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  • 1 press

    [pres] 1. verb
    1) (to use a pushing motion (against): Press the bell twice!; The children pressed close to their mother.) þrÿsta á
    2) (to squeeze; to flatten: The grapes are pressed to extract the juice.) kreista
    3) (to urge or hurry: He pressed her to enter the competition.) hvetja; reka á eftir
    4) (to insist on: The printers are pressing their claim for higher pay.) þrÿsta á, halda fast fram
    5) (to iron: Your trousers need to be pressed.) pressa
    2. noun
    1) (an act of pressing: He gave her hand a press; You had better give your shirt a press.) þrÿstingur
    2) ((also printing-press) a printing machine.) prentvél
    3) (newspapers in general: It was reported in the press; ( also adjective) a press photographer.) pressan, blöðin
    4) (the people who work on newspapers and magazines; journalists: The press is/are always interested in the private lives of famous people.) blaðamenn
    5) (a device or machine for pressing: a wine-press; a flower-press.) -pressa
    •
    - press conference
    - press-cutting
    - be hard pressed
    - be pressed for
    - press for
    - press forward/on

    English-Icelandic dictionary > press

  • 2 stop

    [stop] 1. past tense, past participle - stopped; verb
    1) (to (make something) cease moving, or come to rest, a halt etc: He stopped the car and got out; This train does not stop at Birmingham; He stopped to look at the map; He signalled with his hand to stop the bus.) stöðva(st)
    2) (to prevent from doing something: We must stop him (from) going; I was going to say something rude but stopped myself just in time.) stöðva
    3) (to discontinue or cease eg doing something: That woman just can't stop talking; The rain has stopped; It has stopped raining.) stoppa, hætta
    4) (to block or close: He stopped his ears with his hands when she started to shout at him.) loka
    5) (to close (a hole, eg on a flute) or press down (a string on a violin etc) in order to play a particular note.) loka; styðja á
    6) (to stay: Will you be stopping long at the hotel?) dvelja
    2. noun
    1) (an act of stopping or state of being stopped: We made only two stops on our journey; Work came to a stop for the day.) stans
    2) (a place for eg a bus to stop: a bus stop.) stöð
    3) (in punctuation, a full stop: Put a stop at the end of the sentence.) punktur
    4) (a device on a flute etc for covering the holes in order to vary the pitch, or knobs for bringing certain pipes into use on an organ.) loka, loftop
    5) (a device, eg a wedge etc, for stopping the movement of something, or for keeping it in a fixed position: a door-stop.) fleygur, klossi
    •
    - stopper
    - stopping
    - stopcock
    - stopgap
    - stopwatch
    - put a stop to
    - stop at nothing
    - stop dead
    - stop off
    - stop over
    - stop up

    English-Icelandic dictionary > stop

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