Presuming

Definition

press /pres/ n ၁။ (က) (often the press ) [Gp] စာနယ္ဇင္းႏွင့္ ေရဒီယို၊ ႐ုပ္ျမင္သံၾကားသတင္းဌာနမ်ားႏွင့္ ယင္းတို႔ရိွ သတင္းစာ ဆရာမ်ား။ 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] သတင္းစာ ေဝဖန္ခ်က္။ သတင္းစာ အာေဘာ္။ get/be given a good/bad press ❍ The company received a lot of bad press during the year. ၂။ (က) (also printing-press ) [C] ပံုႏိွပ္စက္။ The news is hot off the press (ie has just been printed in the newspapers). (ခ) [U] ပံုႏိွပ္လုပ္ငန္း။ prepare a book for press ❍ Prices are correct at the time of going to press (ie being printed). See also STOP PRESS ၃။ [C] ပံုႏိွပ္တိုက္။ Oxford University Press. ၄။ [C] ဖိစက္။ (အရည္) ညႇစ္စက္။ a trouser-press ❍ a wine-/cider-press ❍ an olive-press. ၅။ [C usu sing] လက္ (သို႔) ကိရိယာျဖင့္ ဖိေပးျခင္း။ Those shirts need a press (ie with a hot iron). ၆။ [sing] ငါးပိသိပ္ငါးခ်ဥ္သိပ္ ႁပြတ္ခဲေနေသာလူအုပ္။ He thrust his way through the press of people. ၇။ [C] ( dated ) အဝတ္အထည္ထည့္စရာ အထပ္မ်ားပါေသာ ဗီ႐ိုႀကီး။ a linen press. v ၁။ (က) ~ (sth/sb/oneself) against sth; ~ sth to sth; ~ sth together ကပ္သည္။ ဖိသည္။ ကိုက္သည္။ ေစ့သည္။ 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) ႏိွပ္သည္။ ဖိသည္။ တြန္းသည္။ 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 ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ ထည့္ေပး သည္။ press money into sb's hand. (ဃ) (အသာအယာ) ဆုပ္ သည္။ He gently pressed his wife's arm to comfort her. ၂။ ~ sb (for sth) မရမေန တိုက္တြန္းသည္။ ဖိအားေပးသည္။ 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။ ဖိေျပာသည္။ အင္တိုက္အားတိုက္ ေတာင္းဆိုသည္၊ တင္ျပသည္။ 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။ ၿပံဳတိုးသည္။ ဖိတိုးသည္။ 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) ဖိသည္။ ဖိသိပ္သည္။ ညႇပ္သည္။ press flowers ( eg between pages of a book) ❍ press the soil flat with the back of a spade. (ခ) (မီးပူ) တိုက္သည္။ My suit needs pressing. See also IRON 2 ၁ ၆။ (အရည္) ႀကိတ္သည္၊ ညႇစ္သည္။ press grapes to make wine ❍ press the juice out of/from an orange. ၇။ ဖိ၍ ညႇပ္၍ပံုသြင္းသည္။ ႐ိုက္ႏိွပ္သည္။ 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 ဇာတ္႐ံု စသည္က စာနယ္ဇင္းစသည္ တို႔တြင္ေၾကာ္ျငာထည့္ရန္၊ သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ရန္ ကိစၥမ်ားအတြက္ ခန္႔အပ္ထားသူ။ ေၾကာ္ျငာတာဝန္ခံ။ ❏ press ahead/on(with sth)[ PHRV ] ခရီးဆက္သည္။ (ဆက္လက္) ခရီးသုတ္သုတ္ႏွင္သည္။ သႏၷ ႒ိာန္မပ်က္ ဆက္လုပ္ သည္။ ‘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 (အားကစားပြဲစသည္တို႔၌) သတင္းစာဆရာမ်ား အတြက္ သီးသန္႔ေနရာ။ ❏ press conference n သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲ။ The Minister called a press conference as soon as the figures were known. ❏ press cutting ( also esp US press clipping) n = CUTTING 1 ၁ ❏ pressed adj (usu pred ) ၁။ ~ (for sth) (အခ်ိန္) မေပးႏိုင္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ (ေငြ)ျပတ္လပ္ေနေသာ။ 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 ) အက်ပ္အတည္းႏွင့္ ရင္ဆိုင္ရသည္။ ရရန္မလြယ္ပါ။ You would be hard pressed to find a better secretary. ❍ The government was pressed to retain its majority. ❏ press for sth[ PHRV ] နားပူသည္။ ပူဆာသည္။ နားပူနားဆာ လုပ္သည္။ The unions are pressing for improved working conditions. ❏ press gallery n တရား႐ံုး၊ လႊတ္ေတာ္တို႔၌ သတင္းစာဆရာ မ်ားအတြက္ သီးသန္႔ေနရာ။ ❏ press sth home[ IDM ] အခြင့္အလမ္း ပြင့္လာသည္ကို အခြင့္ေကာင္းယူ၍နင္းတိုက္သည္၊ နင္းေျပာသည္။ press home one's advantage ❍ press home an argument/an attack/a point. ❏ pressing adj အပူတျပင္း။ အေရးတႀကီး။ 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) ဖိစက္ျဖင့္ပံုသြင္းထားေသာပစၥည္း။ The factory assembles car bodies from pressings made in Japan. (ခ) ဖိစက္ျဖင့္ တစ္သုတ္ထုတ္လုပ္ထားေသာ ပံုသြင္းပစၥည္း။ The second pressing was of much higher quality than the first. ❏ press sb/sth into service [ IDM ] ရရာဆြဲသံုးရသည္။ Every type of boat was pressed into service to rescue passengers from the sinking ferry. ❏ press office n (ႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီ၊ စီးပြားလုပ္ငန္း စသည္၏) သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ေရးဌာန။ ❏ press officer n သတင္းဌာနတာဝန္ခံ။ ယင္းဌာန အမႈထမ္း။ ❏ press sth on sb[ PHRV ] အတင္းေပးသည္။ လက္ခံရန္ အတင္း တိုက္တြန္းသည္။ She kept pressing cakes and biscuits on us. ❍ The firm is trying to press new contracts on its employees. ❏ press release n သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္။ The company issued a press release to end speculation about its future. ❏ press-stud /'pres stʌd/ (also popper , US snap fastener )n ႏိွပ္ၾကယ္သီး။ ❏ press-up( US push-up) n (usu pl ) (ေလ့က်င့္ခန္း) လက္ေထာက္ေမွာက္။

Examples

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