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to press home

3.5

Push the Home button on a device to return to the main screen

phrasal verb

: presionar el botón de inicio

Just press home to return to the main screen.

Examples

After changing the settings, he pressed home and returned to the main screen to check the widgets.
If the app freezes, you can press home to exit and try again.
To exit the app quickly, simply press home once and wait for the launcher to appear.
She accidentally closed the game when she tried to press home during the intense level.
She pressed home the button quickly.
To quickly return to your home screen, just press home on your tablet.
When he got lost in the app, he decided to press home to start over.

Surface Forms

press home infinitive

pressed home past

pressed home past participle

pressing home present participle

presses home third person singular

Morphology

press + home

The phrase is a straightforward combination of 'press' (to push) and 'home' (the Home control or home screen); a learner who knows these senses can infer that it means pushing the Home button to return to the main screen. This is a literal, verb+object composition commonly used for device interfaces and paralleled across languages, so the meaning is directly derivable from the parts.

Etymology

Press home comes from the 'Home' button on phones and computers. You press the home key to return to the main screen, so to press home means 'to return to the home screen' or 'exit the current app'.