Difference between Press and Exhort

What is the difference between Press and Exhort?

Press as a verb is to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight while Exhort as a verb is to urge; to advise earnestly.

Press

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A device used to apply pressure to an item. A collective term for the print based media (both the people and the newspapers) An enclosed storage space (eg closet, cupboard). A printing machine. An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight to compress, squeeze to clasp, hold in an embrace; to hug to reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding, motion, so as to avoid disturbing adjacent areas. to drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction to weigh upon, oppress, trouble to force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly, impel to hasten, urge onward to urge, beseech, entreat to lay stress upon, emphasize to throng, crowd to print

Example sentence: The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy - the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities - which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.

Exhort

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To urge; to advise earnestly.

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