pressure
See also: pressuré
English
Etymology
From Old French, from Latin pressūra.
Pronunciation
- enPR: prĕshʹ-ə(r), IPA(key): /ˈpɹɛʃə(ɹ)/
- (UK) IPA(key): [ˈpɹɛʃ.ə(ɹ)]
- (US) IPA(key): [ˈpɹɛʃ.ɚ]
Audio (US) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɛʃə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: pres‧sure
Noun
pressure (countable and uncountable, plural pressures)
- A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
- Apply pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding.
- A contrasting force or impulse of any kind
- the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 16, 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 1069526323:
- When the pressure of danger was not felt.
- 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, OCLC 1261299044, PC, scene: Disrupt Enemy Supplies:
- Hostile forces are putting pressure on our people. Take out their supply line to give our troops room to breathe.
- Distress.
- She has felt pressure lately because her boss expects her to get the job done by the first.
- 1649, Eikon Basilike
- My people's pressures are grievous.
- 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.
- 2020 May 20, Paul Bigland, “East London Line's renaissance”, in Rail, page 49:
- 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.
- Urgency
- the pressure of business
- (obsolete) Impression; stamp; character impressed.
- 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 606515358, [Act I, scene v]:
- All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past.
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- (physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area; force per unit area.
Synonyms
- (distress): affliction, grievance
- (urgency): press
Derived terms
- absolute pressure
- acupressure
- air pressure
- ambient pressure
- atmospheric pressure
- backpressure
- blood pressure
- brake mean effective pressure
- bursting pressure
- counterpressure
- depressure
- dynamic pressure
- electric pressure
- gauge pressure
- geopressure
- high-pressure
- high-pressure liquid chromatography
- hydropressure
- hydrostatic pressure
- hydrostatic pressure relief system
- intraocular pressure
- negative pressure
- no pressure
- osmotic pressure
- overpressure
- partial pressure
- peer pressure
- 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 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 group
- pressure head
- pressure hull
- pressure hydrophone
- pressure ice
- pressure interface
- pressure ionization
- pressure jump
- pressureless
- pressure line
- pressure maintenance
- pressure makes diamonds
- pressure mark
- pressure melting
- pressuremeter
- pressure microphone
- pressure mine
- pressure naphtha
- pressure of speech
- pressure pad
- pressure paralysis
- pressure pattern
- pressure penitente
- pressure pickup
- pressure pillow
- pressure pipe
- pressure point
- pressure radius
- pressure rating
- pressure regulator
- pressure retarded osmosis
- pressure ridge
- pressure ring
- pressure roll
- pressure seal
- pressure sense
- pressure sensibility
- pressure-sensitive
- pressure solution
- pressure sore
- pressure suit
- pressure survey
- pressure tank
- pressure tap
- pressure tendency
- pressure tube
- pressure tunnel
- pressure ulcer
- pressure valve
- pressure vector
- pressure vessel
- pressure viscosity
- pressure volume diagram
- pressure washer
- pressure wave
- pressure welding
- pressure wire
- pressure zone
- pressurize
- radiation pressure
- relative pressure
- repressure
- root pressure
- saturation vapor pressure
- standard temperature and pressure
- systolic blood pressure
- tire-pressure
- tire-pressure gauge
- under pressure
- underpressure
- vapor pressure
- white coat high blood pressure
- working pressure
Translations
a pressing; force applied to a surface
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a contrasting force or impulse of any kind
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mental strain
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physics: amount of force divided by area
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Verb
pressure (third-person singular simple present pressures, present participle pressuring, simple past and past participle pressured)
- (transitive) To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.
- Do not let anyone pressure you into buying something you do not want.
Translations
exert force or influence
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See also
- (units of pressure): pascal (Pa); bar, barye (Ba); pounds per square inch (psi, lbf/in2, lb/in2), torr, mmHg, atmosphere (atm)
Anagrams
- perusers
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: pressurent, pressures
Verb
pressure
- inflection of pressurer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Latin
Participle
pressūre
- vocative masculine singular of pressūrus
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pressūra.
Noun
pressure f (oblique plural pressures, nominative singular pressure, nominative plural pressures)
- pressure (action or result of pressing)
Descendants
- → English: pressure