Pressing

Definition: Pressing

Pressing

Adjective

1. Compelling immediate action; "too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"; "bridges in urgent need of repair".

Noun

1. 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".

2. A metal or plastic part that is made by a mechanical press.

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

Date "pressing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Chemical Industry

Food & Agriculture

Industry

Metallurgy

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

Synonyms: Pressing

Importance

Urgent, pressing, critical, instant.

Requirement

Urgent, exigent, pressing, instant, crying, absorbing.

Crosswords: Pressing

I thought the hardest part was that pressing need of yours to get your gun off. (Mission: Impossible II; writing credit: Bruce Geller; Ronald D. Moore)

Pressing charges (Chasing Amy; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to discuss it with a single soul (Sense and Sensibility; writing credit: Emma Thompson)

The controller handle has to have a man's hand pressing down on it hard at all times (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three; writing credit: John Godey; Peter Stone)

Pressing my third nipple, it opens the delivery entrance to the magical land of Narnia (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

Pressing His Suit (1915)

Oleo Oil Pressing (1901)

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

Books

• Caruso St John Architects: Knitting Weaving Wrapping Pressing (reference)

• Forever Flowers: A Flower Lover's Guide to Selecting, Pressing, and Designing (reference)

• Horary Astrology: The History and Practice of Astro-Divination: The Venerable Art of Answering Pressing Personal Questions Based on the Planets' Po (reference)

• Looping Q & A : 72 practical Answers to your Most Pressing Questions (reference)

• Multiage Q & A : 101 Practical Answers to Your Most Pressing Questions (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Pressing Laverie Libre Service (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Pressing On (reference)

• Pressing Toward the Mark (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Sable SA850C Professional 24K Gold Plated Pressing Comb (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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This is a series of 16 photos demonstrating the 16 steps of a clinical breast examination. The steps are as follows: 1) arms in normal position 2) arms on hips 3) pressed forward elbows 4) pressed forward 5) arms overhead 6) arms overhead 7) arms raised and pressing down 8) exam of cervical nodes 9) exam of supraclavicular 10) infraclavicular 11) axilla 12) exam of breast 13) axilla 14) breast exam 15) exam of nipple 16) exam of nipple for discharge. Credit: Photogroup (photographer).

Grinding and pressing crude spermaceti for removal of taut-pressed oil. Interior view of oil refinery. Filling bottles with sperm oil. In: "Aquatic Products in Arts and Industries" by Charles H. Stevenson. Report of the Commissioner for the Year Ending June 30, 1902. P. 200, Plate 14. Credit: Fisheries.

Detail view of tops of upstream arch barrels. Photograph by Jack E. Boucher, Summer 1971. (Reproduction Number: HAER, UTAH,18-SALCI,22-5) The development of the multiple-arch reinforced concrete dam by engineer John S. Eastwood took advantage of the inherent characteristics of an ancient building form to greatly reduce the needed mass of dams. Inclined, reinforced concrete barrel vaults transfer the weight of the impounded water to the ground through a series of buttresses. The downward pressure actually increases the stability of the dam by pressing it against its foundation, making it an ideal design for poor foundation conditions. Eastwood built similar dams throughout the world. Credit: Library of Congress.

[Moistening, pressing, and drying of tobacco by American Indians]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Occupational portrait of a man pressing cloth with iron. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pressing sorghum cane, Fuquay Springs, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pressing the cotton into a bale at gin. Hopson Plantation, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lamont Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Pressing room. Credit: Library of Congress.

Abbott Laboratories, 1350 Cote de Liesse, Montreal, Canada. Pill pressing room. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hamilton Watch Factory. Pressing jewels in settings. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

What must be done in the case? I answer; the fundamental law of nature being, that all, as much as may be, should be preserved, it follows, that if there be not enough fully to satisfy both, viz, for the conqueror's losses, and children's maintenance, he that hath, and to spare, must remit something of his full satisfaction, and give way to the pressing and preferable title of those who are in danger to perish without it. (Second Treatise of Government)

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

These are the motives which I have been pressing on you.

The bishop perceived it, time was pressing.

Stephen knelt down quickly pressing his beaten hands to his sides

The hard old head came out and tried to look at the pressing finger, and the legs waved wildly

In this course which our ancestors took there was a show of prudence at least, as if their principle were to satisfy the more pressing wants first

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

This tumor often disrupts vision by pressing on the optic nerve. (references)

Important advances in medicine have created new and pressing behavioral issues. (references)

Very commonly, hemifacial spasm is caused by a blood vessel pressing on the facial nerve. (references)

Business

Financing of leasing companies remains the most pressing problem. (references)

Japan is currently faced with a pressing challenge to find alternatives to expensive, long-term hospitalization. (references)

The ASC is also a strong participant in pressing corresponding authorities the need to regulate the information security systems. (references)

Civil Liberties

Peru

There were protests by workers asking for higher wages and demonstrations by disgruntled citizens pressing various social and economic demands. (references)

Economic History

Israel

One of Israel's most pressing environmental concerns - availability of sufficient clean water - is a key regional concern and a major factor in the Middle East Peace Process. (references)

Taiwan

The supply of unskilled workers remains relatively tight in consumer electronics, pottery, metal pressing, and public construction works. (references)

Human Rights

Thailand

It also discouraged relatives of victims from pressing for prosecution. (references)

Colombia

Cifuentes has been active in his role, publicly criticizing a wide variety of human rights violations, visiting massacre sites, and pressing for increased security and humanitarian assistance for affected communities. (references)

Moldova

Ilascu, who subsequently became a Romanian parliamentarian, is pressing the Government of Romania to work toward the release of his former colleagues. (references)

Indigenous People

Bangladesh

Larma stated that the various indigenous groups have been pressing for their rights separately, but the mission of this new organization, the Adibashi Adhikar Forum (Indigenous Peoples' Rights Forum), will be to press for those rights collectively. (references)

Minorities

Hungary

The country evaluation reports issued by the European Commission and the European Parliament both emphasized the pressing and urgent character of the Roma problem. (references)

Political Economy

RUSSIA

The Russian government in 2001 continued to pursue the course of market economic structural reforms outlined in the government's "Strategy of Development of the Russian Federation through 2010." Minister of Economic Development and Trade German Gref, whose Center for Strategic Research developed this reform plan, is pressing forward on its implementation. (references)

Women

Romania

A complicated criminal process discouraged domestic violence victims from pressing charges against perpetrators. (references)

Philippines

Some women's groups stated that courts' imposition of death sentences for rape convictions may inhibit some victims, particularly relatives of the accused, from pressing charges. (references)

Panama

A number of private women's rights groups concentrate on disseminating information about women's rights, countering domestic abuse, enhancing employment and other skills, and pressing for legal reforms. (references)

Worker Rights

Netherlands

Victims are allowed 3 months to consider pressing charges, and victims who do so are allowed to stay in the country until the judicial process is completed. (references)

Cyprus

In the Turkish Cypriot community, union officials alleged that various firms have been successful in establishing "company" organizations and then pressing workers to join these unions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In pressing together

The Lord pressing

Expressions using "pressing": be pressing ♦ hot pressing ♦ metal pressing ♦ need a lot of pressing ♦ open by pressing ♦ pressing need ♦ pressing paper ♦ steam pressing. Additional references.

Beginning with "pressing": pressing-cloth, pressing-rooms.

Ending with "pressing": button-pressing, cold-pressing, fast-pressing, record-pressing, test-pressing, wild-flower-pressing.

Afrikaans

dringend (urgent). (various references)

Albanian

hekurosje (ironing, press). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كي (so that), ‏ملح (corn, cure, demanding, exigent, imperative, imperious, importunate, importune, insistent, insisting, interfering, obsessive, pertinacious, salt, stringent, urgent), ‏مستعجل (accelerated, instant, quick, running, rushing, urgent), ‏لجوج (insistent), ‏وشيك (imminent), ‏تخليل (acetification, infiltration, pickling, preserving, souse), ‏على عجل (instant, overhastily, precipitately), ‏طارئ (adventitious, casual, contingency, emergency, fortuitous, imperious, incidental), ‏ضاغط (compressing, compressor, insistent, squeezing), ‏العصر. (various references)

Bulgarian 

сърдечен (cardiac, cheery, cordial, expansive, genial, hearty, kind, lusty, mellow, openhearted, warm), спешен (clamant, emergency, instant, necessitous, rush, speedy, urgent), неотложен (clamorous, exigent, immediate, instant, necessitous, urgent), непосредствен (direct, funky, immediate, instant), настойчив (aggressive, earnest, importunate, importune, insistent, persistent), натискане (jam, jamming, press), бърз (agile, brisk, dapper, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, forward, hasty, hurried, light-heeled, lively, natty, nippy, precipitate, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, ready, rush, sharp, slapdash, slippy, smart, spanking, speedy, sweeping, time-saving, urgent, wing-footed), близък (adjacent, akin, allied to, chummy, close, familiar, impendent, kindred, near, neighboring, neighbouring, next, nigh, pally, prospective, sister, solid, sympathetic, thick, toward). (various references)

Chinese 

逼人 (threatening), 迫切 (urgent), 迫 (to compel, to force, urgent), 緊迫 (urgent), 按 (Buttoned, buttoned-up, Buttoning, Had, HAS, have, Having, Pressed, press-up). (various references)

Czech

naléhavý (burning, dire, emergent, exhortative, exigent, immediate, imperative, importunate, insistent, instant, of great importance, stringent, urgent). (various references)

Danish

trængende (urgent). (various references)

Dutch

spoedeisend (urgent), dringend (emphatic, urgent), brandend (ablaze, afire, burning, urgent). (various references)

Esperanto

urĝa (urgent). (various references)

Finnish

puristus (compression, jam, pressure, squeeze), kiireellinen (hasty, prompt, speedy, urgent). (various references)

French

pressant (presser), pressage (to press). (various references)

German

Pressen (cutting, force, huddle, oppress, press, pressure, squeeze, squeezers, to huddle, to press, to squeeze), Pressung (compression, to press), Pressteil (metal pressing, pressed part), Pressling (blank, compact, optical blank), angelegentlich (eager, enthusiastic, insistent, urgent), bedrückend (aggrieving, depressing, heavy, oppressive), Blechumformen, drängend (elbowing, thronging, thrusting, urgent, urging), dringend (a matter of urgency, badly, compelling, compellingly, crying, desperately, exigent, imperative, imperatively, sorely, strenuous, strong, urgent, urgently), dringlich (urgent, urgently), Druck auf, Einpressen, Glätten (even, face, iron, make smooth, neaten, plane, polish, polish up, sleek, smooth, smooth away, smooth out, straight out, to smooth), akut (acute, urgent), Keltern (to press), vordringlich (urgent), Rohling (blank, brute, ruffian), Satinage, Stanzen (emboss, press, pressings, punch, punching, stamp), Streckgang (prestretching), Tiefziehen (bossing, embossing, stamping), Trotten (jog, lollop, lollop along, plod, shamble, to jog, to trot, tootle, trail, trot), Kümpeln (dishing). (various references)

Greek 

πρεσσάρισμα, αντίτυπο δίσκου, αβαθής κοίλανση (dishing), λιθοκόλληση, επείγων (exigent, instant, strenuous, urgent), φορτικόσ (burdensome, cumbersome, cumbrous, importunate, obtrusive), τύπωμα οπτικών (blank, optical blank), πιεστικόσ (coercive, compulsive), κοίλανση (bossing, embossing), στιλβούργηση, σατινάρισμα (glazing), συμπίεση του πλακούντα, συμπίεση ελασμάτων, συμπιεσμένο τεμάχιο (metal pressing, pressed part), έκθλιψη (elision), πίεση (coercion, compulsion, press, pressure, squeezing, stress). (various references)

Haitian Creole

près. (various references)

Hebrew 

עסוי (extraction, kneading, massage, rubdown, squeezing), הלחצה, האצה (acceleration, exhortation, hurrying, urging), דחיקה (push, thrust), דחוף (express, imperious, instant, urgent), גהוץ (ironing), סחיטה (extortion, squeeze, squeezing, wringing), סרהוב (anxiety, urging). (various references)

Hungarian

vasalás (armour, crease, hinge, iron mounting, ironing, reinforcement, tramp), nyomás (cramp, impression, load, press, pressure, stress, tension). (various references)

Indonesian

penekanan (accentuation, pressuring, stressing). (various references)

Italian

pressione (compression, impaction, oppressiveness, press, pressure, printing, push, strain, stress, thrust), pressatura (cubing, pelleting), prodotto pressato, pezzo di metallo stampato (metal pressing, pressed part), spermitura (to press), scottante (delicate), sbozzo (blank, briar root block, coquille, curl, optical blank, wood block), stiratura (ironing), urgente (instant, urgent), torchiatura, cilindratura (calender, calendering, rolling), moulage, lavoro alla pressa, incassatura, incalzante, importuno (clamorous, importunate, intrusive, meddlesome, obtruder, obtrusive, officious, teaser, troublesome), imbutitura (bossing, embossing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

緊急 (emergency, urgent). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おおいそぎ (urgent), しきゅう (a walk, allowance, base on balls, Emperor's coffin, four balls, hit a batter by pitching a ball, payment, urgent, uterus, womb), きゅうはくした (imminent, urgent), きんきゅう (emergency, urgent), きんせつ (adjacent, adjoin, neighboring, urgent), せつじつ (acute, compelling, earnest, serious, severe, urgent), せっぱくした (imminent, urgent), とうめん (east face, east side, facing the east, impending, the east, urgent), てづめ (urging). (various references)

Korean 

누름 (Clicking). (various references)

Manx

preaysagh (pressed). (various references)

Norwegian

inntrengende (urgent). (various references)

Pig Latin

essingpray.(various references)

Portuguese

urgente (burning, clamant, exigent, immediate, imperious, urgent, urgently). (various references)

Romanian

presare (depression, jam, nip, press, push), presant (importunate, urgent), urgent (clamorous, early, emergent, exigent, fast, grave, immediate, immediately, imperious, importunate, instant, special, urgent), tescuire, stãruitor (arduous, assiduous, constant, dogged, firm, instant, instantly, patient, persevering, perseveringly, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, pleading, pushing, steadfast, steady, stubborn, tenacious, trusty, urgent, zealous), refulare (repression), insistent (adhesive, assertive, assiduous, clamant, importunate, insistent, insistently, instant, pushing, urgent, urgently), care apasã, apãsãtor (burdensome, hard, harsh, heavy, importunate, incumbent, onerous, oppressive, overwhelmingly, severe, tormenting, torturing, trying, unbearable). (various references)

Russian 

сжатие (clutch, compression, constriction, constringency, contraction, grasp, jam, nip, pinch, pressure, shrinkage, squeeze), штамповка (stamping), неотложный (clamorous, urgent), насущный (urgent), настоятельный (clamorous, instant), нажимать неотложный, прессование. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

peglanje (ironing), hitan (emergency, exigent, express, fleet, hasty, imperative, must, rush, urgent). (various references)

Spanish

urgente (express, immediate, imperative, urgent), satinado (glazed, satin, satiny), prensado (crabbing, cubing, pelleting). (various references)

Swedish

tryckande (close, muggy, oppressive, pushful, pushing, sultry, sweltering), enträgen (importunate, insistent, urgent). (various references)

Turkish

presleme (stamping), plak (album, gramophone record, platter, record), zımbalama, sıkma (clasp, constriction, extrusion, gripping, harassment, squeeze, squeezing, wring), sıkıştırma (compression, importunity, incarceration, push, squeeze), sıkıştıran (compressive), ivedi (burning, crying, hasty, hurry up, hustle, posting, urgent), basma (calico, chintz, cotton print, print, printed cloth, printing), baskılayıcı (repressive), acil (crying, direful, exigent, immediate, importunate, insistent, instant, urgent), acele (bustle, discomposedly, dispatch, early, expedition, fast, flying, haste, hastily, hasty, hotfoot, hurried, hurriedly, hurry, hurry up, in a hurry, in haste, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitate, press, quick, rapid, rush, speedy, swift, too previous, urgency, urgent, whirl), acíl (urgent), ısrarlı (clamant, constant, insistent, persistent, steadfast, urgent). (various references)

Turkmen 

mцhletli (urgent). (various references)

Ukrainian

стиск (clutch), стиснення (grip, nip, pinch, shrinkage, squeeze, wring), штампування (stamping), штамповка, копія (carbon, copy, counterpart, duplicate, duplication, edition, image, imitation, manifold, picture, replication, similitude, transcript, transcription), витиск, невідкладний (exigent, speedy), наполегливий (aggressive, emphatic, emphatical, importune, insistent, obstinate, patient, perseverant, persevering, persistent, sedulous, tenacious, unremitting, urgent), пресування (pressure), пресинг, поспішний (hasteful, hasty, hurried, ill-judged, precipitate, precipitous, premature, previous, snap). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thúc bách (clamant), nài ép, cấp thiết gấp nài nỉ, cấp bách (burning, exigent, imperative, imperious, instant, rush). (various references)

instantem. (various references)

urgent. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pressing": pressingly, pressings. (additional references)

Words ending with "pressing": compressing, decompressing, depressing, derepressing, expressing, hotpressing, immunosuppressing, impressing, oppressing, outpressing, overcompressing, overimpressing, reexpressing, repressing, suppressing. (additional references)

Words containing "pressing": depressingly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pressing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: peeesing, Persigny, Pessagno, Pessin, Prasong, prazosin, presin, presling, pressn, presson, Preussag, prising. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: springes.

-1 letter: ingress, pingers, resigns, signers, singers, snipers, springe, springs.

-2 letters: genips, gneiss, gripes, pinger, pisser, prises, reigns, renigs, repins, resign, resins, rinses, ripens, sering, serins, signer, singer, singes, sirens, sniper, snipes, speirs, spiers, spines, spires, sprigs, spring.

-3 letters: genip, girns, grins, gripe, grips, peins, penis, peris, piers, pines, pings, pirns, press, pries, prigs, prise.

+1 letter: aspersing, grapiness, preassign, pressings, repassing, resprings, speerings, springers.

+2 letters: bedsprings, depressing, dispersing, expressing, grumpiness, impressing, oppressing, percussing, persisting, pingrasses, preassigns, precessing, pressingly, pressuring, processing, professing, progestins, repressing, serpigines, springiest.

+3 letters: angiosperms, asparagines, compressing, fingerposts, gingersnaps, graphicness, grapinesses, headsprings, hotpressing, outpressing, overpassing, panegyrists, paragenesis, plasterings, preassigned, preblessing, progressing, progression, redisposing, respellings, serpiginous, sporogonies, springheads, springhouse, springiness, springtides, springtimes, supergiants, superposing, superseding, supersinger, superstring, supervising, suppressing, topdressing, trespassing, uprightness, wellsprings, whisperings, wingspreads.