What is the name meaning of PRESS. Phrases containing PRESS
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PRESS
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English
English : variant spelling of Presnell.
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English
English : nickname from Old French prestre ‘priest’.German : derogatory nickname for a bully or tyrant, from an agent noun derivative of pressen ‘to oppress’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for someone who did ironing, from Yiddish pres ‘flat iron’ + the agent noun suffix -er.
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English
English : variant of Priestley.Americanized form of German Pressler.
Girl/Female
Biblical
A wine-press.
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English
English : occupational name for a priest’s servant, from Middle English pr(i)est ‘priest’, ‘minister’ + man ‘man’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for someone who did ironing and pressing of clothes, from Yiddish pres ‘flat iron’ + man ‘man’.
Girl/Female
Biblical
Pressed down, worn, fastened.
Girl/Female
Biblical
Digging, a wine-press.
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English
English : variant of Priest.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for someone who ironed clothes, from Yiddish pres ‘flat iron’.
Boy/Male
Biblical
Men of Gath; ie. of a wine-press.
Girl/Female
Biblical
A wine-press.
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English
English : variant of Priestley.Americanized form of German Pressler.
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English (chiefly West Midlands)
English (chiefly West Midlands) : metonymic occupational name for a fuller, from Middle English tred(en) ‘to tread’ + well ‘well’. Fulling was the process by which newly woven cloth was cleaned and shrunk by the use of heat, water, and pressure (from treading) before finally being stretched and laid out to dry on tenter hooks.
Boy/Male
Biblical
The pressing; the meditation of God.
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English
English : from Middle English prest ‘priest’ + hay, hey ‘enclosure’; a topographic name for someone who lived by a piece of enclosed church land, or a habitational name from a minor place such as Priesthaywood Farm in Wappenham, Northamptonshire.
Girl/Female
Biblical
The high wine-press.
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English
English : patronymic from Middle English prest ‘priest’, i.e. ‘son of the priest’.French : occupational name for a presser of wine or oil, from a derivative of presser ‘to press’.
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English
English : variant spelling of Presnell.
Girl/Female
Biblical
Purity, cleansing, press.
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English
English : variant of Prestwood.
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English
English : variant of Priestley.Americanized form of German Pressler.
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Tamil
Saileshwar | ஸைலேஷà¯à®µà®°Â
Boy/Male
Hindu
Lord Murugan
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Forest
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Rain; Love
Girl/Female
Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu
Broad Eye; One with Big Eyes; Large Eyed; Goddess Durga
Boy/Male
Muslim
Truthful
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English
English : topographic name for someone living in a small wooded dell or hollow, Middle English dingle (of uncertain origin). There is a district of Liverpool called Dingle.South German : nickname or status name for a smallholder, from Middle High German dingelīn ‘smallholding’.Americanized spelling of the old Prussian name Dingel or Dyngele, possibly from Germanic thing ‘legal assembly’.
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English
English : variant of Fay.Southern French : topographic name for someone who lived by a beech tree or beech wood.German : nickname for a vagrant, from Middle High German vēhe ‘enmity’, ‘strife’.German : from a popular medieval pet form of the female personal name Sophie, honored as a martyr and saint.Danish : unexplained.
Boy/Male
Australian, Danish, French
Merciful Leader
Girl/Female
American, British, English
Dark; Variant of Darcy
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n.
Pressure.
n.
Urgency; as, the pressure of business.
n.
One who presses clothes; as, a tailor's pressman.
v. t.
To pack, or prepare for packing, by means of a press.
a.
Having, employing, or exerting, a low degree of pressure.
a.
Having or involving a pressure greatly exceeding that of the atmosphere; -- said of steam, air, water, etc., and of steam, air, or hydraulic engines, water wheels, etc.
pl.
of Pressman
a.
Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation.
n.
The act of pressing; pressure.
n.
One of a tribe of wading birds (Pressirostres) including those which have a compressed beak, as the plovers.
a.
Causing, or giving rise to, pressure or to an increase of pressure; as, pressor nerve fibers, stimulation of which excites the vasomotor center, thus causing a stronger contraction of the arteries and consequently an increase of the arterial blood pressure; -- opposed to depressor.
n.
One who manages, or attends to, a press, esp. a printing press.
n.
A contrasting force or impulse of any kind; as, the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.
n.
The juice of the grape extracted by the press; also, a fee paid for the use of a wine press.
a.
Urgent; exacting; importunate; as, a pressing necessity.
n.
The art of printing from the surface of type, plates, or engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done.
n.
One of a press gang, who aids in forcing men into the naval service; also, one forced into the service.
a.
Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.
a.
Fig.: Urgent; intense; as, a high-pressure business or social life.
n.
The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.