Meet the ___ (longest-running program in US television history)
Publish date: 2024-06-11
| • | 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. |
| • | To force into service, particularly into naval service; to impress. |
| • | A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of; to squeeze out, or express, from something. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To embrace closely; to hug. |
| • | To oppress; to bear hard upon. |
| • | To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger. |
| • | To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or over; to constrain; to force; to compel. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To drive with violence; to hurry; to urge on; to ply hard; as, to press a horse in a race. |
| • | To exert pressure; to bear heavily; to push, crowd, or urge with steady force. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To urge with vehemence or importunity; to exert a strong or compelling influence; as, an argument presses upon the judgment. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Specifically, a printing press. |
| • | 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. |
| • | An upright case or closet for the safe keeping of articles; as, a clothes press. |
| • | The act of pressing or thronging forward. |
| • | Urgent demands of business or affairs; urgency; as, a press of engagements. |
| • | A multitude of individuals crowded together; / crowd of single things; a throng. |
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