hot-pressv.
/ˌhɒtˈprɛs/, U.S. /ˈhɑtˈprɛs/ Chiefly Manufacturing Technology.
transitive. To subject to hot pressing; spec. (a) to make (paper or cloth) smooth and glossy by this means; (b) to press (veneers) between heated platens in order to bond them together; (c) to shape under pressure in a heated die or mould.
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hot-press1947
1653 Perfect Diurnall No. 167 2524 (advt.) There was stoln out of a Flemish ship at St. Katherines on Friday night Febr. 11. 1652. 25 piece of mixt Serges, all hot-prest save five.
1851 Internat. Mag. Oct. 358/2 Certain classes of horn-plates..are subjected to a farther process of planing..; but in all plates which have been hot-pressed, and are intended to be stained, this is unnecessary.
1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 191 The serge is to be..hot-pressed.
1896 U.S. Patent 573,173 2/1 After the fabrics have been sewed together it is preferable to block or hot-press the front and back portions..to give shape to the parts.
1947 R. E. Kirk & D. F. Othmer Encycl. Chem. Technol. I. 561 Alloys that can be made in no other way can be produced by compressing and sintering metal powders or by hot pressing loosely compacted slugs.
1967 M. Chandler Ceramics in Mod. World vi. 173 An alternative technique for forming silicon nitride is to hot-press it.
1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 214 After the drying, the cloth is ‘hot-pressed’.
1981 Cook's Mag. Nov.–Dec. 96/2 A wine that is hot-pressed for color and fermented without skins is stillborn.
1995 Artist's & Illustrator's Mag. Apr. 24/3 Not papers are so-called because they have ‘not’ been hot pressed—but are, in fact, cold-pressed under felt blankets.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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