What's the difference between pressed and tressed?
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.
Tressed
Definition:
(a.) Having tresses.
(a.) Formed into ringlets or braided; braided; curled.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cavorting in Grantchester’s meadows, Brooke told the naked Gardner: “You’ve rather a beautiful body.” Gardner, letting her hair down, offered to dry him with her tresses, with “why shouldn’t we be primitive, now?” Her desires were obvious, but his were tormented.
(2) Recently, W. Tress has made re-commendations to mediate between both spheres by applying so-called "socio-empirical markers".
(3) Similarly anything non-solid (big, flowing tresses of hair) or clothing that conceals spaces hidden from the camera – skirts or high heels – can result in strange forms and growths.
(4) This paper is a response to Tress' methodological attempt in this journal (1988).
(5) These findings tress the importance of interacting intrinsic-hereditary and extrinsic neurogenic influences for the initiation of primary hypertension.
(6) The role of operative and other traumas, the character of preceding diseases and application of immunodepressive therapy in the reduction of the immunological reactivity of the organism is tressed.
(7) Slimane has introduced black tresse ouverte grosgrain ribbons, black boxes with a grain-de-poudre texture, and contrast of black matt and gloss on the label's bags and boxes.
(8) The decision tress allows not only the calculation of the strategy with the highest expected utility, but also threshold analysis, sensitivity analysis and cost-benefit analysis.
(9) (1) Protein synthesis in dendrites takes place mainly in the proximal parts although a slight synthetic activity can be observed along the whole dendritic tress as well.
(10) The design for the wearable ambulation unit to control the 22-channel stimulator and electrode tresses with helix electrodes has been completed.
(11) On the cover, a satanic figure grips a silky-tressed damsel in distress.
(12) A generation of postwar cinephiles rhapsodised over her earthy voluptuousness, her hourglass figure, her "bedroom eyes", her cascading brunette tresses.
(13) Male profile writers tend to refer to her "raven tresses".
(14) For evaluation of the effect of several drugs on the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical axis during stress, after testing various tress stimuli (swimming, restrain) the 15 min exposure of rats to novel environment was chosen.
(15) It is tressed that Kalii preparations, aldosterone antagonists and diets are not sufficient.
(16) The epidemic was unusual in that the infections apparently occurred as the result of adults tending their gardens and children playing under and about the tress of the area.
(17) It said: The Special Rapporteur also tresses the obligation on the part of all competent authorities, including the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic and dissident armed groups, to respect the right of internally displaced persons to seek safety in another part of the country, to leave their country and to seek asylum.