FULL-COURT PRESS

Meaning of FULL-COURT PRESS in English

Function: noun

Date: 1952

1 : a press employed in basketball on both halves of the court

2 : an all-out effort or offensive

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary. Merriam Webster - Энциклопедический словарь английского языка. 2012

FULL-COURT PRESS — noun Date: 1952 a press employed in basketball on both halves of the court, an all-out effort or offensive
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
FULL-COURT PRESS — I. noun : a press employed in basketball on both halves of the court — called also all-court press II. …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FULL-COURT PRESS — /fool"kawrt', -kohrt'/ 1. Basketball. a tactic of harassing, close-guarding defense in which the team without the ball pressures the opponent …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FULL-COURT PRESS — Date: 1952 1. : a press employed in basketball on both halves of the court 2. : an all-out effort …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FULL-COURT PRESS — ■ noun Basketball an aggressive tactic in which members of a team cover their opponents throughout the court and not …
Concise Oxford English vocab
FULL-COURT PRESS — noun [ sing. ] ( NAmE ) 1. ( in basketball ) a way of attacking in which the members …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FULL-COURT PRESS — ˌfull-court ˈpress BrE AmE noun [singular] 1 . a method of defending in a strong way in ↑ basketball 2 …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FULL-COURT PRESS — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It also marked the start of a full-court press on the federal government. ▪ This …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
FULL-COURT PRESS — прессинг по всему полю (баскетбол) напряжение всех сил; массированное наступление
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
FULL-COURT PRESS — 1> прессинг по всему полю ( баскетбол ) 2> напряжение всех сил; массированное наступление
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
FULL-COURT PRESS — 1) прессинг по всему полю ( баскетбол ) 2) напряжение всех сил; массированное наступление
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
FULL-COURT PRESS — 1) прессинг по всему полю ( баскетбол ) 2> напряжение всех сил; массированное наступление
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
FULL-COURT PRESS — спорт. прессинг по всей площадке; перен. жесткий прессинг to put a full-court press on smb. амер. ; разг. — оказывать …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
FULL-COURT PRESS — спорт. прессинг по всей площадке; перен. жесткий прессинг to put a full-court press on smb. амер.; разг. — оказывать сильное давление …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
FULL-COURT-PRESS — 1) прессинг по всему полю (баскетбол) 2) [перен.] напряжение всех сил, массированное наступление
Morteza English-Russian Dictionary
FULL-COURT PRESS — 1) прессинг по всему полю (баскетбол) ; 2) перен. напряжение всех сил, массированное наступление
Англо-Русский словарь - Королев
FULL-COURT PRESS — прессинг по всему полю (баскетбол) напряжение всех сил; массированное наступление
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
COURT — I In architecture, an outdoor room surrounded by buildings or walls. Courts have existed in all civilizations from the earliest …
Английский словарь Британика
PRESS — I. ˈpres noun ( -es ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English presse, prees, from Old French presse, from presser …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FULL — I. ˈfu̇l adjective ( -er/-est ) Etymology: Middle English ful, full, from Old English full; akin to Old High German …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
COURT — I. ˈkō(ə) r]t, -ȯ(ə)r]t, -ōə]t, -ȯ(ə)]t, usu ]d.+V noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PRESS — press 1 — pressable , adj. /pres/ , v.t. 1. to act upon with steadily applied weight or force. 2. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FULL — full 1 — fullness , n. /fool/ , adj., fuller, fullest , adv., v., n. adj. 1. completely filled; containing …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FULL — I. ˈfu̇l also ˈfəl adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German fol full, Latin plenus …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
COURT — I. ˈkȯrt noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French curt, court, from Latin cohort-, cohors enclosure, group, retinue, …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PRESS — noun specifically, a printing press. 2. press ·noun the act of pressing or thronging forward. 3. press ·v to embrace …
Webster English vocab
FULL — (·comp) sated; surfeited. 2. full (·comp) filled with emotions. 3. full (·comp) impregnated; made pregnant. 4. full ·noun complete measure; …
Webster English vocab
COURT — noun the session of a judicial assembly. 2. court ·noun any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical. 3. court ·noun a …
Webster English vocab
FULL — [full] adj [ME, fr. OE; akin to OHG fol full, L plenus full, plere to fill, Gk pleres full, plethein …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
COURT — in architecture, an open area surrounded by buildings or walls. There have been such courts from the earliest recorded times …
Britannica English vocabulary
PRESS — press, Press BrE AmE pres ▷ pressed prest ▷ presses ˈpres ɪz -əz ▷ pressing ˈpres ɪŋ ▶ ˈ press …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
PRESS — / pres; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun NEWSPAPERS 1. (often the Press ) [ sing.+ sing./pl. v . …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FULL — / fʊl; NAmE / adjective , adverb ■ adjective ( full·er , fullest ) WITH NO EMPTY SPACE 1. full …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
COURT — / kɔːt; NAmE kɔːrt/ noun , verb ■ noun LAW 1. [ C , U ] the place where legal …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PRESS — I. press 1 S2 W2 /pres/ BrE AmE noun [ Word Family: adjective : ↑ pressed , ↑ pressing , …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FULL
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
COURT
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
PRESS — v. & n. --v. 1 tr. apply steady force to (a thing in contact) (press a switch; pressed the two …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
FULL — adj., adv., n., & v. --adj. 1 (often foll. by of) holding all its limits will allow (the bucket is …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
COURT — n. & v. --n. 1 (in full court of law) a an assembly of judges or other persons acting as …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
PRESS — v. & n. v. 1 tr. apply steady force to (a thing in contact) (press a switch; pressed the two …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
FULL — adj., adv., n., & v. adj. 1 (often foll. by of) holding all its limits will allow (the bucket is …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
COURT — n. & v. n. 1 (in full court of law) a an assembly of judges or other persons acting as …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
PRESS — 1. v. & n. --v. 1. tr. apply steady force to (a thing in contact) (press a switch; pressed the …
Oxford English vocab
FULL — 1. adj., adv., n., & v. --adj. 1. (often foll. by of) holding all its limits will allow (the bucket …
Oxford English vocab
COURT — n. & v. --n. 1. (in full court of law) a an assembly of judges or other persons acting as …
Oxford English vocab
COURT — I. NOUN USES /kɔ:(r)t/ ( courts) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PRESS — ( presses, pressing, pressed) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. If you …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FULL — ( fuller, fullest) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. If something is …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PRESS
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
FULL
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
COURT — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a case comes before a judge/court ▪ The case came before the federal courts. …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
PRESS — (NEWSPAPERS) [noun] [U] - the press newspapers and magazines, and those parts of television and radio which broadcast news, or …
Cambridge English vocab
COURT — n. Appomattox Court House Common Pleas Court of Court Margaret Smith court martial European Court of Justice High Commission Court …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
PRESS — Synonyms and related words : AP, Associated Press, Fleet Street, Reuters, UPI, United Press International, accelerate, advice, adviser, advocate, annex, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
FULL
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
COURT
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
FULL — n. bung full chock full cram full full blooded full blown full bodied full bosomed full dress full fledged full …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
COURT — I. noun 1 law ADJECTIVE ▪ civil , criminal ▪ She should seek damages through the civil ~s. ▪ The …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
PRESS — INDEX: 1. to push something firmly, especially with your fingers 2. to press something so that it becomes flatter or …
Longman Activator English vocab
FULL — INDEX: 1. full 2. to become full 3. to make something full 4. to make something full again after part …
Longman Activator English vocab
FULL — See ↑ BUSY/NOT BUSY 2, ↑ COMPLETE/NOT COMPLETE 1,2, ↑ FAT 4, ↑ FULL 1 ◆◆◆ • ↑ be full …
Longman Activator English vocab
FULL — n. 25B6; adjective her glass was full : FILLED, filled up, filled to capacity, filled to the brim, brimming, brimful. …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
FULL — adj. 1 filled, replete, brimming, brim-full, packed, jam-packed, congested, loaded, bursting, chock-a-block, chock-full or choke-full or chuck-full, jammed, crammed, solid, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary

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