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Pressor

Definition: Pressor

Pressor

Adjective

1. (physiology) increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure; "pressor reflexes".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Pressor" is a common misspelling or typo for: presser, presswork.


Crosswords: Pressor

Specialty definitions using "pressor": Angiotensin IIIDesmopressinEndothelinsProstaglandins B, Prostaglandins DRenin-Angiotensin System. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Pressor

"Pressor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pressor" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Pressor

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "pressor": cold-pressor.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: Pressor

Derivations

Words beginning with "pressor": pressors. (additional references)

Words ending with "pressor": compressor, corepressor, depressor, oppressor, repressor, suppressor, vasopressor. (additional references)

Words containing "pressor": appressoria, appressorium, compressors, corepressors, depressors, oppressors, repressors, suppressors, vasopressors. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Pressor"

Words rhyming with "pressor" (pronounced 'Press"or'): Acceptor, Assertor, Assessor, Assistor, Assizor, Attractor, Chantor, Circumventor, Co-assessor, Collector, Compressor, Conductor, Confessor, Conjector, Connector, Consignor, Constrictor, constructor, Contractor, Contradictor, Conveyor, Corrector, Countor, Cruor, Debtor, Decolor, Deflector, Deforceor, Devisor, Duressor, Embraceor, Encolor, Escheator, flexor, grantor, ignitor, inductor, inspector, instructor, INVENTOR, investor, Mainor, Maintainor, manor, mayor, Miscolor, misdemeanor, Nonconductor, Objector, Oppressor. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Pressor

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: prosers.

Words within the letters "e-o-p-r-r-s-s"

-1 letter: posers, proser, proses, repros, ropers, spores.

-2 letters: pesos, pores, poser, poses, posse, press, prose, pross, repos, repro, roper, ropes, roses, sorer, sores, spore.

-3 letters: epos, eros, errs, opes, ores, oses, peso, pore, pose, pros, repo, reps, roes, rope, rose, sers, sops, sore.

-4 letters: err, ers, ess, oes, ope, ops, ore, ors, ose, per, pes.

 Words containing the letters "e-o-p-r-r-s-s"
 

+1 letter: aspersor, portress, presorts, pressors, prioress, progress, prospers, reposers, sporters.

 

+2 letters: aspersors, depressor, oppressor, posturers, prescores, pressroom, presswork, previsors, primroses, prisoners, processor, proestrus, professor, promisers, proposers, repressor, reprocess, resprouts, stroppers, superiors, superpros.

 

+3 letters: compressor, depressors, misreports, oppressors, portresses, postarrest, posteriors, precensors, precursors, preprocess, pressboard, pressrooms, pressworks, prioresses, processors, professors, progressed, progresses, properness, prosateurs, proscribes, prosectors, prosperous, prostrates, protesters, protestors, proviruses, pterosaurs, repression, repressors, responders, responsory, separators, sharecrops, spearworts, sportswear, superports, superroads, superstore, supervisor, supporters, suppressor, worshipers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Pressor


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 72 65 73 73 6F 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101111 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#115 &#111 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0065 0073 0073 006F 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50847185858184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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