presser
See also: Presser
English
Etymology 1
press (verb) + -er (“agent -er”)
Pronunciation
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
presser (plural pressers)
- A person, device, or agent that presses or squeezes, as:
- Visiting a traditional vineyard, we watched the grape pressers treading the grapes underfoot.
- 1977, Billboard (volume 89, number 46)
- That's the name of the people who make the polystyrene compound used by pressers of records that don't warp.
- A member of a press-gang, who forces (presses) others into service.
- 2012, Sophia Kingshill, The Estate of Jennifer Westwood, The Fabled Coast
- Overnight, North Shields was cordoned off by soldiers while the pressers descended in force, and left with a haul of more than two hundred and fifty men, including sailors, mechanics, and every kind of labourer.
- 2012, Sophia Kingshill, The Estate of Jennifer Westwood, The Fabled Coast
- A person or device that removes wrinkles, usually from clothing.
- See also: ironing
- 1950, Carl Jonas, Snowslide (page 142)
- He saw the man who did the cleaning and pressing for the hotel, a man whom he had always seen before in the gloom of the pressing shop sweating over a steam presser.
- (medicine) Alternative spelling of pressor: Synonym of vasopressor.
Etymology 2
press (“press release/press conference”) + -er (“Variety -er”)
Noun
presser (plural pressers)
- (media, informal) A press release.
- (media, informal) A press conference or press briefing.
- Synonyms: newser, pressie
- 2022 May 18, Paul Karp, “Australian election briefing: Scott Morrison bulldozes a kid while Anthony Albanese takes the stage”, in The Guardian:
- At the presser, [Scott] Morrison confirmed that the petrol tax of 22 cents a litre will go back to 44 cents after six months despite prices nudging $2 a litre again; […]
Anagrams
- repress
French
Etymology
From Latin pressāre, present active infinitive of pressō, frequentative of premō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʁɛ.se/, /pʁe.se/
audio (file)
Verb
presser
- (transitive) to urge
- (transitive) to squeeze, to squash
- (transitive) to hurry, to hurry up
- (reflexive) to hurry up
- (reflexive) to press against each other, to flock
Conjugation
Conjugation of presser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | presser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pressant /pʁɛ.sɑ̃/ or /pʁe.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pressé /pʁɛ.se/ or /pʁe.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | presse /pʁɛs/ | presses /pʁɛs/ | presse /pʁɛs/ | pressons /pʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /pʁe.sɔ̃/ | pressez /pʁɛ.se/ or /pʁe.se/ | pressent /pʁɛs/ |
| imperfect | pressais /pʁɛ.sɛ/ or /pʁe.sɛ/ | pressais /pʁɛ.sɛ/ or /pʁe.sɛ/ | pressait /pʁɛ.sɛ/ or /pʁe.sɛ/ | pressions /pʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /pʁe.sjɔ̃/ | pressiez /pʁɛ.sje/ or /pʁe.sje/ | pressaient /pʁɛ.sɛ/ or /pʁe.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pressai /pʁɛ.se/ or /pʁe.se/ | pressas /pʁɛ.sa/ or /pʁe.sa/ | pressa /pʁɛ.sa/ or /pʁe.sa/ | pressâmes /pʁɛ.sam/ or /pʁe.sam/ | pressâtes /pʁɛ.sat/ or /pʁe.sat/ | pressèrent /pʁɛ.sɛʁ/ or /pʁe.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | presserai /pʁɛ.sʁe/ or /pʁe.sʁe/ | presseras /pʁɛ.sʁa/ or /pʁe.sʁa/ | pressera /pʁɛ.sʁa/ or /pʁe.sʁa/ | presserons /pʁɛ.sʁɔ̃/ or /pʁe.sʁɔ̃/ | presserez /pʁɛ.sʁe/ or /pʁe.sʁe/ | presseront /pʁɛ.sʁɔ̃/ or /pʁe.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | presserais /pʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /pʁe.sʁɛ/ | presserais /pʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /pʁe.sʁɛ/ | presserait /pʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /pʁe.sʁɛ/ | presserions /pʁɛ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /pʁe.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ | presseriez /pʁɛ.sə.ʁje/ or /pʁe.sə.ʁje/ | presseraient /pʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /pʁe.sʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | presse /pʁɛs/ | presses /pʁɛs/ | presse /pʁɛs/ | pressions /pʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /pʁe.sjɔ̃/ | pressiez /pʁɛ.sje/ or /pʁe.sje/ | pressent /pʁɛs/ |
| imperfect2 | pressasse /pʁɛ.sas/ or /pʁe.sas/ | pressasses /pʁɛ.sas/ or /pʁe.sas/ | pressât /pʁɛ.sa/ or /pʁe.sa/ | pressassions /pʁɛ.sa.sjɔ̃/ or /pʁe.sa.sjɔ̃/ | pressassiez /pʁɛ.sa.sje/ or /pʁe.sa.sje/ | pressassent /pʁɛ.sas/ or /pʁe.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | presse /pʁɛs/ | — | pressons /pʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /pʁe.sɔ̃/ | pressez /pʁɛ.se/ or /pʁe.se/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
- pressant
- pressé
- presser la détente
- presser le pas
- pression
- se presser le citron
Further reading
- “presser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
presser m or f
- indefinite plural of presse
Verb
presser
- present tense of presse
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
presser f
- indefinite plural of presse