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Definition: Press Down

Press Down

Verb

1. Press down; "Depress the space key".

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


Synonym: Press Down

Synonym: depress (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Press Down

English words defined with "press down": depress, DownweighpackSeam pressertamp, tamp down. (references)
Specialty definitions using "press down": MOLDING-MACHINE OPERATORNEEDLE-FELT-MAKING-MACHINE OPERATORSTRAP-FOLDING-MACHINE OPERATORTAYLORS GOOSE. (references)

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Expression: Press Down

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

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

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Modern Translation: Press Down

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 

  

(composed, leather shoes, small town, to post, to press down, to suppress), (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

   

Spanish

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Press Down

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 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 French900-1400

esquatir. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Press Down

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Press Down


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 72 65 73 73      44 6F 77 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 00100000 01000100 01101111 01110111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#115 &#32 &#68 &#111 &#119 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0065 0073 0073      0044 006F 0077 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5084718585238818980

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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