What's the difference between nether and press?

Nether


Definition:

  • (a.) Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That shows the level of support for us.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Retired health manager Margaret Alexander, pictured with husband Gordon: ‘Why can’t our government find the money?’ Photograph: Adrian Sherratt for the Guardian Up the road at the village of Nether Stowey, retired health managers Gordon and Margaret Alexander, 84 and 78 respectively, were admiring the flowers outside Coleridge’s old cottage .
  • (2) Nether glucagon-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity nor [125I]iodoglucagon binding could be detected in the poorly differentiated hepatomas.
  • (3) By this research the percentage of school-children living in a mainly rural district in Nether Saxony whose carriage is endangered is to be stated and besides that it is to be examined whether and how far orthopedic training, practised by special nurses for physical training, can help to improve their carriage.
  • (4) The deaths occurred in what was described in court as "the nether world" of alcoholic vagrancy into which the death of her husband plunged her.
  • (5) I don't take much notice: as a frontline sergeant in a busy multicultural town in the nether regions of England, there isn't anywhere worse they can put me, and nothing they do will change the nature of my work.
  • (6) There were other people on the beach, including picnicking families, but it was not packed, and they were mainly in the water, with their nether regions hidden.
  • (7) He shows us its hollowed-out nether regions and parson’s nose in a deliberately obscene way.
  • (8) Nearest station to Nether Stowey is Bridgwater – take the bus to Williton and Minehead.
  • (9) It is nether possible nor desirable for analysis to adopt the neutral attitudes and techniques of the natural science observer.
  • (10) (Nether Alderley, Cheshire) Professor Alistair Stanyer Burns.
  • (11) Recently, as the morning sun stretched towards my bedroom window, my mind became stranded in that nether world between sleep and waking.
  • (12) The French have always suspected we were a treacherous bunch, but they've just received a poke with a sharp stick to the vinous nether regions.
  • (13) Nether the trust nor its subsidiaries are registered by the National Secretariat for Non-Governmental Organisations, a prerequisite for any such project.
  • (14) On a scale of one to childbirth, waxing your nether regions is a minor blip.
  • (15) You've just had a baby and 28 stitches in your nethers?
  • (16) Nether Stowey butcher Andrew Pope, who lives on a farm next door to the site, was more relaxed.
  • (17) OS Map: Explorer OL2: Yorkshire Dales: southern & western areas Coleridge's cottage to Wordsworth's house Somerset Quantock Hills at Coleridge Way nature walk, Nether Stowey, Somerset.
  • (18) Nether thrombosis nor stenosis of the renal veins and the inferior vena cava was present.
  • (19) Terkel disliked this nether region beneath the skyscrapers.
  • (20) Have a look at Danny's website - it's top notch ... and I'm not just saying that because he's blowing smoke up my nether regions.

Press


Definition:

  • (n.) An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to maroon and to brownish black.
  • (n.) To force into service, particularly into naval service; to impress.
  • (n.) A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
  • (v.) To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon by pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to crowd or compel by a gradual and continued exertion; to bear upon; to squeeze; to compress; as, we press the ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on which we repose; we press substances with the hands, fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd.
  • (v.) To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of; to squeeze out, or express, from something.
  • (v.) To squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus, in order to compact, make dense, or smooth; as, to press cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to press clothes.
  • (v.) To embrace closely; to hug.
  • (v.) To oppress; to bear hard upon.
  • (v.) To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger.
  • (v.) To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or over; to constrain; to force; to compel.
  • (v.) To try to force (something upon some one); to urge or inculcate with earnestness or importunity; to enforce; as, to press divine truth on an audience.
  • (v.) To drive with violence; to hurry; to urge on; to ply hard; as, to press a horse in a race.
  • (v. i.) To exert pressure; to bear heavily; to push, crowd, or urge with steady force.
  • (v. i.) To move on with urging and crowding; to make one's way with violence or effort; to bear onward forcibly; to crowd; to throng; to encroach.
  • (v. i.) To urge with vehemence or importunity; to exert a strong or compelling influence; as, an argument presses upon the judgment.
  • (n.) An apparatus or machine by which any substance or body is pressed, squeezed, stamped, or shaped, or by which an impression of a body is taken; sometimes, the place or building containing a press or presses.
  • (n.) Specifically, a printing press.
  • (n.) The art or business of printing and publishing; hence, printed publications, taken collectively, more especially newspapers or the persons employed in writing for them; as, a free press is a blessing, a licentious press is a curse.
  • (n.) An upright case or closet for the safe keeping of articles; as, a clothes press.
  • (n.) The act of pressing or thronging forward.
  • (n.) Urgent demands of business or affairs; urgency; as, a press of engagements.
  • (n.) A multitude of individuals crowded together; / crowd of single things; a throng.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) People should ask their MP to press the government for a speedier response.
  • (2) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
  • (3) Channel 4 News said on Friday that Manji and the programme’s producer, ITN, had made an official complaint to press regulator Ipso.
  • (4) All aircraft exited the strike areas safely.” Earlier, residents living near the Mosul dam told the Associated Press the area was being targeted by air strikes.
  • (5) Since the employment of microwave energy for defrosting biological tissues and for microwave-aided diagnosis in cryosurgery is very promising, the problem of ensuring the match between the contact antennas (applicators) and the frozen biological object has become a pressing one.
  • (6) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
  • (7) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
  • (8) In this experiment animals were trained to lever press in two distinctive contexts.
  • (9) Older women and those who present more archetypically as butch have an easier time of it (because older women in general are often sidelined by the press and society) and because butch women are often viewed as less attractive and tantalising to male editors and readers.
  • (10) Following each stimulus, the subject had to press a button for RT and then report the digit perceived.
  • (11) 12pm, Channel 4 press office: "I refer you to the statement put out last night."
  • (12) Experimental animals pressed the S+ bar at a significantly higher rate than the S- bar.
  • (13) The home secretary was today pressed to explain how cyber warfare could be seen as being on an equal footing to the threat from international terrorism.
  • (14) Pekka Isosomppi Press counsellor, Finnish embassy, London • It may have been said tongue in cheek, but I must correct Michael Booth on one thing – his claim that no one talks about cricket in Denmark .
  • (15) She said a referendum was off the table for this general election but, pressed on whether it would be in the SNP manifesto for 2016, she responded: “We will write that manifesto when we get there.
  • (16) The Press Association tots up a total of £26bn in asset sales last year – including the state’s Eurostar stake, 30% of the Royal Mail and a slice of Lloyds.
  • (17) When S+ followed cocaine, stereotyped bar-pressing developed with markedly increased responding during the remainder of the session.
  • (18) The deteriorating situation would worsen if ministers pressed ahead with another controversial Lansley policy – that of abolishing the cap on the amount of income semi-independent foundation trust hospitals can make by treating private patients.
  • (19) According to Australian Associated Press the woman made an official complaint to police on Wednesday morning and supplied some evidence.
  • (20) The £1m fine, proposed during the Leveson inquiry into press standards, was designed to demonstrate how seriously the industry was taking lessons learned after the failure of the Press Complains Commission tto investigate phone hacking at the News of the World.