ferry.
❏ press office n (နိုင်ငံရေးပါတီ၊ စီးပွားလုပ်ငန်း စသည်၏) သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ရေးဌာန။
❏ press officer n သတင်းဌာနတာဝန်ခံ။ ယင်းဌာန အမှုထမ်း။
❏ press sth on sb[PHRV ] အတင်းပေးသည်။ လက်ခံရန် အတင်း တိုက်တွန်းသည်။ She kept pressing cakes and biscuits on us. ❍ The firm is trying to press new contracts on its employees.
❏ press release n သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ချက်။ The company issued a press release to end speculation about its future.
❏ press-stud /'pres stʌd/ (also popper, US snap fastener)n နှိပ်ကြယ်သီး။
❏ press-up(US push-up) n (usu pl ) (လေ့ကျင့်ခန်း) လက်ထောက်မှောက်။

More examples

The national/local/American/sports press
The popular/tabloid press
[in the press] : She has been criticized in the press for not speaking out on this issue.
She finally emerged from her home to face the press.
It’s a meeting for shareholders only, and the press are excluded.
A crowd of press photographers
The story has received extensive press coverage (=reports in newspapers).
His first book was published by Edinburgh University Press.
A trouser press
A garlic press
[give something a press] : He gave the buzzer one long press.
[at the press of a button] : Internet shopping brings the shop to your door at the simple press of a button.
[give something a press] : I’ll just give my trousers a quick press and then I’m ready.
He pushed his way through the press of people.

Synonyms

push, depress, force down, bear down on, compress, squash, afflict, assail, bear down, bear heavily, beg, beset, besiege, bug, bulldoze, bunch, bustle, buttonhole, clasp, cluster, columnist, come at, compel, condense, confusion, constrain, correspondent, correspondents, crawler, crowd, crush, cumber, demand, disquiet, drove, editor, embrace, enfold, enjoin, entreat, exhort, express, filler, finish, flatten, flock, force, fourth estate, harass, harrier, hassle, haste, herd, hold, horde, host, hot-press, hound, huddle, hug, hurry, impel, implore, importune, infest, insist on, interviewer, iron, jam, journalism, journalist, journalists, large group, lean on, level, lobby, magazine, mangle, mash, mass, media, mill, mob, move, multitude, newspaper, newspapers, newsperson, oblige, oppress, overspread, pack, packer, paper, periodical, petition, photographer, pile, pin down, plague, plead, pressure, pressurize, print media, promotional, publicist, publisher, pursue, railroad, ram, reduce, reporter, reporters, rush, sadden, scrunch, sell, shove, smooth, squeeze, squish, steam, strain, stress, stuff, sue, supplicate, surge, swarm, swarmer, throng, thrust, torment, trouble, unwrinkle, urge, urgency, vex, weigh, weigh down, work on, worrier, worry, writer

Antonyms

aid, answer, assist, build, calm, cheer, comfort, construct, delay, delight, discourage, dissuade, encourage, expand, extend, give, gladden, harmony, help, increase, keep, leave alone, let go, maintain, make happy, peace, please, pull, raise, relaxation, release, rest, slowness, soothe, uncompress