pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: prĕshʹ-ə
ipa: /ˈpɹɛʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ˈpɹɛʃ.ə(ɹ)]
ipa: [ˈpɹɛʃ.ɚ]
rhymes: -ɛʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pressures
Etymology: From Latin pressūra.
Senses: examples: text: Apply pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding.
glosses: A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
examples: text: the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.
text: When the pressure of danger was not felt.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XVI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: Hostile forces are putting pressure on our people. Take out their supply line to give our troops room to breathe.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Disrupt Enemy Supplies:
glosses: A contrasting force or impulse of any kind.
examples: text: She has felt pressure lately because her boss expects her to get the job done by the first.
text: My people's pressures are grievous.
ref: 1649, Eikon Basilike:
text: October 31, 1708, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd before the Queen at St. James's
In the midst of his great troubles and pressures.
text: Thirty-five years ago, many journeys around London meant having to pass through the centre of the capital. That's no longer the case, which takes real pressure off the city's termini as well as underground routes such as the Circle Line.
ref: 2020 May 20, Paul Bigland, “East London Line's renaissance”, in Rail, page 49:
glosses: Distress.
examples: the pressure of business
glosses: Urgency.
examples: text: All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
glosses: Impression; stamp; character impressed.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area; force per unit area.
Synonyms: sense: distress
word: affliction
sense: distress
word: grievance
sense: urgency
word: press
Derived terms: absolute pressure
acupressure
air pressure
ambient pressure
anthropopressure
atmospheric pressure
backpressure
barometric pressure
blood pressure
brake mean effective pressure
bursting pressure
counterpressure
depressure
diastolic blood pressure
dynamic pressure
electric pressure
equilibrium vapor pressure
gage pressure
gauge pressure
geopressure
high blood pressure
high-pressure
high-pressure liquid chromatography
hunting pressure
hydropressure
hydrostatic pressure
hydrostatic pressure relief system
I have high blood pressure
I have low blood pressure
intracranial pressure
intraocular pressure
jugular venous pressure
low-pressure
mean sea level pressure
mutation pressure
negative pressure
nonpressure
no pressure
osmotic pressure
overpressure
partial pressure
peer pressure
Planck pressure
pore water pressure
positive airway pressure
pressural
pressure altimeter
pressure altitude
pressure angle
pressure area
pressure atrophy
pressure bag
pressure bandage
pressure bar
pressure block
pressure bomb
pressure cabin
pressure cable
pressure canner
pressure casting
pressure cell
pressure centre
pressure chamber
pressure coefficient
pressure contour
pressure cooker
pressure-cooker
pressure cuff
pressure decline
pressure deflection
pressure depth
pressure distillate
pressure distribution
pressure effect
pressure element
pressure epiphysis
pressure fan
pressure field
pressure flaking
pressure flip
pressure force
pressure gauge
pressure gradient
pressure gradient force
pressure group
pressure head
pressure hull
pressure hydrophone
pressure ice
pressure injury
pressure interface
pressure ionization
pressure jump
pressureless
pressure line
pressure maintenance
pressure makes diamonds
pressure mark
pressure melting
pressuremeter
pressuremetric
pressuremetry
pressure microphone
pressure mine
pressure naphtha
pressure of speech
pressure pad
pressure paralysis
pressure pattern
pressure penitente
pressure pickup
pressure pillow
pressure pipe
pressure plate
pressure point
pressureproof
pressure radius
pressure rating
pressure regulator
pressure-retarded osmosis
pressure retarded osmosis
pressure ridge
pressure ring
pressure roll
pressure seal
pressure sense
pressure sensibility
pressure-sensitive
pressure solution
pressuresome
pressure sore
pressure suit
pressure survey
pressure switch
pressure tank
pressure tap
pressure tendency
pressure tube
pressure tunnel
pressure ulcer
pressure valve
pressure vector
pressure vessel
pressure viscosity
pressure volume diagram
pressure-wash
pressure wash
pressure-washer
pressure washer
pressurewasher
pressure wave
pressure welding
pressure wire
pressure zone
pressurise
pressurization
pressurize
pressuron
pseudopressure
pulse pressure
radiation pressure
relative pressure
repressure
root pressure
saturated vapor pressure
saturation vapor pressure
saturation vapour pressure
sleep pressure
standard temperature and pressure
systolic blood pressure
time pressure
tire-pressure
tire-pressure gauge
tyre-pressure
tyre-pressure gauge
under pressure
underpressure
vapor pressure
vapour pressure
water pressure
water vapor pressure
white coat high blood pressure
working pressure