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Definition: Press Down |
Press DownVerb1. Press down; "Depress the space key". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Press DownSynonym: depress (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Press Down |
| English words defined with "press down": depress, Downweigh ♦ pack ♦ Seam presser ♦ tamp, tamp down. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "press down": MOLDING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ NEEDLE-FELT-MAKING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ STRAP-FOLDING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ TAYLORS GOOSE. (references) |
Expression using "press down": press down on. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "press down"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | тежа (attach, ride, scale, weigh, weigh on, weigh upon), натискам (depress, hold down, jam, press, push down), притискам (constrict, embosom, jam, pin, pin down, pinch, press, screw, snuggle, squeeze, strain, strangulate, throng, weight down). (various references) | ||||||||||
Chinese | 鎮 (composed, leather shoes, small town, to post, to press down, to suppress), 捺 (press down firmly), " (to press down). (various references) | ||||||||||
Czech | stlaèit (compress, depress, pull down, squeeze). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | herabdrücken. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | πλακώνω (bury under, crash down, crash upon). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | lesimít (even, sleek, smarm, to bur, to burr, to level down, to press down, to scrape, to sleek, to slick down, to smarm, to smooth). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | calcare (emphasize, limestone, ram). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 組敷く (to hold down, to pin down, to press down), 組み敷く (to hold down, to pin down, to press down), 押さえ付ける (to hold down, to pin down, to press down, to repress), 押さえる (to press down, to repress, to restrain, to seize, to stop, to suppress), 押えつける (to hold down, to pin down, to press down, to repress), 押え付ける (to hold down, to pin down, to press down, to repress), 押える (to press down, to repress, to restrain, to seize, to stop, to suppress), 抑え付ける (to hold down, to pin down, to press down, to repress). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | おさえつける (to hold down, to pin down, to press down, to repress), おさえる (to arrest, to check, to control, to curb, to press down, to repress, to restrain, to seize, to stop, to suppress), くみしく (to hold down, to pin down, to press down). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | broojey sheese (depress), broo sheese (depress). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | esspray ownday apretar (bind, clasp, clench, clutch, constrain, constrict, cramp, fasten, grasp, grip, hug, oppress, pack down, pinch, press, pull, purse, push, push down, quicken, ram, screw, snuggle, squeeze, subtend, tighten, tighten up, turn, turn on). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | oppressa, oppresserat, oppresserunt, oppressi, oppressisti, oppressit, oppresso, oppressos, oppressum, oppressura, opprimamus, opprimantur, opprimaris, opprimas, opprimat, opprimatis, opprimebant, opprimens, opprimentes, opprimere, opprimerent, opprimes, opprimet, opprimetur, opprimi, opprimitur, opprimunt, premo, premo pressi pressum. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | esquatir. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-n-o-p-r-s-s-w" | |
-1 letter: responds. | |
-2 letters: downers, dowsers, drowses, persons, ponders, powders, prowess, respond, sonders, wonders, worsens. | |
-3 letters: dopers, dosers, dosser, dowers, downer, dowser, dowses, drones, drowns, drowse, endows, owners, pedros, person, ponder, posers, powder, powers, prosed, proses, redons, resods, resown, resows, rowens, senors, sensor, serows, snored, snores, snowed, sonder, sondes, sorned, sowens, sowers, spends, spodes, spored. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-n-o-p-r-s-s-w" | |
+5 letters: landownerships. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 65 73 73      44 6F 77 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 00100000 01000100 01101111 01110111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r e s s   D o w n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0065 0073 0073      0044 006F 0077 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5084718585238818980 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Expressions | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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