press

1. (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.Examples: "a flower press"countable

2. (uncountable) A crowd.Examples: "And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature."; "The press in the square grew. Something would happen now."; "Imagine the press of humanity in a crowded Parisian brasserie, circa the era when Lagerfeld would have been patronizing such joints."uncountable

3. (countable) A printing machine.Examples: "Stop the presses!"; "That books are pouring off the world’s presses at unprecedented rates is a fact often alluded to as a flood that is inundating libraries and the book trades."Synonyms: printing presscountable

4. (uncountable, collective) The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).Examples: "according to a member of the press"; "This article appeared in the press."; "From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied."collectiveuncountable

5. (countable) A publisher.countable

6. (countable, especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).Examples: "Put the cups in the press."; "Put the ironing in the linen press."; "But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…]."Synonyms: closet, cupboard, pantrycountableespecially