PRESSURE
\pɹˈɛʃə], \pɹˈɛʃə], \p_ɹ_ˈɛ_ʃ_ə]\
Definitions of PRESSURE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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exert pressure on someone through threats
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a force that compels; "the public brought pressure to bear on the government"
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the somatic sensation of pressure; "the sensitivity of his skin to pressure and temperature was normal"
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an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress
By Princeton University
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exert pressure on someone through threats
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a force that compels; "the public brought pressure to bear on the government"
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the somatic sensation of pressure; "the sensitivity of his skin to pressure and temperature was normal"
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an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Electro-motive force.
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The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.
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A contrasting force or impulse of any kind; as, the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.
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Affliction; distress; grievance.
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Urgency; as, the pressure of business.
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Impression; stamp; character impressed.
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The action of a force against some obstacle or opposing force; a force in the nature of a thrust, distributed over a surface, often estimated with reference to the upon a unit's area.
By Oddity Software
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A heavy bearing down or pushing against; force or weight acting against anything; a force which drives ahead; as, to work under pressure; burden; urgent or insistent demand; as, the pressure of work.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Act of pressing: a squeezing: the state of being pressed: impulse: constraining force: that which presses or afflicts: difficulties: urgency: (physics) the action of force on something resisting it.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. Act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed ;-the action of a force against some obstacle or opposing force ;-a constraining force or impulse ; - severe affliction, distress, calamity, straits, difficulties, embarrassments, or the distress they occasion ; urgency ;-impression ; stamp or character impressed.
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