{
  "id": "press.force",
  "term": "press",
  "sense": "force",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "press",
  "domain": "force",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to move an object until it is in contact with a surface",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "work.effort",
      "contact.physical",
      "motion.movement",
      "object.entity",
      "surface.exterior",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "The work of moving an object through space results in physical contact between the object and a surface over time.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "applied pressure",
      "intentional movement to contact",
      "temporal directionality"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The James Webb Space Telescope's sunshield was pressed into its final layered configuration during deployment in orbit.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "A thumb presses a thumbtack through paper into a bulletin board at 3.5 newtons of force.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "Tectonic plates press against the Mariana Trench, forcing oceanic crust into the mantle at centimeters per year.",
      "domain": "geophysics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "contact.physical",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "work.effort",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "button.tool",
    "force.push",
    "print.material"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "press",
    "pressed",
    "presses",
    "pressing"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts: object.entity, surface.exterior, and time.dimension, which are implicit in the original definition. The definition remains unchanged as it accurately reflects the "
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-press.force"
}