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pressure::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | coerce, force, hale, squeeze |
| Type of | oblige, compel, obligate |
| Has types | squeeze for, steamroll, steamroller, terrorise, terrorize, turn up the heat, turn up the pressure, railroad, bring oneself, dragoon, drive, bludgeon, sandbag |
pressure::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | press, pressing |
| Type of | pushing, push |
| Has types | compression, impression, compressing |
| Derivation | press |
he used pressure to stop the bleeding.
pressure::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | air pressure, atmospheric pressure |
| Type of | gas pressure |
| Has types | overpressure, barometric pressure, sea-level pressure, compartment pressure |
pressure::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | imperativeness, insistence, insistency, press |
| Type of | urgency |
| Derivation | press |
pressure::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | force per unit area, pressure level |
| Type of | physical phenomenon |
| Has types | radiation pressure, iop, vapour pressure, corpuscular-radiation pressure, gas pressure, head, hydrostatic head, instantaneous sound pressure, intraocular pressure, vapor pressure, oil pressure, osmotic pressure, blood pressure, sound pressure, suction |
| Derivation | pressurize, press, pressurise |
the compressed gas exerts an increased pressure.
pressure::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | pressure sensation |
| Type of | somesthesia, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation |
the sensitivity of his skin to pressure and temperature was normal.
pressure::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | distress |
Examples of pressure
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Sterling said he feels no pressure to be pro-Yankees, even though he usually is.
From the newsday.com
Initiatives launched by Lewis-McChord and the WSDOT have relieved some pressure.
From the thenewstribune.com
Your doctor then measures pressure by pulling or pushing on the pressure handle.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Every extra pound puts six to seven times that amount of pressure on your knees.
From the sacbee.com
There were about a dozen people in his team working in high-pressure situations.
From the thenewstribune.com
I continually felt the market pressure to get new product releases out the door.
From the techcrunch.com
They play a high-tempo, speedy skill game and they put a lot of pressure on you.
From the sacbee.com
All of the pressure pretty much comes from myself to live up to my expectations.
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The trend will likely grow as banks continue to feel pressure from card lending.
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- The force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit); "the compressed gas exerts an increased pressure"
- Coerce: to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information"
- A force that compels; "the public brought pressure to bear on the government"
- Blackmail: exert pressure on someone through threats
- Press: the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure; "he gave the button a press"; "he used pressure to stop the bleeding"; "at the pressing of a button"
- Imperativeness: the state of demanding notice or attention; "the insistence of their hunger"; "the press of business matters"
- "Pressure" is the first single from Canadian rapper Belly's first album, The Revolution. The song features established R&B artist Ginuwine, and it received heavy rotation on MuchMusic.
- "Pressure" is a synthesizer-driven song from 1982 by Billy Joel about difficulty dealing with the stress of daily living. The song was a single from the album The Nylon Curtain.
- Billy Ocean (born Leslie Sebastian Charles, 21 January 1950) is a Grammy Award winning popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the main British-based R&B singer / songwriter of the 1980s. ...
