What's the difference between pressed and presser?
Pressed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Press
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.
Presser
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, presses.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are on the last paragraph, one hears #EUCO October 18, 2012 Mathieu von Rohr (@mathieuvonrohr) Everybody in French briefing room is getting ready for #Hollande presser #euco October 18, 2012 My colleague David Batty suggests the EU needs to introduce chess match style time control to make decisions.
(2) Used has been a blood presser manometer additionally supplied with a photoelement, a tiny electric bulb, and a metal lamelle.
(3) 1.30pm: Here's a brief summing up of the Germany presser's quotes: Hansi Flick , assistant coach: "There were 20 million people watching us last night for a German victory so thanks every much for your loyalty.
(4) Here's what Big Phil had to say in his post-match presser: "[My future] has to be decided by the president of the Brazilian Football Confederation.
(5) It is early on Tuesday morning and the four players have just arrived straight from Camp Argentina for this one last presser before football takes over in earnest.
(6) Updated at 7.54pm BST 7.19pm BST Treading lightly so as not to anger the gun lobby: Katie Hinman (@khinman) Sources tell @ danabashcnn that Toomey asked Schumer not to attend today's presser on background checks for fear of antagonizing the NRA.
(7) Olexander Turchynov, speaker of the parliament (L) and Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk hold a presser after special session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on March 2, 2014 in Kiev, Ukraine.
(8) Heck even Poyet said in his pre-match presser: “I don’t want to be playing mind games but everyone is expecting them to win.” And yet, the beauty of the beautiful game means that this game is by no means a foregone conclusion, a closed case, a door slammed shut.
(9) 10.49am BST ID9349644 asks: 'You've obviously been closer to Moyes than us, attending pressers etc.
(10) Mind tricks, funerals, emotions, and an admission that the player known as “Captain Clutch” actually feared having the ball hit to him – the press got more out of Jeter in the post-game presser than they learned in 20 years covering the baseball icon.
(11) steven morris (@stevenmorris20) Made it to Lord Smith's presser.
(12) No effect of either drug on a modified cold presser test was observed.
(13) Ed Conway (@EdConwaySky) Hilarity at WEO presser as Olivier Blanchard mistakenly plugs his headphones into a reporter’s dictaphone instead of the translation device April 8, 2014 Easily done, Olivier.....
(14) Peter Spiegel of the FT, and Matthew Dalton of the WSJ, have tweeted the key points: Peter Spiegel (@SpiegelPeter) Rehn starts presser on @EU_Commission forecasts.
(15) Unless the new Germany blow them away first ..." 2.45pm: Jermain Defoe was the player put up at England's presser today, and he claimed that "the lads are buzzing": "It was a great performance yesterday, not just winning the game but a great performance from front to back.
(16) A harried-looking press officer promised journalists the presser would still take place – but even she didn’t sound like she believed it.
(17) Studies of Presser reveal that as the intelligence quotient and understanding of the couple increases, male contraceptive methods become more popular.
(18) Cut to Turnbull grimacing his way through pressers ever since, as he tries to convince the Australian public that the Liberal plan would cost marginally less (or the same to householders) while dissembling around that old adage that you get what you pay for – or in this case, less than what we’ll pay for, with significantly less coverage, bandwidth and access for Australian internet users.
(19) Draghi must be thinking all his prayers have been answered May 2, 2013 Matina Stevis (@MatinaStevis) Seems only option left is to start a pool to get tix & hotel paid for a Cypriot hack to get to next #ECB presser May 2, 2013 2.44pm BST Draghi: we're frustrated about unemployment too The final question harks back to Pope Francis's tweet about how unemployment is caused by a "self-centred mindset bent on profit at any cost" ( see 12.16pm ).
(20) During a pre-game presser he said that he would be wearing his Pippen’s socks during the game.