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NOUN | 1 | pressure, pressure level, force per unit area | The force applied to a unit area of surface |
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2 | pressure | A force that compels | |
3 | pressure, press, pressing | The act of pressing | |
4 | pressure, imperativeness, insistence, insistency, press | The state of urgently demanding notice or attention | |
5 | pressure, pressure sensation | The somatic sensation of pressure | |
6 | pressure | An oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress | |
VERB | 1 | pressure, coerce, hale, squeeze, force | To cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city" |
2 | pressure, blackmail, blackjack | Exert pressure on someone through threats |
Sounds | preh'sher |
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Rhymes | Ashur, Berkshire, censure, and 32 more rhymes in sher at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | The force applied to a unit area of surface. Measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit). |
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Examples | "the compressed gas exerts an increased pressure" |
Synonyms | pressure level, force per unit area |
Narrower | blood pressure; gas pressure; head; hydrostatic head; intraocular pressure; oil pressure; osmotic pressure; radiation pressure, corpuscular-radiation pressure; sound pressure, instantaneous sound pressure; suction; vapor pressure, vapour pressure |
Broader | physical phenomenon |
Verbs | pressurize, pressurise; pressurize, pressurise; pressurize, pressurise; press |
Meaning | A force that compels. |
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Examples | "the public brought pressure to bear on the government" |
Broader | force |
Verbs | pressure; press; pressure |
Meaning | The act of pressing. The exertion of pressure. |
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Examples | "he used pressure to stop the bleeding" |
Synonyms | press, pressing |
Narrower | impression; compression, compressing; decompression, decompressing |
Broader | push, pushing |
Verbs | press |
Meaning | The state of urgently demanding notice or attention. |
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Synonyms | imperativeness, insistence, insistency, press |
Broader | urgency |
Verbs | pressure; press; pressure |
Meaning | The somatic sensation of pressure. |
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Examples | "the sensitivity of his skin to pressure and temperature was normal" |
Synonyms | pressure sensation |
Broader | somesthesia, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation |
Meaning | An oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress. |
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Broader | distress |
Meaning | To cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city". |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE; Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something |
Model | They pressure him to write the letter |
Synonyms | coerce, hale, squeeze, force |
Cause to | act, move |
Narrower | turn up the heat, turn up the pressure; drive; bludgeon; steamroller, steamroll; squeeze for; dragoon, sandbag, railroad; terrorize, terrorise; bring oneself |
Broader | compel, oblige, obligate |
Nouns | pressure; pressure |
Meaning | Exert pressure on someone through threats. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
Synonyms | blackmail, blackjack |
Broader | influence, act upon, work |
Nouns | pressure; pressure |