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pressure
English
Etymology
From Old French, from Latin press?ra.
Pronunciation
- enPR: pr?sh?-?(r), IPA(key): /?p????(?)/
- (UK) IPA(key): [?p???.?(?)]
- (US) IPA(key): [?p???.?]
- Rhymes: -???(?)
- Hyphenation: pres?sure
Noun
pressure (countable and uncountable, plural pressures)
- A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
- Apply pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding.
- A contrasting force or impulse of any kind
- the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.
- Distress.
- 1649, Eikon Basilike
- My people's pressures are grievous.
- October 31, 1708, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd before the Queen at St. James's
- In the midst of his great troubles and pressures.
- 1649, Eikon Basilike
- Urgency
- the pressure of business
- (obsolete) Impression; stamp; character impressed.
- (physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area.
Synonyms
- (distress): affliction, grievance
- (urgency): press
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
pressure (third-person singular simple present pressures, present participle pressuring, simple past and past participle pressured)
- (transitive) To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.
- Do not let anyone pressure you into buying something you do not want.
Translations
See also
- (units of pressure): pascal (Pa); bar, barye (Ba); pounds per square inch (psi, lbf/in2, lb/in2), torr, mmHg, atmosphere (atm)
Anagrams
- perusers
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: pressurent, pressures
Verb
pressure
- first-person singular present indicative of pressurer
- third-person singular present indicative of pressurer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of pressurer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of pressurer
- second-person singular imperative of pressurer
Latin
Participle
press?re
- vocative masculine singular of press?rus
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin press?ra.
Noun
pressure f (oblique plural pressures, nominative singular pressure, nominative plural pressures)
- pressure (action or result of pressing)
Descendants
- ? English: pressure
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nonrigid
English
Alternative forms
- non-rigid
Etymology
non- +? rigid
Adjective
nonrigid (not comparable)
- not rigid; flexible
- (of an airship) That maintains its shape only by internal gas pressure.
Related terms
- nonrigidity
Noun
nonrigid (plural nonrigids)
- (aviation) An airship that maintains its shape only by internal gas pressure.
Synonyms
- blimp
Hypernyms
- airship
- dirigible
Coordinate terms
- rigid
- semirigid
Usage notes
- dirigible is not a synonym, but a hypernym; it refers to all steerable self-propelled airships, whether rigid, semirigid, or nonrigid.
Anagrams
- Girondin
nonrigid From the web:
- what non-rigid transformation
- non rigid means
- what non-rigid
- what does nonrigid mean
- what are nonrigid transformations
- what does nonrigid
- what is non rigid in geometry
- non rigid motions
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