Press On

Definition: Press On

Press On

Verb

1. Continue moving forward.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Press On

Course

Verb: elapse, lapse, flow, run, proceed, advance, pass; roll on, wear on, press on; flit, fly, slip, slide, glide; run its course.

Haste

Verb: haste, hasten; make haste, make a dash; Noun: hurry on, dash on, whip on, push on, press on, press forward; hurry, skurry, scuttle along, barrel along, bundle on, dart to and fro, bustle, flutter, scramble; plunge, plunge headlong; dash off; rush; (violence); express.

Pursuit

Verb: pursue, prosecute, follow; run after, make after, be after, hunt after, prowl after; shadow; carry on; (do); engage in; (undertake); set about; (begin); endeavor; court; (request) seek; (search); aim at; (intention); follow the trail; (trace); fish for; (experiment); press on; (haste); run a race; (velocity).

Sequence

Verb: advance; proceed, progress; get on, get along, get over the ground; gain ground; forge ahead; jog on, rub on, wag on; go with the stream; keep one;s course, hold on one's course; go on, move on, come one, get on, pass on, push on, press on, go forward, move forward, come forward, get forward, pass forward, push forward, press forward, go forwards, move forwards, come forwards, get forwards, pass forwards, push forwards, press forwards, go ahead, move ahead, come ahead, get ahead, pass ahead, push ahead, press ahead; make one's way, work one's way, carve one's way, push one's way, force one's way, edge one's way, elbow one's way; make progress, make head, make way, make headway, make advances, make strides, make rapid strides; (velocity); go ahead, shoot ahead; distance; make up leeway.

Crosswords: Press On

You've got to go forwards to go back, better press on. (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; writing credit: Roald Dahl)

Lea Press on Limbs (1988)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The White House Press on the presidency : news managment and co-option (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Press on (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Health

In some cases, however, pain can occur when cysts enlarge and press on other organs. (references)

For instance, pituitary tumors may press on the optic nerve, causing problems with vision. (references)

Civil Liberties

Ukraine

The dependence of some of the press on government patronage has inhibited criticism, particularly at the local level. (references)

Human Rights

Algeria

Jailed oppositionist and FIS vice president Ali Belhadj, who had been held incommunicado from 1992 until 1998, was allowed contact with members of his family, who spoke to the press on his behalf. (references)

Minorities

Mexico

However, this report was not confirmed, and a representative from the CNDH told the press on April 19 that there are no official statistics on the displaced. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "press on": press on with. Additional references.

Albanian

vazhdoj (carry on, carry over, continue, extend, go ahead, go on, hold on, hold over, keep, keep on, maintain, pick up, proceed, prosecute, pursue, push on, run, spread). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تقدم بسرعة (hurtle), ‏سارع ب. (various references)

Bulgarian 

бързам напред (press forward), притискам се (press forward). (various references)

Chinese 

逼近 (approach, close in on, draw near, press on towards), 逼 (close, close in on, compel, drive, extort, force, press for, press on towards, press up to). (various references)

Czech

pospíchat (haste, hurry, post, push on, rush), vytrvat (hang on, hold on, hold out, persevere, persist, soldier on), naléhat (insist on, urge, urge on). (various references)

French

continuer vite, continuer � faire, continuer (proceed, proceed with, produce). (various references)

German

weiterfahren (carry on driving, continue, drive on, go on, keep, keep on, move along, move on, proceed, push on, travel on), aufnötigen (force, force on, impose, impose on), aufdrücken (force open, give a kiss, give a quick peck, impress, imprint, open by pressing, stamp on). (various references)

Greek 

συνεχίζω σα να μην τρέχει τίποτα (press on regardless). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תק�"ם במרץ. (various references)

Hungarian

siettet (accelerate, anticipate, bustle, expedite, hasten, hurry, hurry up, to accelerate, to antedate, to anticipate, to be not slow to, to expedite, to precipitate, to press forward, to press on, urge), ráerõltet. (various references)

Italian

continuare (continue, go, go on, hold, keep, keep on, last, pick up, ply, proceed, proceed with, prosecute, push on, stand). (various references)

Manx

chionney roish, arral (gambit, offer, proffer). (various references)

Pig Latin

esspray onay

Spanish

seguir adelante (carry on, go ahead, go off, go on, keep on, press forward, push ahead, ride on, set on, thrust forward), avanzar rápidamente, apresurarse (bucket, bustle, go fast, hasten, hurry, jump at, press forward, quicken, rush, speed), apresurar (bustle, crowd, force, hie, hurry, hustle, precipitate, press forward, push, rush, to press, to rush). (various references)

Swedish

pressa på, trycka fast. (various references)

Turkish

üşüşmek (crowd, flock, pour, swarm, swarm to a place, throng). (various references)

incumbebat, incumbit, insistebant, insistentes, insistere, institerit, tendat, tendebant, tendebatur, tendens, tendent, tendentem, tendentes, tenderent, tendit, tendunt, tetenderat, tetenderunt, tetenderuntque, tetendit, tetenditque. (various references)

Misspellings

"Press On" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: presson. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: persons.

-1 letter: person, posers, proses, senors, sensor, snores, spores.

-2 letters: noses, opens, peons, pesos, pones, pores, porns, poser, poses, posse, press, prone, prose, pross, repos, ropes, roses, senor, snore, sones, sores, sorns, spore.

-3 letters: eons, epos, erns, eros, ness, noes, nope, nose, ones, open, opes, ores, oses, pens, peon, peso, pone, pons, pore, porn, pose.

+1 letter: personas, poorness, posterns, responds, responsa, response, ropiness, snoopers, spongers.

+2 letters: aspersion, conspires, incorpses, isoprenes, nephroses, nephrosis, overspins, patroness, personals, poisoners, preseason, prisoners, prognoses, proneness, prosiness, psoralens, pyranoses, responses, responsum, splendors, sponsored, sportsmen, sternpost, suspensor, transpose, unpersons.

+3 letters: aspersions, censorship, copresents, depression, dispersion, dripstones, endosperms, endospores, expression, impression, inspectors, interposes, laypersons, necropsies, newsgroups, newsperson, nonpersons, nonprossed, nonprosses, noospheres, oppressing, oppression, overspends, ownerships, parsonages, patronises, pensioners, percussion, perfusions, permission, persimmons, personages, personates, personnels, persuasion, pervasions, ponderosas, poornesses, porousness, portliness, postponers, precensors, precession, precisions, prelusions, preseasons, previsions, processing, procession, professing, profession, progestins, promptness, properness, repression, repulsions, responders, responsive, responsory, ropinesses, shipowners, splendours, splendrous, spoonerism, sportiness, sternposts, stonecrops, sunporches, supernovas, supersonic, suspensors, suspensory, transposed, transposes, unstoppers.